How we work with designer tile
Designer brands often publish detailed installation and care guides, and their steps can differ from general tile practice: a minimum joint for zellige, a sealer before grouting cement tile, a white mortar for glass. Before quoting, we read the guide for your exact collection. If the maker's instructions and the site conditions conflict, we raise it before setting, not after. Lead times, stock, and shipping are between you and the seller.
Clé
Clé's website lists a wide range of materials, including zellige, cement, terracotta, brick, terrazzo, ceramic and porcelain, natural stone, and metal tile. Its zellige follows the planning on our zellige tile installation page: blend every box, dry-lay, and respect the maker's minimum joint. Clé publishes guidance on when its zellige should be sealed before grouting, for example unglazed pieces or a contrasting grout. Its cement and terracotta products follow our cement tile and terracotta pages.
Zia Tile
Zia Tile's website lists zellige, cement, cotto (terracotta), ceramics, glass mosaics, terrazzo, and natural stone such as marble, limestone, and cantera. Zia publishes its own zellige installation guide, which we read alongside the collection details. Its cement products follow the pre-seal and grout testing steps on our cement tile installation page, and glass mosaics follow the white mortar and grout rules on our mosaic tile installation page.
Otto Tiles & Design
The Otto Tiles & Design website lists encaustic cement tile, zellige and bejmat, porcelain, ceramic, marble, and terrazzo. For an Otto tile installation, encaustic cement patterns follow our cement process: seal per the maker before grout, test the grout color, and lay the pattern out dry. Zellige and bejmat follow our zellige planning, and patterned layouts follow the notes on our Moroccan tile installation page.
Fireclay Tile
Fireclay Tile's website lists handmade ceramic tile, natural press ceramic, glass, and brick, in field tile, mosaic, trim, and hand-painted formats. Ceramic and brick are set like other handcrafted wall and floor tile, within the uses the maker rates; glass follows the glass rules on our mosaic page. Where a collection offers trim pieces, they simplify finished edges on backsplashes and shower walls.
Granada Tile
Granada Tile's website describes its products as handmade cement tile, also called encaustic or concrete tile, in patterned, solid, textured relief, and smaller formats. These follow our cement tile process. Relief and textured collections need extra care during grouting and sealing, since grout can lodge in surface texture, so we follow the maker's steps for that specific line.
Villa Lagoon Tile
Villa Lagoon Tile sells encaustic cement tile in standard and custom patterns, according to published company profiles. Its tile follows our cement tile process: pre-seal per the maker, test grout on a sealed sample, and plan the pattern dry. Confirm the current product details and care instructions with the seller before ordering.
Zellige Home
Zellige Home describes itself as a family-owned maker of handmade zellige from Fez, Morocco. Its website lists loose zellige in squares, hexagons, bejmat, and other shapes, mesh-backed zellige mosaics, and hand-painted and custom pieces. Loose zellige follows our zellige planning; mesh-backed mosaics need the sheet alignment described on our mosaic page.
Mosaic Morocco
The Mosaic Morocco website presents the business as Moroccan Mosaic & Tile House and describes handmade zellige, Moroccan mosaics, cement tile, and terracotta made by artisans in Morocco. If you are buying from a different business with a similar name, send us the product page so we can confirm the material. Each product type follows the matching page for zellige, cement, terracotta, or mosaic tile.
A brand not listed here?
We install handcrafted and designer tile from other makers too. Send the product page and installation guide, and we will check the material against our handmade tile installation approach. Our services page lists the rooms and surfaces we work on.
Costa Tile Works is an independent tile installer. We are not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Clé, Zia Tile, Otto Tiles & Design, Fireclay Tile, Granada Tile, Villa Lagoon Tile, Zellige Home, Mosaic Morocco, or any other brand named on this page. Brand names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used only to describe the products we install. Buy tile from the brand or its dealers. We install customer-supplied product following the maker's published instructions.