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Mission Stone & Tile is based in Nashville, TN, with a store in Chattanooga. Â Mission is one of my newer and more favorite discoveries, with unique tile offerings such as its Curve Appeal scalllop-shaped tiles and its Hex Appeal hexagonal Carrara Basalt tiles. Â Besides those two stores, Mission sells its products online, with free shipping for orders of $1;000 or more.More »
Floor, wall, medallion, natural stone, and resin borders from a Fullerton, CA-based tile company, with branches in Texas and Illinois.More »
I'm not sure how Nemo Tile escaped my notice for so long. Nemo, based in New York, sports a gorgeous website with tons of great tile ideas--porcelain, stone, engineered. Even wood, for heaven's sakes. Nemo is a must-see site.More »
Florida Tile must be located in...Florida, right? Wrong. Their corporate headquarters are in Lexington, Kentucky, with a manufacturing and distribution base in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. For a half-century, Florida Tile, Inc. has been making porcelain and ceramic wall tile, as well as natural stone and decorative glass and metal tiles. In our picture gallery of diagonal tile flooring, we feature a number of Florida Tile products.More »
Hey, how can you go wrong with Italian lineage for a tile company? Marazzi provides porcelain stoneware, glazed porcelain, through-body porcelain, glass, and glazed ceramic tile for both commercial and residential use. Even though Marazzi doesn't sell directly to the homeowner--and few tile manufacturers do, anyway--they haven't forgotten our needs with their nice, informative website. Marazzi distributes to both independent retailers and to the big home improvement centers like The Home Depot.More »
Merola Tile provides porcelain and natural stone tiles for kitchens, bathrooms, walls, and floors.
What else? Merola Tile provides tile to name retailers, so don't expect to buy any tile through them directly. In fact, I suspect their website is mainly geared toward their big retail clients, and not really for the homeowner. So, you won't find a lot of information there.More »
Florim USA, formerly called American Florim, is based in Clarksville, Tennessee. It's the U.S. offshoot of Italian tilemaker Florim Group. They call their tile "Italian tile made in the U.S.A."More »
As the name says, Oceanside is all about glass tile. Since 1992, Oceanside has supplied glass tile for high profile commercial and residential tiling applications. They have a product gallery worth checking out, as you can search images by keyword (such as "backsplash") and pull up a large number of photos.More »
This Massachusetts-based tile company, in business since 2000, imports premium French, Italian, and Spanish hand made terra cotta tile.More »
11. Mission Stone & Tile
Mission Stone & Tile is based in Nashville, TN, with a store in Chattanooga. Â Mission is one of my newer and more favorite discoveries, with unique tile offerings such as its Curve Appeal scalllop-shaped tiles and its Hex Appeal hexagonal Carrara Basalt tiles. Â Besides those two stores, Mission sells its products online, with free shipping for orders of $1;000 or more.More »
12. Eleganza Tile
Floor, wall, medallion, natural stone, and resin borders from a Fullerton, CA-based tile company, with branches in Texas and Illinois.More »
13. Nemo Tile
I'm not sure how Nemo Tile escaped my notice for so long. Nemo, based in New York, sports a gorgeous website with tons of great tile ideas--porcelain, stone, engineered. Even wood, for heaven's sakes. Nemo is a must-see site.More »
14. Florida Tile
Florida Tile must be located in...Florida, right? Wrong. Their corporate headquarters are in Lexington, Kentucky, with a manufacturing and distribution base in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. For a half-century, Florida Tile, Inc. has been making porcelain and ceramic wall tile, as well as natural stone and decorative glass and metal tiles. In our picture gallery of diagonal tile flooring, we feature a number of Florida Tile products.More »
15. Marazzi
Hey, how can you go wrong with Italian lineage for a tile company? Marazzi provides porcelain stoneware, glazed porcelain, through-body porcelain, glass, and glazed ceramic tile for both commercial and residential use. Even though Marazzi doesn't sell directly to the homeowner--and few tile manufacturers do, anyway--they haven't forgotten our needs with their nice, informative website. Marazzi distributes to both independent retailers and to the big home improvement centers like The Home Depot.More »
16. Merola Tile
Merola Tile provides porcelain and natural stone tiles for kitchens, bathrooms, walls, and floors.
What else? Merola Tile provides tile to name retailers, so don't expect to buy any tile through them directly. In fact, I suspect their website is mainly geared toward their big retail clients, and not really for the homeowner. So, you won't find a lot of information there.More »
17. Florim USA
Florim USA, formerly called American Florim, is based in Clarksville, Tennessee. It's the U.S. offshoot of Italian tilemaker Florim Group. They call their tile "Italian tile made in the U.S.A."More »
18. StonePeak
StonePeak is an Italian company with headquarters in Chicago and production facilities in Tennessee. This is gorgeous stuff, mainly revolving around commercial and high-end residential installations. Be sure to check out their site. I've found that their downloadable .pdf catalogs offer the most comprehensive view of their offerings, along with large, drool-worthy photos of their tile in action.More »
19. Oceanside Glasstile
As the name says, Oceanside is all about glass tile. Since 1992, Oceanside has supplied glass tile for high profile commercial and residential tiling applications. They have a product gallery worth checking out, as you can search images by keyword (such as "backsplash") and pull up a large number of photos.More »
20. Pavé Tile & Stone
This Massachusetts-based tile company, in business since 2000, imports premium French, Italian, and Spanish hand made terra cotta tile.More »