HEATH TILE.

Heath Ceramics is one of the few remaining mid-century American potteries still in existence today. Founded by Edith Heath in 1948, Heath handcrafts and hand-glazes their tile and tableware for over a half-century at their Sausalito factory. What this all means is; old school.

 

We made several trips across the golden gate bridge to browse through their overstock room, where they sell 2nd's & 3rd's at discounted prices.

We wanted to use their 3x9 oval tile in white, as a backsplash for our "floating salvaged post-sink". It would have been a nice contrast to all the straight lines we had going on in the den, especially with the horizontally installed cedar wall.

Instead we found enough 3x9 dimensional diamond shape tile in white we could use for the small area.

Here they are, right in front of the big gaping hole from the sink's plumbing.

And here's the Heath installed & grouted :

During the last 1.5 yrs, we made about 5-6 trips to Heath Ceramics, to rummage through their overstock room in the back, to find enough tile to build our outdoor patio bench. Since we couldn't find enough tile

of just one specific color, size, or glaze (it was a lot easier for the sink since it's such as small area), we just picked up all their shades of green in various lengths and mixed & matched it. This is us laying out the tile in our garage at 1 a.m to see if we can find some sort of consistant pattern.

  

We have just about enough. This is about the height the bench will be. We will use salvaged wood and cut them into slats for the seat on top.