Woof! Hi there, tile lovers! 🐾 We've had so much fun sharing all the pawsome Wet Dog Blog posts with you here. But guess what? We've found a new spot to wag our tails! We’ve moved to a new blogging platform on our brand new website and we can't wait to show you around. So, follow the paw prints to our new home, where we'll be barking up even more exciting tile ideas and inspiration. 🐾 See you there! 🐾

8/1/24

How to Choose the Perfect Floor Tiles for Bathroom Renovations

Renovating a bathroom is an amazing opportunity to make bold statements with unique materials. Because a bathroom is a small space, it is far more plausible to choose a truly beautiful option for walls and floors than it would be for the square footage required in a larger room.

Besides the practical considerations of upgrading fixtures and replacing damaged or stained materials, the potential for turning a cramped and stuffy bathroom into a statement room with comfort and beauty is too good to miss.

While there are hundreds of types of flooring today that hold up to the challenges that a bathroom presents, few will give the timeless beauty and durability of ceramic tile.

But isn't tile boring? Does a grid of grout lines make you feel constricted and call attention to the crooked bathtub?

If your mental picture of bathroom tile is boring and basic, think again. There are creative companies making mosaic tiles in a variety of shapes, styles, and colors. For example, consider the whimsical designs of Wet Dog Tile, a great little company that makes bespoke designs in a variety of durable materials.

If you're seeking floor tiles for bathroom renovation, look no further. Beautiful patterns and lovely colors can make your bathroom floor a true work of art
 

Bathroom Tile Ideas: Beautify Your Bathroom Floor 

What is the vibe you want in your bathroom? Do you want it to feel more spacious, or cozy? Do you want your bathroom tiles to tell a story, or set a mood, evoke comfort, or just feel safe under wet feet?

For any of your bathroom tile goals, there is a mosaic that will be perfect for your space.

Mosaic Bathroom Tile for Safety

A beautiful pattern of mosaic bathroom tile

The bathroom and shower can be difficult to navigate. Many surfaces become slippery when wet and are dangerous to walk on with wet feet.

The wonderful thing about mosaic bathroom floor tiles is that not only are they beautiful, but they also provide textural variety underfoot. This means that they are less likely to let your foot slip very far if you lose your footing.

Textured and patterned tiles give more traction underfoot, meaning that it is easier to keep from slipping when your feet are wet or you spilled some shampoo.

Elegance and Serenity: Patterned Tile For a Restful Space

Bathroom Tile Ideas: subtly patterned mosaic For a Peaceful Vibe

If you are looking for a bathroom tile that evokes a spa-like space, consider a gently textured mosaic in a monochromatic palette of earth tones or coastal hues. Soothing to the eye and restful to the spirit, a quiet, repetitive pattern of bathroom tiles will help you set your mind at rest.

Self-care is easier when you love your bathroom space, so select a floor tile that you adore to ensure that you are happy to spend time caring for your skin and hair each day.

A Touch of Whimsy: Tell a Story With Bathroom Tiles

A fun pattern of bathroom tile that will make you and your guests smile

What if your vibe is more easy-going and fun? What if you want to show off your imagination and create something your friends and neighbors have never seen before?

If this sounds like your style, you definitely do not want plain white tiles. You want your bathroom floor tile to showcase your style and sense of humor with a variety of colors and textures.

Perhaps a beach scene mosaic is the answer. With blue tiles to represent water, natural stones, and even shapes like sandals and starfish, your bathroom floor can tell a story every time a guest walks in.

Other mosaic bathroom floor tile designs might include trout streams or waterfalls. Your imagination is all that needs to limit you.

Bathroom Tile Ideas: Not Just for the Bathroom Floor

Tiles are not only for floors. They make one of the most beautiful and durable wall treatments and can also be used on vanities and countertops.

Accent Wall: Create a Bathroom Focal Point

Make your bathroom stand out with bathroom tile ideas

Mosaic tile can make a beautiful, durable and easily washable focal point for the bathroom. When installed on cement board it can easily hold up to being regularly splashed with water and cleaned, unlike painted murals, and the timeless beauty of mosaic will make a memorable image.

Mosaic Decor For Shower Walls

bathroom tile ideas: theme your guest bathroom around an undersea motif

When you are trying to choose a unique bathroom design, consider the fact that the shower can make an excellent area to decorate. Smaller spaces are less expensive to bedeck in beautiful materials and a unique pattern on the shower walls can make a very plain bathroom seem luxurious and creative.

