Portland Direct Tile & Marble Blog

With its longer days, nicer weather, and general sense of rebirth and renewal, spring has a tendency to give Portland home remodeling fever. As your Portland tile flooring experts, we’re happy to help. Here are five projects to get you thinking.1. Reinvent your bath.Warm weather and the more active lifestyle that goes with it can put moisture-related strain on an already-overtaxed bath. New tile and tub surrounds can give your bath a new lease on life.2. A new look for the entranceway.Your home' … read more

As your Portland tile flooring experts, we at Portland Direct Tile & Marble feel a duty to make sure our customers are well-informed about ceramic tile flooring issues. With that in mind, today we’d like to tell you about a method for categorizing tile flooring called the “PEI Rating.”Like most industries, the ceramic tile flooring industry uses various indexes and measures for expressing the different parameters of its products. The PEI Rating is one of the most important of these, and rates va … read more

Welcome back to Portland Direct Featured Products, where we bring you up to speed on the many flooring and tiling options available to fulfill your design needs. This time, we’ll be telling you about one of our favorites: onyx tile.Onyx’s beauty and luster are striking enough that it’s often used in jewelry, but at Portland Direct we specialize in a more utilitarian application: onyx tile flooring.The onyx tile Portland Direct offers comes in a wide variety of colors and patterns, though most ar … read more

Welcome once again to our ongoing blog series, Portland Direct Featured Products, where we share with you those products from our catalog that we think deserve a second look. This time we want to call your attention to an exciting, convention-bending tile product called Stainless Steel Mosaics.It’s likely that when you think of tile, you think of ceramics. Recently, however, forward-looking designers have been making good use of this modern, sleek stainless steel tile product.In fact, when it co … read more

Industrial Chic Design: What Is It, and Why Is It So Popular?At Portland Direct Tile & Marble, we do more than just sell Portland tile flooring — we help turn great residential design ideas into reality. One of the ways we do this is by helping our customers stay current with the latest trends and styles in home décor.One design motif that’s been making a lot of waves recently goes by the name “industrial chic.” It’s a hot new look where form follows function in a way that really gives your … read more