The Designer’s Guide to Outdoor Tile for Southern California
The outdoor living space has become one of the most requested — and most scrutinized — design areas in Southern California residential projects. For designers specifying tile for these spaces, the material conversation is fundamentally different from any interior application. Outdoors, the tile lives with the weather. With UV exposure, thermal cycling, foot […]
What Makes Famosa Tile Different? The 18-Year Story Behind Costa Mesa’s Anti-Tile Store
Most tile stores feel like tile stores. Fluorescent lights. Catalog binders. A salesperson who steers you toward whatever they have too much of in the back. Famosa Tile was designed to be the opposite of all of that. “I always wanted to create the anti-tile store,” says Josiah Lilly, the founder of Famosa […]
Zellige Tile 101: Everything Designers Need to Know
There is a tile that has been made by hand in Morocco for over a thousand years. It is imperfect by design. No two pieces are the same color, thickness, or surface finish. It reacts to light in a way that no other tile material on the market can replicate. And over the past several […]