Vanities and Countertops: Show Off Your Favorite Tile Patterns

A fun waterfall motif creates continuity between the mirror, vanity and floor tile

When you are looking for bathroom tile ideas, don't limit yourself to the shower and floor. Mosaic tiles make a durable surface for vanities and counters as well, and bathroom tile can become a great form of creative expression when you use mosaics of varied patterns and textures.

Bathroom Floor Tile: Display Your Home Decor Theme

It's easy to let bathroom decor be an afterthought: throw up some white tiles, put a fake plant by the sink and call it good enough.

Just remember that since the bathroom is a small space, using excellent materials and unique design in the bathroom is much more affordable than anywhere else in the house. And all materials are not created equal; few bathroom surface materials will be as durable as mosaic tile.

Your bathroom floor tile project can be as simple or complex as you choose. Why not choose some beauty and whimsy and shop Wet Dog Tile for exceptional bespoke floor tile patterns!

 

 

6/5/24

New Installation Photos - June 2024!

 The Photos & Ideas page on the Wet Dog Tile website has hundreds of photos of installations in a wide variety of spaces! You'll find kitchen installations, bathroom installations, and a bunch of other fun areas such as fireplaces, pools, and outdoor showers just to name a few!

Today on the Wet Dog Blog we'd like to share some new installation photos with you. While there will be a few new ones to see here, the real gold mine will be over on the Photos & Ideas page, so be sure to check that out!

 Alright, enough barking - onto the photos!
 
This moose mural is installed in a walk-in shower. Our tile is perfect for wet applications such as this! This mural features our 7" Moose and various leaves from the Lake Dog Collection.

This wet bar backsplash really livens up this space and is packed with Friends from all of our collections! In it you can find deer, bear, dogs, fish, dragonflies, butterflies, ducks, turtles, and much more!

Another bathroom shower installation, this time focused on our Ocean Dog Collection. This mural features our 8" Large Sea Turtle, 6" Large Flat Sea Turtle, 6" Large Crab, and 6" Medium Seahorse just to name a few! The glaze colors really tie in with the surrounding brick glass field tile.

This kitchen backsplash mural is based off of our "Significant Otter" mural from the Ocean Dog Collection. This mural features our 3 otter variants as well as a 4" Small Starfish, 3" Small Crab, and 2 2" Shore Birds.

This mural was a fun one for us and includes a custom sculpted lighthouse! We glazed our handmade mosaic Drops in various warm tones and created a sunset scene that includes our 7" and 5.5" Fluid Fish, 4.5" Jumping Dog, and a few new pieces coming soon to the website! This mural is framed with our handmade Labrador rope molding from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

This kitchen backsplash mural is a true seascape! This features octopus, crabs, turtles, starfish, jellyfish, seahorse, stingray, and so much more!

This custom mosaic mural is a blend of nearly every pre-designed mural from our Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection. Handpainted Freshwater and Fluid Fish from the River Run design, stacked Oars from the Peaceful Pond design, and a Small Heron in the top left corner like the In the Moonlight design!

This custom mural features turtles, dolphins, starfish, seahorses, crabs, shorebirds, shells, and more! Can you spot the dog? This mural is also framed in our Dachshund pencil liners from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

This vertical bathroom shower installation is a wonderful pop of color and and breath of life alongside the surrounding glossy, wavy tile. Our handmade mosaic tile is rated for both dry and wet applications, inside or outside, making it the perfect tile for an installation such as this!
 
These installation photos and more can be found over on the Photos & Ideas page! Have a great rest of your week, everyone!

5/24/24

New Mosaic Textures, Minis, & More!

Hi, everyone!

We recently unveiled the brand new Snow Dog Collection, featuring 6 new murals, 7 new borders, and over 30 new glazed Friends available for purchase! We also revealed new mural and border designs in the updated Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection.

But wait, there's more!

We've added brand new colored glass, natural stone, and glazed ceramic pieces in our Mosaic Textures and Mosaic Minis palettes!

 
Our new Snow Drops are a blend of clear and frosted irregular shaped glass that are only available in the Snowflake (white) color. While similar to the Snowflake Puddles from the Textures Palette, these have a more natural and organic shape that translates well in our handmade borders and murals.
 

Our new Ice Crystals come in nine different colors to choose from. We make these by combining handmade ceramic mosaics with crushed, recycled glass, creating a shimmering, crystalline effect. Photos do not do these justice; they are absolutely beautiful in person! We'll have our process for creating these in a later Wet Dog Blog post!

