The Real Charm of Antique Hand Painted Tiles
If you've ever walked into a centuries-old home and felt like the walls were trying to tell you a story, you were probably looking at some antique hand painted tiles. There's something about them that just hits differently than the mass-produced stuff you find at big-box hardware stores today. While modern tiles are perfect and uniform, antique ones are full of "mistakes" that actually make them more beautiful. You can see the brushstrokes, the slight variations in the blue or ochre pigments, and the way the glaze has settled over the decades—or even centuries. ...