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Rex Ray Rox! Doesn’t he?
We’re very proud of our collaboration with acclaimed fine artist Rex Ray.
Since 2011 we’ve been developing tile products using his uniquely retro and modern designs. His iconic work is easily recognizable. Let’s just say it’s cool.
We first introduced 4×12 glass subway tiles in a black and white newsprint collage design we call Type Tiles. They are popular across the country with retail, hospitality and residential clients alike. They’ve even been featured on HGTV in a Kitchen Cousins episode in NYC.
The lastest release of our Rex Ray Studio for modwalls collection is a line of handmade matte ceramic tile in 2 designs and seven modern colors. The MMM’s and Rox are getting lots of attention. A bit edgy, a bit bold and so very Rex Ray.
All of our Rex Ray Studio for modwalls tile designs are handmade in the USA. See the entire collection along with all of our other American made tile designs here on our website:
Modwalls American Made Tile Collections.
At modwalls we’re “Making Tile Modern” with unique and colorful collections inspired by mid-century design. We offer delightful customer service and a hassle free online buying experience for retail and trade customers. www.modwalls.com We’re available by phone Monday-Friday from 9-5 Pacific time: 1-877-439-9734.
Find out more about Fine Artist Rex Ray on his website.
Plus Design + Plus Design + Plus Design…
Clayhaus for Modwalls® Plus Design Mosaics are now available in both 2″ and 4″ sizes!!!
PLUS, we couldn’t be more thrilled to add our Wheatgrass color to this super fun mix.
100% handcrafted in the USA, each individual tile is a unique piece of functional art. What size do you prefer?
Modwalls 2″ Plus Design Mosaic shown in Milk, Splash, and Brine.
Modwalls 4″ Plus Design Mosaic shown in Milk, Splash, Brine, amd Wheatgrass.
Maybe you prefer solid colors?
But the colorful regulated mix is so fun!
Loving all the different color combinations and pattern possibilities! Depending on the colors you wish to chose, we can assemble a blend or pattern just for you! By the way, custom colors are also available.
2″ Plus Design Mosaics are $52.95* per 1.06 square foot sheet
4″ Plus Design Mosaics are $45.95* per 1.06 square foot sheet
*Trade pricing available by phone @ 877-439-9734*
Modwalls® is making tile modern™ with colorful and unique designs that are in stock and available for purchase online 24/7 at modwalls.com
Things that make you go MMM…
So here it is folks, our Rex Ray Studio MMM Tile in the colors you voted for!!!
We are SUPER stoked to get this in production, but we wanted to get some additional feedback from you – of course.
We’re calling it MMM because it’s just sooooo yummy, but if you have a better (*insert air quotes here* =) product name for them, we’re definitely open to suggestions… 
Thanks SO MUCH in advance for your help and we can’t wait to hear your suggestions!!!
Hugs,
Modwalls is making tile modern with colorful and unique designs that are in stock and available for purchase online 24/7 at modwalls.com
Can you create cool modern tile designs on a budget?
I’m here to say yes! Cool modern tile design on a budget is achievable.
Take this for example:
I recently had the opportunity to spend a weekend at a cool mid-century hotel right in my own town.
photo credit Destination360
The Santa Cruz Dream Inn has been a local institution since the early 1960’s and was recently purchased and renovated by the Joie de Vivre hotels corporation. You can get the whole scoop here.
Being the huge fan of mid-century design that I am, I was loving all of the colorful modern touches everywhere I looked.
The lobby with its color-blocked carpet and beachy cool style sets the tone to let you know that the sand and boardwalk are just steps away.
When you are in the room, with its soft palette and color-blocked curtains (Are you sensing a theme here?) you become instantly relaxed by the sound of waves washing up on the sand right outside.
photo credit Orbitz
We were in one of the tower rooms on the 5th floor. From this vantage point, looking outside to a wide expanse of water, you can imagine yourself to be anywhere: Malibu, the South of France, an Ocean liner or in our case 15 minutes from home but seemingly a world away.
The décor had plenty of interesting elements, like this cool green lamp that I’m coveting.
