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Selecting Artisanal Glass Tile for the Bathroom

Bob meets homeowner Jeanne Sanviti-Masher to talk about the demands of the project and plans for the new mudroom. Sanviti-Masher says the new space is designed with a closet so family members can enter and shed wet or muddy clothes. The new bathroom will be tiled in unique, artisanal tiles from Trikeenan Tileworks in Keene, New Hampshire. Sanviti-Masher shows Bob some of the samples, included a fired glass tile that has colored glass embedded in the tiles that melts and becomes luminescent. She also explains that they will be using feature tiles in their design and shows Bob one of the samples.
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Selecting Artisanal Glass Tile for the Bathroom

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" All right our back door has been installed and this is not just a simple French door but it has a sidelight so that you got a lot of light coming in and our homeowner is here -- come on now. She mash your house how long has it been now since we started -- amounts to -- you write it down to the hour. And what's it like living in -- in a construction site."

" I have -- days and a lot of workers here I try to clear out it's just it's less stressful we have a small child as you know sure so it's it's easier. But Canada day when everyone's gone up very good about cleaning up. Thing you know it's it's less stressful yet. Trying to keep perspective we're seeing in the light at the end of the tunnel yet it's lot of work's been done --"

" And the come together he got a back door and you've got. Tell -- by the mudroom here."

" Well the mudroom. We'll have tiles. They'll be you know closet here which will be terrific just nice space to kind of come and take issues -- reading him right maybe even have a seat."

" And then the bathroom tile. I mean you you you had a full bathroom here we're basically kind of reconfiguring it making it a little bit better but you've really gotten involved in choosing the the tiles. Four and it's the color scheme in the design of everything right."

" That's right now when our old bathroom had to be taken down we decided while we're starting fresh let's you know let's really do something special with the tile. It's a very small area and without -- and could."

" A good place to really demonstrate some of the possibilities are that samples here OK you found Trikeenan which is and -- chisel tile maker up in Keene, New Hampshire. And look at all the possibilities and what do you call this."

" This is actually glass that they fired. They they embed the glass in the tile and when they fire the title the class. It it actually -- and it he -- and beautiful done designing --"

" And the combinations you know a white field tile like this and then all the other decorative things and the livable houses and stuff. It's appropriate for queen -- house."

" And it's mind boggling that choices that they have done -- started out on their website and at Annapolis getting ideas is that way."

" A look at this and I mean did this come combines a mosaic tile."

" Exactly. Yet with these little feature strips and then the more detailed strip here everything is hand painted yeah. In New England. "

" Meaning is handmade and amid new England and the color choices and and has -- 52 different places you can choose exactly is this one part of the yeah."

" It is part of the scheme. This it we're doing some feature tiles and that and one operate that well let's go inside and meet Steven powers from Trikeenan."

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