design ideas: grouting

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Pull together your granite countertop and backsplash with this fabulous ceramic tile grout design idea.

Add some anthill gravel, bee bee-size gravel, or pea gravel into your grout. These tiny rock chards are easy to collect and use in the grout of your ceramic tile floors and walls. 

The example below shows a poly/sanded charcoal grout, purchased from Home Depot, in conjunction with tiny pebbles. This winning combination creates a black granite-like feel that goes splendidly with granite countertops.

If you want to match a tan/brown granite countertop, take a tan ceramic tile sanded grout and mix your pebbles in with the grout. It's that easy!

During the ants dormant months, grab a shovel and bucket, and dig away. Wash off any sand/dirt and thank the ants for sorting through the different size gravel for your ceramic tile project!

Grout/filler ideas:

There are numerous things you can mix in with your sanded grout to make your ceramic tile floors/walls appear more uniform and natural. If you are merely wanting to fill in around your ceramic tile mosaic pieces, you can use any of the following:

• Broken manufactured tile chards to fill in around the tiles. See our Medallions link.

• Skipping stones from the beach.

• Small dime-sized / penny  round ceramic tiles.

• Flat lapidary pieces—like amethyst, jasper, etc.

• Found art, such as bottle caps, penny's, etc.

• Pea gravel.

• Glass globs from the craft store (flat side up)

• Sand blasted glass pieces from the beach

Any of these techniques will add a little sparkle to your ceramic tile mosaic designs!

For more design ideas see:

• Ceramic tile mirrors

• Ceramic tile fireplaces

• Ceramic tile lily pond

• Ceramic tile bench

• Ceramic tile grouping

• Scattered ceramic tile leaves

• Design dilemma 

"Diane, We've been very happy with how easy it is to work with you and how quickly you got our tiles out. They look great and we can't wait to put them up on the backsplash."

Jenny and Brian Cross, Redlands, CA

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