Decorative tile & backsplash tile, hand painted since 1922

5 ways to use decorative tile murals to decorate your home

This article explains and gives ideas on how to use decorative tile to decorate different locations in your home.

1 - One of the most obvious places you can use a decorative tile mural is your kitchen backsplash. The 18 inches or more of space between your kitchen cabinets and countertop, is a prime location to install a beautifully designed ceramic tile mural. The tile mural itself can be as wide as you need, and the height depends on how much space you have.

The advantages of using such a tile mural to decorate your kitchen wall are many, ranging from the practical to the aesthetic. First, you need to tile your backsplash to protect your kitchen wall from heat, moisture, grease stains etc., to which the kitchen wall is subject to... continued with photos

Press and testimonials on our decorative tile

New York Times, 1985 - "Against a cobalt blue background, a mandala-like phoenix in rust brown, pale blue, yellow, green and cream, flexes its wings until the tips nearly touch. Grazing amid long stemmed flowers, a gazelle looks up, perhaps to sniff the air. On one side of an enormous, muted-green and yellow "Tree of Life", a lion falls on a frightened gazelle: on the other, two other gazelles continue to feed serenely. However modest in size, each scene is complete, and thanks to precise design and understated color, meditatively alive..." - More from the article

Congressman Frank Pallone - "M. Karakashian, the founder, was the painter of the original group from Kutahya, and the painting of his descendants’ work still excels. I purchased a yellow vase with deer prancing and a blue plate with two peacocks entwined. There is nothing that compares to the various shades of blue in the Armenian ceramics of Jerusalem." - Full article

House beautiful magazine, November 2006

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Unique ceramic decorative tile - accents for interior decorating

We have been making unique hand painted decorative tiles by family tradition since 1922, when a group of artists, including my grandfather, were brought to renovate the decorative tiles of the Dome of the Rock. Since then, we have been producing our hand painted tiles and pottery, which have decorated private homes and public buildings. About us ...

Our Wall murals tile backsplash

Our tiles are hand painted with vivid colors, glazed, and fired at 1850 degrees Fahrenheit, so that the colors are permanently sealed in, and don't wash away. Perfect for backsplashes and wall installations, table tops, fireplace tiles and bathroom walls.

Features of our decorative tile and backsplash tile:

• Carefully designed and painted tiles with bright, vivid colors, made by years of experience
• Use for kitchen walls, backsplash tile, fireplaces, bathroom walls, table tops
• Unique and eye catching artistic tile designs from a different place and time
• Hand painted, glazed, and fired to last a life time
• For outdoor and indoor decorating
• Colors are sealed in permanently, they don't fade or wash away
• We are one of the last remaining places in the world where this Armenian ceramic tile art is still made with precision and care.
• Guaranteed delivery or your money back

How to use this site to buy your backsplash tile online

Use the menu on the left to browse tile categories and to choose your art tiles/themes, and add them to your shopping basket. You can then check out and pay using your credit card, or have us call you to take your order over the phone.

If you have any decorative tile questions, or need assistance with tile mural sizes, please email us.

Hagop Karakashian
Jerusalem Pottery

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