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Stove Hearth, Story Tile - Wildlife
A corner project in my home.

This little potbelly stove is the stove that kept my grandfathers tack and tool room heated a hundred years ago. I built the hearth for it in our kitchen dinning area. The top of the hearth is broken tile with a 6" x 6" tumbled stone Grizzly Bear story tile, inlaid on the face panel, Also displayed, a coal bucket, kindling box and a wall shelf supporting two antique flat irons.

Bottom photograph, detail of hearth face panel.

A simple do-it-yourself project.

Dick

Bathroom Shower, Story Tile Mural
Mari Thomas called.

Found my website;and had to call. My husband and I have horses and love to take rides across the Michigan countryside. I am looking for a mural for our bathroom shower We discussed the Designers Choice Tile website and its contents. She liked the mural "Dads Spurs," the western boot, horseshoes and was trying to come up with something with horseback riders. She told me about rides they had taken and how much they enjoyed them. We talked about the color scheme of the bathroom and the shower area. I suggested that she let me work up an idea I had and I would e-mail her a layout in a day or two.
I e-mailed this layout to Mari.

E-mail Note.
Hi Mari,
Here is what I have come up with.
The outer rim of tile represents the 6" X 6" tile you have, the basic field tile of the shower. The mural frame is 4" X 4" tumbled stone across the top and down the sides, with a row of 6" X 6" tumbled stone across the bottom. The inner frame or matte, around the 24" X 12" "Two Riders" mural, is broken tile with the 4" X 16" spur mural and 2- 2" X 2" diagonal horseshoe tiles inset in the broken tile background.
LAYOUT

Hi Dick,
I received your e-mail. It looks really nice. I'll get back to you in a couple of days ....... I really like your work.

Thanks Mari

Next day

Hi Dick Thought I would e-mail you to let you know we really like the mural. Would like to get started on ordering if we could, So I called you today left a message with our phone number please either call or e-mail me back and let use know? Thank you very much. I love it.

Mari


Finished job.

Mari wrote,

"Hi Dick finally, here are the pictures. It looks great everyone loves your work. I love the bathroom and I'm very pleased with how it turned out

Thanks
Mari Thomas
Michigan

Kitchen Backsplash, Native American Mural
"Profound Silence " 24" X 12"
6" X 6" Tumbled Stone tile.

Dick,
got the tiles today and will send you a picture as soon as we get it installed. They look great, can't wait to get them on the wall.!!
Mike Coulter

Dick
here are the pics of the tile. The guy just finished about 10 minutes ago. We think we might extend it out on both sides. Haven't made our mind up on that. We love the tile we bought from you. We will try to send you some more business.
thanks again.

Mike & Linda Colter
Texas

"Kitchen Backsplash, Wildlife Mural
Grizzly" 12" X 12"
Tumbled Stone tile.

Dick,
Just a note to tell you thanks for the tile. Everyone loves the bears.

Karla Kendell
Utah

Kitchen Backsplash, Story Tile Mural
Hi,
I would like to get the tile mural I saw on the Designers Choice Tile website.
I like the Watering Longhorns and would like the 4 Ceramic tiles to be 8" x 8" and then have Ceramic tiles 4" x 4" surrounding it with the brands, use all different brands you have so the total size would be about 24" x 24" using the background color of Cornsilk and image color Doe.  (Four tile layout plus brands)
Thanks for your help I have been looking for western tile murals for months and finally found your site.  Looks great.

One more question,
I was wondering if you have two more 8" tiles that could be added to either side to make the mural a bit wider that would match the scene.  I am working with a wider rather than taller space and think a scene that was 24 x 16 would actually work better.  Let me know if you have something that would work with this watering longhorn scene. Drop the brands.

Thanks

Great, looks good.
Thanks for all your help.  I love your tiles and will pass on your website to other friends.


Hi,
I finally got the tile mural put up.  Here are pictures for your tiles.

They look great. Thanks for all your help on this.

Marsha Stromgren
Kansas

Kitchen Backsplash, Native American Mural

Dick--

Sorry it took so long. 
Love it--

 
Carolyn Campbell
Montana

Mural - 6" X 6" ceramic - 24" X 18"


Table - Tile Inlay, Native American Mural

I finally got a photo of the completed table.  She really enjoyed it and it fits so nicely into her decor.

Mural - 18" X 12" Ceramic Matte - Table Inlay - "Silent Night"

Thanks
Gerry Scheffalmaier
Tennesse


Kitchen Backsplash, Tile Mural - Native American

Danny did all the work himself except for your tiles of course. Thanks again we are so pleased and are very proud to show off you work

Mural - 24" X 18" Ceramic Matte Tile - "Silent Night"

Danny and Lavelle Granger, Alabama .

Hi

I was just looking at your web sight and would like to get a quote for some tiles I am interested in:

4-tile Watering Longhorn 2 color mural
Plus 1 x second left tile from the 4-tile longhorn story
Plus 1 x last on right tile from the 4-tile longhorn story
All tile 6"x6" ceramic
Background color marbled yam (16-1140), subject color Bison (18-1027)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Shirley Gilmour


Hi Dick

Just wanted to let you know we received our tiles, they are great!

