My Quest to Create a Classic, Intricately Tiled Bathroom

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My Quest to Create a Classic, Intricately Tiled Bathroom
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Ever been in a beautiful, intricately tiled, 1920s bathroom? It's still possible to create that look yourself. Here's how.

A passionate appreciator of small-batch, craftily laid-out tile takes a crack at cloaking her modest bathroom in ceramics worthy of a mansionI SPENT SEVERAL weeks last fall at my desk, a pencil in my right hand hovering over graph paper, left hand clicking on dropped-down options, working on what I rationalized was, if nothing else, a brain-exercising puzzle.

Yes, my fellow tortured renovators, I speak of tile. But not the cheap species that dominates the current market, cargo-boated in from China. I am fixated on what I call real tile, which has been crafted, at least somewhat, by the warm human hand. Even on the grimmest workday in New York City, a subway-station...

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