Edwardian Tiling With A Modern Twist!

[Ian]

Why are metro tiles called.....metro tiles?........someone told me it's cause the London underground was tiled with them..

Btw....share your hate for them......just completed 10 m2 in a kitchen, round a big window, inside the reveals, above the wall units.....job from hell....white metros with dark grey grout aswell......not my cup of tea for sure...

A kitchen splash back including over the cabinets! Now that really is my idea of hell!

 

[Old Mod]

Why are metro tiles called.....metro tiles?........someone told me it's cause the London underground was tiled with them..

Btw....share your hate for them......just completed 10 m2 in a kitchen, round a big window, inside the reveals, above the wall units.....job from hell....white metros with dark grey grout aswell......not my cup of tea for sure...

Haha well Andy they were half right!
They came about around the turn of the 20th century, and were used in the New York Subways when they opened in the very early 1900's!
And were subsequently used in the London Underground too!

So...... No pics for us Andy?

 

[Old Mod]

Think I'm gonna start a 'Hate the Metro Tile Society' hahaha

 

[Ian]

Think I'm gonna start a 'Hate the Metro Tile Society' hahaha

Count me in, I'll be treasurer or something like that!

 

[Old Mod]

Count me in, I'll be treasurer or something like that!

Bri, u are a treasure mate!

 

[Andy Allen]

Haha well Andy they were half right!
They came about around the turn of the 20th century, and were used in the New York Subways when they opened in the very early 1900's!
And were subsequently used in the London Underground too!

So...... No pics for us Andy?

Finished the job today...ment to take some pictures but the polish cleaners were rushing me so they could clean the kitchen ......I will join the HTMTS with you and Bri.....I could be treasurer. ...

 

[Andy Allen]

Bri beat me to it...lol

 

[widler]

Here are some,bloody awful , grey grout as well, mitred to a fashion , in a 14 grand kitchen apparently

 

[Old Mod]

Here are some,bloody awful , grey grout as well, mitred to a fashion , in a 14 grand kitchen apparently View attachment 76987 View attachment 76988 View attachment 76989 View attachment 76990 View attachment 76991

U need a new laser Craig! Hahaha

 

[Qwerty]

I start a kitchen splash next week, and guess what!!??















Yep, cream bevelled metros!

 

[Old Mod]

I start a kitchen splash next week, and guess what!!??
Yep, cream bevelled metros!

Well Geoff we got @Bri as treasurer!
We got @Andy Allen as madam secretary
There's plenty more room in the gang! Haha

Heins and La Farge have a lot to answer for!

 

[widler]

U need a new laser Craig! Hahaha

Laser?
What laser

 

[widler]

Ps
You do know these tiles aint flat straight or the same size?
Just looking at your post mark im not sure if you are being witty or bitchy ?
They wanted them 'all over' no spaces , no big joints and as cottagy as possible

 

[Old Mod]

Ps
You do know these tiles aint flat straight or the same size?
Just looking at your post mark im not sure if you are being witty or bitchy ?
They wanted them 'all over' no spaces , no big joints and as cottagy as possible

Hahaha yes Craig I no exectly what they mate, haha
I was actually only refferring to the quarter bond! Haha

 

[MTiler]

I dont mind metros, but hate grouting bevelled metros.