It has been a pleasure doing business with you, not only is the product great but your service is excellent, the tiles were well packaged for delivery and they arrived a day earlier than expected.

Thank you.

Shirley Gilmour - Alberta, Canada

Kitchen Backsplash, Tile Mural - Western

Good morning Dick,

 I got the pictures and want the 12 x 18

Phone order

I talked to Jeff on the phone he wants to order the mural "Packstring" for his shower, but cant beside what size 24" X 18" - on 6" X 6" ceramic or 18" X 12" on 6" X 6" so we talked about it for a few minutes and I e-mailed his a couple of samples.

Hello again,

  Just wanted to let you know that I received the tile Monday, yesterday. And they look great and where not broken.

Thank you

Jeff Grove - Wyoming

The above mural, flies, fisherman and fish are all part of a bathroom, and shower installation in the Boulder, Colorado area.
Actual installation photos are not available. Project by Kochi-Baker Architect and Design, Colorado.

Hi:
...I have a log cabin and my bathroom theme is “bears”.
I am looking at having 3 - 6x6  white ceramic tile with #6027 on them (grizzly front).  I am going to have the paws going up my bathroom shower.  I am also looking at maybe a small mural with 4 across or 2 rows with 3 across with possibly #5017, 5018, 5019 and 5015 on the same 6x6 ceramic tile.
... The tile will be white and the bears in black. I am not looking for any other colors other than the black & white. 
If you have any other suggestions please let me know..

Thanks

Helen Simmons AZ


Notice of delivery.
Wow – wonderful.  I can’t wait to see them. We are going to our house this coming weekend and we will be putting them in.  I will send you pictures.
Thanks Much...I will be in touch. We may want to do this somewhere else in our house.


Hi Dick:

Thought you would like to see the finished product. My husband worked all weekend to get this in. We are so happy with it. It turned out better then I imagined.  Thanks again for the great work.  We love it!!!

Helen


May I display your project photos on the website?

Please do use the photos on your website. I look forward to seeing them. I will definitely use you in the future. We have a lot of house to do yet.

Thanks again!

Helen

Good Morning!
We are doing a backsplash in our mudroom in ceramic tile....We are interested in incorporating something like your #165 story line with moose that we saw on your website. We would certainly welcome your suggestions, ...
Thank you!
Madeline Potter - WY

Hi Dick -
...I know that I want the story line to be a man walking thru the cedars/willows and pine trees following 2 bull moose.... will contact you again.
Thanx so much for your help so far! Back to you soon!
Madeline

Good Morning, Dick!
We have finally made the color selections that were necessary to complete an order with you.... We very much like the background/terrain in the tile to be similar to your #165 ...Pine, willows, mountains. We'd like to capture the moment with 2 bull moose on one side of the story line, and a man's silhouette on the opposite side of the story line. We'd like the story line to be 7 - 6X6 tiles. We welcome your thoughts on this design.... We're very excited about this! Hope to hear from you soon.
Madeline Potter

HI Dick!
In reviewing our design here at the house, we'd like to add 2 more tiles to our order: The mirror images of men fly-fishing in your story line #242. We would just like the two tiles of the men silhouettes.... Go ahead and add that to your total when you email the contract for the order.
Thanks so much!
Madeline Potter

(Sample Layout)
I LOVE IT! And you even got a smile out of Dave! Write up the contract and we'll send it back asap. Wonderful work, Dick. Thanks so much!
Madeline

Dick:
...The tiles are perfect - I'm getting endless comments!
Thanx for making this project so special!
Attached Photos
Madeline

Hi,
Im from Alberta looking to create a design with "Western" ceramic tiles on top of our stairs. (Just on the top riser) The stairs are 43" wide and the 6 inch high tiles would work.  Some ideas in mind, running horses, cowboys chasing
cows, actually anything western.  We will be installing walnut laminate on the rest of the stairs so something in the browns would be good color.  I have looked at your website and love the designs!  Looking for some ideas that are
eye-catching!!!!

Thanks,
Sue Zieffle
Alberta, Canada

Thanks for the prompt reply!
Wow! That's cool! 

Hi,
It sure is hard to decide but thinking about the spurs and then maybe our brands on each side 7 over quarter circle(hooks up), spurs from website 4.25" x 17", then Box X (x in middle-solid lines around).  The letters could be brown with white background.  And if we need more tiles to fill the 43", then just some plain ones on each side would be fine.  Would this be possible?
Thanks!
Sue

Hi,
Thought I would send the final look-see attached.  We finished Christmas Day and it looks great!  Not too hard to do.  :) 

Thanks and Happy Easter to you & your family!
 
Rodger called and ordered the Texas Longhorn story line, "Dads Spurs" and wanted to know if I could reproduce his livestock brand.

Email from Rodger
Dick,
This is the finished project, I really like how they turned out.

Rodger Wagner , WA

Rodger made this towel bar and paper holder for his new bathroom so if any of you like what you see and want a set, let me know and I will get you in touch with Rodger.

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