Coverings 2014

It was so wonderful to see everyone at Coverings this year! It seemed like everyone was in good spirits and having lots of fun. We got lots of terrific feedback on our new products too. Here's a little recap in case you didn't make it to the show this year. Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas after all!

Building the booth

The outside of the booth featured factory images

The tiled entry

Building the booth was quite an undertaking! It took a week of hard work at the convention center to put it up and getting to that point was months in the making back in Portland.

From the very beginning

Our focus this year was on new Sales Tools for our vendors. We offered the newest version of our Sales Tools Credenza and a great new way to show our tremendous color palette and our shapes and sizes in new framed display panels.

The Sales Tool Credenza with the 2x4 Color Palette Panels

The Color Panels also come in 2x2's which allows you to show all our colors in a smaller foot print

The Shapes and Sizes Panels show our best selling field tile sizes and shapes and all of our mosaic sizes are grouped together so you know which ones come mesh mounted.

The Mosaic Package

The Mosaic Package is a fun new way to display our huge assortment of mosaic patterns. The package comes with 20 Mosaic Pattern 12x12 display boards for the wall and a floor box that can either hold 32 more display boards or 56 white pattern tool boards. With the rising popularity of mosaics this is a terrific new package for any showroom.

The Mosaic Package

Large display panels show off new product

We had lots of new product to show as well! This wall featured large displays of our new pieces. Larger format tile has been very popular lately and we have some new sizes available like 6x18! We also presented the new Textured tiles at the show along with our new dimensional tiles - like the new 5x10 Bevel and the Recessed Frame series. Check out the new Catalog Addendum available on our website. 

Michael Pratt & Tim Roberts inspecting the booth before the show opens

The booth was packed for days!

We took in the sights

We found a little time for fun at the Art Tile Party

Packed up and going home.

We found a little time to take in the sights and we had fun at the Art Tile Party and before we knew it, it was time to pack it up and go home. We hope you had a great time at the show too! Let us know if there is any info you'd like about our new products or how to order the new sales tools for your showroom. 

Cookies!

 We've been having fun in the showroom making cookies! It's a lot like making tile really... 


Roll them out and bake them -

 Glaze them up all sparkly and pretty - 

 Box them up and ship them out! 

Hope all your holiday preparations are going as smoothly! 

A Thank You Party

We wanted to tell the contractors and installers we work with how much we appreciate their business and their fabulous tile setting skills, so we threw a little thank you party. Thanks everyone for all your support and patronage! Robin made delicious Pulled Pork sandwiches and there were Bratwursts from Tails & Trotters, baked beans and lots of beer. A good time was had by all.

Making the Baked Beans

Setting up the buffet

The Bucket o Beer attracts a crowd

Grab a Bratwurst!

Great sandwiches!

Hanging out with MP

Cleaning up

Thanks again  to everyone!

Our Open House was a Great Success! (Part Two: Our local tile makers)

This is the second half of the post on our Open House for the Architect & Design community. The party was a big hit and all the hard work really paid off. Many, many thanks are due to all the local tile companies who participated! Our vendors from Oregon and Washington brought new displays and artwork and all sorts of wonderful stuff for everyone to see. The showroom really looked fantastic filled with tables of new product. So thanks again everyone for taking part and helping to make this event a great success.

Part Two: Our Local Vendors from Oregon and Washington

Kristen from Architerra NW & Steve from Tile Restoration

Architerra NW's beautiful new textures.

Some new decorative tiles from Tile Restoration.



Steve from Fine Art Tileworks and his giant rabbit sculpture.



A collection  from Fine Art Tileworks.

Timothy and Robert from M2 Glass

Stunning new Kaleidoscope glass patterns from M2.



Justyn from Metolius Ridge and Margaret Kuhn



Some new designs from Metolius Ridge.

The Osaka Mural from Metolius Ridge



 Be sure to look for Margaret's murals at New Season's newest store on SE Hawthorne.





The Tempest Tileworks display wall




A peek at Portland Cement Co.'s new wood grain planking



We really had a blast hosting this event and hope that you all can make it to the next one! Come on by until then to see the great changes we've been making in the showroom.

Our Open House was a Great Success!

On November 4th we had an open house for the Architecture & Design community. It was a great success! We had a terrific turn out and we all had a wonderful evening. All the hard work we put into getting the showroom painted and the displays refreshed and rehung really paid off. Many thanks to everyone who took part in getting it all ready and to the design community for spending the evening with us. There are a ton of pictures (thanks Angela and Alison!) so I'll post them in two entries.

Part One: The Guests!




We caught up with old friends and made some new friends.

 

There was a  raffle!





The raffle prizes were made by our local tile companies and artists. I wanted to win them all!

 

 

There were factory tours to explain how we make our handmade tile.



Yummy snacks.



All the displays have been redesigned



Lots of new images from Tempest Tileworks



Justyn from Metolius Ridge explaining her new designs



Todd from Portland Cement Co. talks about his cast cement tile.

We had a great time hosting this event! We hope you can make it to the next one. Check back for the next post showing off all the beautiful tile from our local designers.