 Sea Stones, coming in either blue or green, are specialty stones we tumble in-house to create irregular shapes and sizes. Sea Stones are perfect for either blending in with the blue and green hues found in glass Puddles or glazed Friends, or standing out by adding a subtle pop of color!

We've added a new color option to our Skipping Stones; Quartz! Just like Sea Stones, our Skipping Stones are tumbled in-house to create irregular shapes and sizes, but in a much more natural and neutral tone. The Quartz Skipping Stones offer a nice blend of color while not being overbearing or taking away from the beauty of the rest of the border or mural they're included in!

Last, but certainly not least, are our brand new Flurries from the Minis palette! These Flurries are hand-cut and hand-pressed stoneware mosaics which add unique texture and character to any of our mesh-mounted borders or murals. These can be glazed in any of our available glazes! Flurries are pressed with various snowflake patterns and add wonderful texture in borders or murals.

The new Snow Drops, Ice Crystals, Sea Stones, Skipping Stones, and Flurries, can all be found in this beautiful installation photo of three custom murals featuring new Friends from the Snow Dog Collection! Our tile is extremely durable, high quality, made for indoor or outdoor use, wet or dry, and is slip resistant, so it's perfect for a bathroom installation like this!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

5/17/24

Tile for Log Cabins, Mountain Homes, & More!

 We recently unveiled our new Snow Dog Collection that features 6 new murals, 7 borders, and over 30 new Friends! The Snow Dog Collection is perfect for mountain homes, ski lodges, cabins, chalets, or anywhere you'd like to turn into a winter wonderland! With that being said, the Snow Dog Collection isn't the only new thing we unveiled...

The new Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection features a new pre-designed mosaic mural and matching border called "River Run"! These designs feature hand-painted Freshwater Fish, Fluid Fish, Fishing Lures, and many different Leaves! Dark natural river stones and shimmering Larimar Ice Crystals add great contrast and really make these designs pop!

"River Run" border shown in a 6" width

"River Run" mural shown in 18"x18"
 
 While the "River Run" pre-designed mural and border are new, we designed them while taking heavy inspiration from a previous custom installation we did...

The handmade Friends in this floor design are relatively flat to the touch as to not be uncomfortable under foot! Our tile is extremely durable and water resistant, making a floor design like this a wonderful addition to this bathroom!

This bathroom shower mural features many of the same Friends that are in the new "River Run" pre-designed mural. This is framed with our handmade Dachshund pencil liner from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

The "River Run" design is great for mountain homes, log cabins, farmhouses, or anywhere in a rural setting! Custom borders and murals are an option as well; our artists are able to glaze fish in a variety of designs to match your local favorite aquatic animals!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

5/8/24

Snow Dog Collection: New Murals, Borders, & More!

 The Snow Dog Collection features 6 new murals, 7 new borders, and over 30 new Friends. Vintage skis, snowboards, snowshoes, snowflakes, tree branches, fox, owl, black bears, deer, and more can be found in the Snow Dog Collection. Below are a handful of the new murals and borders. Head on over to the website to see the rest for yourself!

"A Walk in the Snow" 18"x24" mural from the Snow Dog Collection. This mural features the brand new 13" Snowshoes as well the new Snowflakes

"Vintage Skis - Snowy" 6" border from the Snow Dog Collection. This border features our new Small Skis #1, 2, and 3

"Snowflakes - Blue" 6" border from the Snow Dog Collection. This border features the new Snowflakes and Celestite Ice Crystals

The Snow Dog Collection isn't the only change to our website; there are 14 new additions to our Textures and Minis Palettes!

Our new Ice Crystals combine handmade mosaics with crushed recycled glass, creating a shimmering, crystalline effect. There are nine different Ice Crystal colors to choose from!

Sea Stones are specialty stones that are tumbled to create irregular shapes and sizes, available in blue or green shades.

Snowdrops are a new blend of clear and frosted irregular shaped glass that are only available in the "Snowflake" colorway.

Flurries are new hand-cut and hand-pressed stoneware mosaics that add unique texture and character to any of our mesh-mounted borders or murals. These Flurries are shown in a blend of neutral white glazes but can also be glazed in a blend of blues or greens!

Head on over to the Wet Dog website to see the new Snow Dog Collection for yourself!

Have a great day, everyone!