Miles of Tile: Subway Tile

Subway tile is all the rage in our showroom lately! We want to share with you all of the colors, varieties and textures that we offer in subway tile.

Now you may ask, what's this subway tile talk? What the heck is subway tile anyway? Well, for those of you not up on tile lingo, subway tile is a style of glazed ceramic tile that was used on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 20th century. It's common size is 3x6 and is laid offset in a brick joint.

Original Style offers tons of fun colors from your fun apple green, bubblegum pink to your conservative buttercream or colonial white. If you want a stoney, textured subway tile, check out Florida Tile's Millenia series. It offers four colors and does a fantastic job at mimicking a natural stone.

Heartland's Lifestones series is great to use if you want to mix more than one color for your tile installation. This smooth, no pattern style has 6 colors: nacar, arena, verde, gris, graffito, and tobacco.

If your not a fan of the brick joint, offset style that subway tile is usually shown in, you might like a herringbone or basketweave pattern. You can also lay the tile offset but vertically instead of horizontally. Still confused? Come by our showroom and one of our friendly showroom consultants would be happy to show you options!