Duchy Pink Skirting Tile 152x152mm

Yes. Artworks is specified for both wet and dry wall areas, so Duchy Pink is at home in a shower enclosure, a wet room or around a bath. The background must be sound, dry and properly tanked, with a flexible waterproof adhesive and grout throughout the wet zone. A soft pink glaze behaves beautifully in a shower: wet, it deepens by a shade or two and looks closer to a warm shell than to a chalky plaster, then dries back lighter again.

No. Artworks is a wall tile range only. The glaze is not rated for foot traffic and would scratch and dull quickly underfoot, and a gloss surface of this kind is slippery when wet. Duchy Pink looks its best above a floor that grounds it — an encaustic-look geometric, a black and white chequer, or a warm terracotta quarry tile. Our team can suggest a floor to sit beneath it; call 01344 620211.

There is slight variation between production batches, and a soft pink shows it more readily than a strong colour does — a half shade of difference is easy to see across a pale wall. Order the whole quantity for a room in one go, including your wastage allowance, and mix tiles from several boxes as you set out rather than working box by box. If you need to add to an existing wall later, send us a photograph and we will tell you honestly how close a current batch is likely to be.

Use a white flexible adhesive — a grey adhesive can shadow through a pale glaze and cool the colour. For grout, stay warm: a soft putty, a warm buff or a pale sand tone flatters the pink and lets it stay soft. Two things to avoid. A brilliant white grout makes the pink look chalky and washed out by comparison, and a cool or mid grey grout drains the warmth straight out of it and leaves the wall looking dusty rather than rosy. Warm and close in tone is the rule.

Duchy Pink is usually held in stock across the range, field tiles and mouldings alike. We will confirm availability and a delivery date for your exact quantity when you order, and UK delivery is free on orders over £1,000. If a moulding you want is temporarily out, we will tell you the lead time before you commit rather than after. Call 01344 620211 or visit us at 67 High Street, Ascot.

Artworks runs from the whites and creams through the soft neutrals to the strong colours. Duchy Pink sits between the two: it is a proper colour rather than a tint, but a gentle and domestic one. Beside the deeper Artworks colours it reads as light and forgiving, and beside the whites it reads as unmistakably warm. It is the choice for a room you want to feel soft and lived-in rather than formal. Order a sample of two or three shades and hold them against your own light before deciding.

Yes. Cut samples are free to collect from our Ascot showroom, or we can post one to you for the cost of postage. Seeing the glaze in your own light is the surest way to judge how it will sit against your paint, stone and metalwork.

As a guide, add around 10% to your measured area for cuts and breakages, and nearer 15% for a herringbone, diagonal or brick-bond layout. It is also worth keeping a few spare tiles from the same batch in case a repair is ever needed.

Eighteen pieces: the 152 x 152mm field tile, the 152 x 76mm half tile, the 228 x 75mm large brick, bevelled metro tiles at 150 x 75mm and 75 x 75mm, a skirting tile, a plain cornice, an external corner trim, and ten mouldings — Victoria, Egg & Dart, Dentil, Hogarth, Albert, Rope, Astragal, Scroll, Sigma and Omega. Duchy Pink does not include handed corner pieces, an internal corner trim, wrapping pieces or rounded-edge tiles. Everything is sold by the box.

No handed skirting corners are stocked in Duchy Pink, so both internal and external angles are cut and mitred on site. Set out from the most visible corner of the room and work outwards, so that any small cut lands where it will be seen least — typically behind a door or in the corner furthest from the entrance. Allow ten per cent extra for the cuts.