Indoor-Outdoor Living: Tiles That Work From Inside to Out
Indoor-outdoor living is quintessentially Southern California. Creating a seamless connection between interior and exterior spaces can make a home feel larger, more cohesive, and more connected to its surroundings. Rather than being a seasonal material choice, indoor-outdoor continuity is an architectural and design decision that depends on the style of the home and how […]
Famosa Summer Recap: New Collections & What’s Ahead
Summer at the Famosa showroom has a rhythm to it — designers pulling samples for upcoming projects, new materials making their way into the showroom, and homeowners stopping in to explore materials they’ve been considering for their spaces. It’s a good moment to look back at what’s recently arrived and look ahead to what’s […]
Fall 2026 at Famosa: The Materials Defining This Season’s Best Projects
Fall is the most consequential design season in Orange County’s luxury residential market. The projects that have been in planning through summer are now moving to selection and specification. Designers are finalizing material choices. Clients are making decisions that have been deferred since June. The showroom visits that happen between September and […]
The Famosa Visit: How the Best Designer-Client Projects Actually Start
There is a specific kind of appointment that happens at Famosa Tile — the kind where a designer has already told their client a little about the showroom, the client has said yes to coming in mostly to humor the schedule, and then something shifts about thirty seconds after they walk through […]
Famosa’s Most-Specced Collections: What Designers Are Choosing in 2026
Every design season has a handful of materials that show up again and again in the strongest projects. Walk the Famosa showroom floor in 2026 and a pattern emerges quickly — not one material, but a consistent thread running through the selections designers keep returning to. The Thread: Texture, Warmth, and Material […]
The Interior Designer’s Complete Checklist for Tile and Stone Specification
Every interior designer who has been through a complex tile and stone specification knows the experience: the material selection goes beautifully, the installation goes sideways, and somewhere between the showroom and the completed project, a decision that seemed simple turns out not to have been. The gap is almost always not the […]
Why Orange County’s Top Interior Designers Keep Coming Back to Famosa Tile in Costa Mesa
There are things that can be explained about Famosa Tile in Costa Mesa — the selection, the sourcing, the team, the showroom experience. There are things that can only be understood by walking in. The designers who walk in for the first time almost always say the same thing, in some form: I […]
Textured Tile in 2026: Zellige, Dimensional Tile, and the Handmade Revolution
There is a texture problem in tile right now. And it is entirely the good kind. For much of the past decade, the dominant tile specification in Southern California luxury residential design was large-format, polished, and relentlessly smooth. Surfaces that reflected light perfectly, aligned seam-to-seam without variation, and looked identical from one end […]
How to Specify Tile for a Luxury Primary Bathroom: A Designer’s Guide
The primary bathroom is the most personal room in any home. It is the room the homeowner begins and ends every day in. It is the room that, more than any other, is designed entirely for the people who live there rather than for guests or for show. And for that reason, it […]
Terracotta Is Back: Why Southern California Designers Are Specifying It Now
There are materials that trend. And there are materials that return. Terracotta is not trending. It is returning — to its rightful place as one of the most beautiful and emotionally resonant floor and wall materials in residential design. And the designers who are specifying it now are not chasing a moment. […]