Category: Industry Focus

Wood terminology gets used loosely, and the same word can describe several very different things. This guide explains the materials plainly, so you can read a specification and know what…

Kitchen layout decides how a room works long before anyone chooses a door colour. Get the arrangement right and an inexpensive kitchen feels excellent. Get it wrong and the most…

Tiles are one of the easier things to order and one of the easier things to get slightly wrong, because the problems only appear once the boxes are open and…

A hotel lobby has about fifteen seconds to tell a guest what kind of place they have arrived at. It also has to check people in efficiently, give them somewhere…

Engineered surfaces have largely replaced natural stone on worktops, and the choice now is usually between quartz and sintered stone. They look similar in a showroom and behave differently in…

Looking at finished bathrooms is the fastest way to work out what you actually like. The trouble with most inspiration is that it shows the picture without the decisions behind…

These two words are used interchangeably in shops and they describe genuinely different products. Choosing between them is one of the easier decisions in a project once you know what…

Furniture trends are worth watching for a practical reason. A piece that reads as current sells faster, photographs better and holds its value in a rental or a hotel room.…

A tile box carries more information than most people realise, printed in symbols and abbreviations that are never explained. Once you can read one, you can check in ten seconds…

Tile grading sounds like a technical detail and it is really a set of plain answers to practical questions. Will this survive the traffic. Will it stay put when wet.…