Windsor Blue Field Tile 152x152mm

Yes. The glaze is impervious and unaffected by constant water, so these tiles are entirely at home in a shower enclosure, above a bath, behind a sink or across a wet-room wall. What matters is what sits behind and between them: a properly tanked substrate, a white flexible adhesive and a grout rated for wet areas. The tiles themselves never need sealing.

No — Artworks is a wall range only. The ceramic body is not rated for foot traffic and the gloss glaze would scratch and lose its shine quickly underfoot. If you want a floor beneath a Windsor Blue wall, a geometric or encaustic-effect floor tile is the natural partner, and our team can help you pair one.

The Artworks glazes are applied over a pressed ceramic body, and slight variation from tile to tile is part of the character rather than a fault — it is what keeps a large tiled wall from looking printed. On a gloss mid-blue that variation reads as depth rather than as patchiness. Order the whole of a room in one go where you can, and mix tiles from several boxes as you set out rather than working box by box.

Use a white flexible adhesive. The grout is a real design decision here rather than a default. Brilliant white is a legitimate choice — it puts the tile squarely in the blue-and-white tradition and makes the wall read crisp and graphic — but it emphasises every joint, so your setting-out has to be accurate and the effect is a grid as much as a colour. If you would rather the blue carried the wall and the joints stayed quiet, use a soft mid-grey a shade or two lighter than the tile. The one to avoid is a warm beige or greige, which muddies a clean mid-blue and does it no favours. Grout haze shows readily on gloss, so sponge each section as you go.

The range is usually held in stock and we can normally despatch within a few working days; mouldings and trims occasionally run on a longer lead time, so it is worth a call on 01344 620211 before you plan the fitting week. UK delivery is free on orders over £1,000, and we can hold a delivery back until your site is ready.

Windsor Blue is the versatile one. Original Style describe it as a versatile mid-blue, rich and glossy, like looking into deep water — and that is the point of it: it sits in the middle of the family, without the strong cast that makes the others more specific. The alternatives each pull in a direction. One is a warmer blue with a green cast to it. One is a deep indigo for a much more dramatic room. One is a blue-grey that shifts with the light and reads almost as a neutral. If you want a blue that behaves like a blue and works with most schemes, this is usually the answer — but order cut samples of two or three and look at them on the actual wall, because blues change more between rooms than any other family in the range.

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.

Fifteen: the 152mm field tile and its half tile, 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. Windsor Blue is not made as a large brick or as a bevelled metro tile, so a scheme needing one of those formats will have to take it from a different colour. Original Style also make rectangles, round-edge tiles, internal corners and corner wrapping pieces to order in this colour — those carry minimum quantities and longer lead times, so call us on 01344 620211 if you need one.

A 152 x 152mm tile covers 0.023m², so a square metre of wall takes about 43 of them. Boxes hold 22 and cover 0.511m² as supplied — just under two boxes to the square metre. Measure the tiled area, add around 10% for cuts, then round up to whole boxes, and order any half tiles, trims or mouldings at the same time so everything comes from one batch.

White is the classic answer and the oldest one — blue and white has been the staple of English decoration since the first Delftware, and a mid-blue tiled wall against white paintwork, white sanitaryware and white china is a scheme that has never really gone out. Beyond that it is accommodating: warm white and stone paintwork, oak, painted joinery in a soft grey or green, and a black and white geometric floor all sit comfortably with it. Because it is a true mid-blue without a strong warm or cool bias, it does not force your hand on metalwork — brass, chrome and nickel all work, so choose by the room rather than by the tile.

You can, and it is the historically correct choice if blue and white is what you are after — it draws a clean pale grid across the wall and each tile reads as a separate square, which is exactly the Delft and spongeware effect. Two things to know before you commit. It puts every joint on display, so the setting-out has to be good and any wander in the courses will show. And it makes the wall read as a pattern rather than as a field of colour, which is lovely in a small area such as a splashback and can be busy across a whole room. A soft mid-grey gives you the blue without the grid; white gives you the tradition. Come and see both in the showroom if you are torn.

It is a 152 x 30mm piece with a rounded, fully glazed face that wraps an outside corner, so instead of two cut tile edges meeting at an arris you get one continuous curve of glaze. That matters more than it sounds: a cut tile shows the pale unglazed body along the cut, and against a mid-blue that line is conspicuous. The trim also gives a softer edge to walk past and a much easier one to keep clean. Four to a box covering 0.6 linear metres. If your scheme has an outside corner — a chimney breast, a boxed pipe, a window reveal — this is the piece that finishes it properly.