Mosaics Klondike Glass Mosaic 32.7x32.7cm van Original Style, Muur tile.

Golden Browns & Mixes

Mosaics have been used to decorate buildings for thousands of years and the Greeks and Romans made them into an art form, creating highly intricate images from tiny pieces of stone (tesserae), mainly for their floors. Mosaics are still an incredibly popular way of covering walls and floors today in homes, commercial buildings and for swimming pools too.

The format hasn’t changed much over the centuries either, although modern mosaics are now every easy and quick to apply. Mosaics are probably the most versatile of all tiling formats: small pieces of glass/stone/shell/ceramic/porcelain/metal (or a combination of all or any of these) are all held together on the reverse side, usually by a mesh backing (although some have a film or paper covering on the face rather the back). Mosaic sheets can be fixed in the same way as ceramic or porcelain tiles with adhesive and grout: view our Fixing Guide for full installation details.