And being a tile person, you know I was most intrigued by the bathroom. This is where the budget conscious tile design was hanging out. They used mad popular color-blocking to maximum effect with a combination of 2” and 4” ceramic tiles in a lively mix of bright white, yellow and orange along with a 2” matte taupe/gray tile on the floors. So good and so economical at the same time with big design impact! Feast upon it for yourself:
This is ordinary ceramic tile in standard square sizes. The type of tile you may even be able to find in your local big box hardware store. Nevertheless when installed in this way it becomes artful and perfectly befitting the modern, mid-century setting. You can achieve this modern color-blocked design with just about any tile manufacturer’s lowest priced tile, such as our own Brio® glass mosaic collection.
Our stylish weekend was topped off by a full moon over the Santa Cruz harbor and we had the perfect vantage point from which to view it in all its glory:
What’s not to love about that? I’ll be back Dream Inn- stay dreamy!
You may also like the tile and color-blocking in this related post. Or this one
Modwalls is making tile modern with colorful and unique designs that are in stock and available for purchase online 24/7 at modwalls.com.
American Made Tile
This year we’ve introduced two new tile lines and both are handmade here in the good old U. S. of A!
We rolled out our revamped website this weekend (yay!), and we have a whole page dedicated to our USA made tile. These collections include our Rex Ray Studio Lush® 4×12 TYPE glass subway tiles and our Clayhaus for modwalls® super fresh ceramic subway tiles and ceramic mosaic “Plus” tiles.
We plan to add many new additions to the American Made Tile collection in the next couple of years, cause we know USA tile is where it’s at!
Check out our American Made Tile page here, and please let us know what you think of our revamped website design!
Ceram-mixed
We love a tile blend.
It’s kind of our “thing,” and for years we’ve been stocking rockin’ tile blends in our Brio® vitreous glass tile line, our Lush® glass tile line, our ModDotz™ porcelain penny round tile collection, and we’ve been offering custom tile blends with our Brio® tile so our fabulous customers can create the tile blend of their dreams.
We recently launched our first ceramic tile collection and we’ve been so thrilled that the majority of our customers have choose to create blends!
Our 2×8 ceramic subway tiles are sold by the square foot and our customers can purchase as many square feet as they’d like. We have seven colors in-stock and any talented tile installer can turn those individual colors into a completely custom ceramic tile blend.
We also carry ceramic “Plus” Mosaic tiles and we offer a “Regulated Mix” of the three colors we stock. This unique blend has been hot hot HOT with our retail customers and designers alike.
Take a look at the sweet installation photos we’ve received so far:
A funky-cool kitchen with our ceramic Plus Mosaic "Regulated Mix."
This gorgeous kitchen with all 7 colors of our 2x8 ceramic tiles was featured in At Home in Arkansas magazine.
A bathroom with modwalls 2x8 ceramic tile Brine, Milk and Licorice matte.
Fish eye view of the bathroom with modwalls 2x8 ceramic tile Brine, Milk and Licorice matte.
This little mixer looks adorable against this kitchen backsplash with modwalls 2x8 ceramic tile colors Splash, Milk, Brine, Wheatgrass, Zest, Cookie and Licorice Matte.
One happy kitchen backsplash with modwalls 2x8 ceramic tile blend.
Another view of the super unique Plus Mosaic "Regulated Mix" ceramic tile blend kitchen backsplash.
So what do you think… are ceramic tile blends your new favorite?!
Designer Spotlight: Playhouse Design Group
Holy moly, we are pumped about this Designer Spotlight! We’re talking crazy excited, doing a happy-dance, jump-kick-into-the-splits type of feeling. And why, you ask? Well, that would be because of the super sleek set of photos we received from ultra-cool Playhouse Design Group out of Seattle,Washington. Scroll down and let your eyes feast on the majesty. Warning: These delicious photos will stuff you with delight; you’ll need to walk it off afterward.
A Call to Color Lovers: Please Help Us Choose Our New Rex Ray Ceramic Colors!
Ok, it’s game time.
