3.75 m2+ antique ceramic vegetal themed floor with half size borders

One of three floors reclaimed from the same house, built around 1905 in Tournai, Belgium, a small antique ceramic floor totalling 3.75m2+ / 41.6 sq. ft.

The palette of the floor is cool, in leaf greens, mid blue and white on a dove grey slip and the design is bold; strongly vegetal in form but geometric and navigational when opening out over its surface. The field tiles are framed by a 14cm x 7cm half size border with leaf green now absent for a stronger presence of greys.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SAME SIZE BORDER TILES IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

The patina of the floor is rich; the 1.5m2 layout in the photographs being an accurate representation of the whole floor. There are small chips and edge nibbles on some tiles, all groutable and all part of their antique charm. Indeed, each of these 14cm sq., 15mm thick tiles has been individually quality controlled having been painstakingly cleaned of their old mortar, grouts, surface dirt and wax one by one. The results in the photos are self-evident.

Being a highly fired tile the floor can be re-laid inside or outside of the home as high summer and sub-zero winter temperatures will not affect the tiles robustness.

We would be happy to evaluate a potential fit for the floor, without obligation, from a sketch with key dimensions.

Tile quantities – give or take one or two:-

FIELD TILES – 170 tiles – 3.4m2 / 36.6 sq. ft

SMALL BORDER TILES – 45 tiles plus 3 corners – 0.47m2 / 5 sq.ft or 6.3 linear metres / 20.7 linear ft.

NOTE:-
Antique tiles were most commonly made in single or two tile moulds. Before current computer automation methods their moulds were made my hand and the colour slips mixed by eye. Kiln temperatures could also be variable, as could the firing time. The result is that often tiles display subtle size and thickness variations and there can be tonal variations in colours, owing to the slip mixing and/or firing time. All of this makes these handmade tiles unique and adds to their charm. Some floors display their subtle variations in size and tones, some not, but when photographing we always take a random section of the floor so that it is representative of the whole. A tiler should always dry lay a section of the tiles to familiarise himself with them before starting to fix lay.