Red Glossy Ceramic Accent Tiles 6×8

A glossy red ceramic accent tile, six by eight inches, three eighths deep. Each piece covers a third of a square foot, with fourteen in a box for 4.67 square feet.

Proportion as the point

Six by eight is not a standard field size, which is what makes it useful as an accent: laid among squares it reads as deliberate rather than as a leftover. Turn the pieces on end and they stack into short columns, lay them flat and they run as a band. Red is the strongest colour a glaze can carry and the most permanent, since firing locks it in and daylight never takes it out. Gloss deepens it further by reflecting whatever light the room has. Fourteen pieces to a box is enough for a long band and a few spares, which is worth having, since a replacement bought later comes from another firing and may not match exactly.

• 0.33 sq ft a piece Fourteen pieces, 4.67 square feet a box.
• Two ways up Stacked as columns or run as a band.

Residential interior walls

Residential interior walls is the rating recorded, and bathroom is the room on file. Accent tiles ceramic red of this shape normally sit inside a field of plain tile, as a row or a scattered few, though a full 60 square feet would take fifteen boxes. Ceramic snaps cleanly with a hand cutter, so stopping a band neatly at a mirror or a cabinet is straightforward work.

• Fifteen boxes What a full 60 square feet would take.
• Clean stops A hand cutter ends a band exactly where it should.

Why we chose it

• Fixed colour Fired red does not fade or need repainting.
• Odd size Six by eight sits apart from the squares around it.
• Nothing to seal Glazed ceramic resists stains as it comes.

Care

No sealer. Any household tile cleaner works, and a soft cloth keeps the reflection even across the field.