We need your opinion and we need it now! =)
Please help us select the best colors for our new Rex Ray Studio Ceramic tiles. We’ve provided a few choices below and we’d love to get your take on them!
We’re sharing these babies on our Facebook page where you can “vote” for your favorite option. Please take a look and vote on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/modwallstile
You can also post a comment to let us know which option is your favorite.
Thank you SO MUCH in advance — we appreciate your help!
The top photo shows our Rex Ray Studio ceramic tiles in white and the bottom photo shows the 4 color families we’ve selected. Click on the image to see a larger view.
Do you have a preference? Is it #1, #2, #3 or #4?
Our graphic designer found a few images to help you envision these color families. Take a look below and then please tell us what you think!
Option #1:
Option #2:
Option #3:
Option #4:
Sooo… Whatcha think?!
And if you like one color more than another within one of the four “color families,” please let us know – don’t be shy!
THANK YOU!
#Winning!
Happy New Year to our tile loving friends!
We’re starting this one out right… by giving away some cash or store credit to three of our awesome customers. They deserve it!
Our 4th Quarterly Photo Contest on Facebook ended on December 31 and it was definitely our BEST CONTEST YET. We ask our customers to send photos of their completed tile installations and everyone seriously delivered! Just look at this rockin’ photo album to see all of the entries: Click Here.
We’ve been truly overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response we’ve received… We’re definitely having a “They like us… they really like us!” type of moment here!
So thanks to you, our customers, our friends and fans, for every bit of your support in 2011. It means A LOT.
And now for the good stuff– it’s time to announce our 3 Facebook Quarterly Photo Contest Winners!
Coming in hot with 215 “votes” (likes), 15 shares, and 34 comments is THIS PHOTO of a sweet shower including three of our tiles: a Brio® 3/4″ mosaic glass tile “Shimmer” blend on the shower walls, our ModRocks™ Recycled Glass Pebbles on the shower floor, and our CorkDotz™ Cork Penny Round tile on the bathroom floor. It’s an exquisite installation done by the professionals at Tarkus Tile in Lehi, Utah. Thanks again for the photos and congrats for your win, Tarkus Tile!
With a stellar score of 152 “votes” (likes), 11 shares and 21 comments, 2nd place goes to this absolutely adorable photo of our ModDotz™ Orbit white, blue and orange porcelain penny round tile blend.
Adorable, right?
And then there’s our 3rd place winner, which happens to be one of our all-time favorite photos (we’re allowed to have favorites!). THIS PHOTO of our Clayhaus for modwalls® 2×8 ceramic subway tiles in the colors Brine, Milk and Licorice Matte is our 3rd and final winner with 69 “votes,” 10 comments and 1 share.
Hello, Dream Bathroom.
Like all of our Facebook Quarterly Photo Contest winners, these peeps will get their choice of $50 cash or $100 store credit, and all they had to do was show off their gorgeous tile!
Again, thanks to everyone who has showed us some love in 2011! Here’s hoping for an even bigger and brighter 2012 for everyone!
Subway Tile Face-Off!
In this corner we have modwalls® subway tiles in sizes 4×12, 3×6, 2×8, 1×4, 1×2 and 1/2×2 all installed OFFSET with a BRICK joint installation:
Lush 4x12 Cloud glass subway tile.
Lush 3x6 Haze.
2x8 Milk ceramic subway tile installed vertically with a brick joint.
Our 2x8 subway tiles installed horizontally and brick joint.
Lush 1x4 Sunset mini glass subway tile.
Classic Lush 1x2 Fog Bank.
And in this corner, the same subway tiles from modwalls® all installed STACKED or STRAIGHT joint:
Lush 4x12 Vapor glass subway tile installed stacked or straight joint.
Lush 3x6 Reef glass subway tile installed vertically and stacked.
Our 2x8 ceramic subway tiles.
Lush 1x4 Lemongrass. It's sold on sheets with stacked tiles that are ready to install straight joint.
And our Lush 1/2x2 mini subway tile in the color Moss.
So, who wins in this battle royale?
Does your dream kitchen or bathroom include tiles that are offset, brick joint, or is stacked, straight joint tile more your style?
