Feature Tiles & Mosaics

Mosaic is small-format tile, and the reason to use it is almost always the same: it does something a large tile cannot. It wraps a curve, lines a niche, follows the fall of a shower floor, and turns a splashback into the feature rather than the background. The choice between natural stone and glass comes down to where it is going and how much water it will see.

Travertine, marble and limestone mosaics belong in bathrooms, powder rooms and interior feature walls. Stone carries depth and variation that glass cannot imitate, and formats like kit kat, penny round, chevron and fluted battens each throw light differently across a wall. Natural stone is porous, so it needs sealing and it is not the right call for a submerged pool wall. Above the waterline, in a shower or on a splashback, it is unmatched.

Glass mosaic is non-porous, thermal-shock resistant and chemically stable, which is why it is the standard for pools, spas and water features. It never needs sealing, it does not stain, and it holds colour under UV. It also changes the colour of the water itself, which is the part most people underestimate: a pale blue reads as a shallow bay, a deep navy reads as depth, black turns the surface into a mirror and green reads as a natural rock pool.

For anything underfoot and wet, pool steps, ledges, shower floors, check the slip rating rather than trusting the finish. Many of our matte glass mosaics carry an R11 rating with a DCOF above 0.60, which makes them usable on floors as well as walls. Gloss finishes are for walls and submerged surfaces where nobody is walking. Every product page in this range lists the rating where the manufacturer publishes one.

Glass runs in 19mm penny round, 25mm and 50mm. Smaller tesserae follow tighter curves and suit spas, steps and organic pool shapes. The 50mm format means fewer grout lines across a large pool, which reads cleaner and installs faster. Stone runs across kit kat, penny round, chevron, batten and fluted profiles. Everything is sold per square metre, with sheet size and finish listed on each product page.

Colour behaves very differently wet than it does dry, and very differently on a sample board than across a whole pool. If you are specifying for water, talk to us first. We would rather spend ten minutes getting it right than have you order forty square metres of the wrong blue.