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6/5/24

New Installation Photos - June 2024!

 The Photos & Ideas page on the Wet Dog Tile website has hundreds of photos of installations in a wide variety of spaces! You'll find kitchen installations, bathroom installations, and a bunch of other fun areas such as fireplaces, pools, and outdoor showers just to name a few!

Today on the Wet Dog Blog we'd like to share some new installation photos with you. While there will be a few new ones to see here, the real gold mine will be over on the Photos & Ideas page, so be sure to check that out!

 Alright, enough barking - onto the photos!
 
This moose mural is installed in a walk-in shower. Our tile is perfect for wet applications such as this! This mural features our 7" Moose and various leaves from the Lake Dog Collection.

This wet bar backsplash really livens up this space and is packed with Friends from all of our collections! In it you can find deer, bear, dogs, fish, dragonflies, butterflies, ducks, turtles, and much more!

Another bathroom shower installation, this time focused on our Ocean Dog Collection. This mural features our 8" Large Sea Turtle, 6" Large Flat Sea Turtle, 6" Large Crab, and 6" Medium Seahorse just to name a few! The glaze colors really tie in with the surrounding brick glass field tile.

This kitchen backsplash mural is based off of our "Significant Otter" mural from the Ocean Dog Collection. This mural features our 3 otter variants as well as a 4" Small Starfish, 3" Small Crab, and 2 2" Shore Birds.

This mural was a fun one for us and includes a custom sculpted lighthouse! We glazed our handmade mosaic Drops in various warm tones and created a sunset scene that includes our 7" and 5.5" Fluid Fish, 4.5" Jumping Dog, and a few new pieces coming soon to the website! This mural is framed with our handmade Labrador rope molding from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

This kitchen backsplash mural is a true seascape! This features octopus, crabs, turtles, starfish, jellyfish, seahorse, stingray, and so much more!

This custom mosaic mural is a blend of nearly every pre-designed mural from our Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection. Handpainted Freshwater and Fluid Fish from the River Run design, stacked Oars from the Peaceful Pond design, and a Small Heron in the top left corner like the In the Moonlight design!

This custom mural features turtles, dolphins, starfish, seahorses, crabs, shorebirds, shells, and more! Can you spot the dog? This mural is also framed in our Dachshund pencil liners from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

This vertical bathroom shower installation is a wonderful pop of color and and breath of life alongside the surrounding glossy, wavy tile. Our handmade mosaic tile is rated for both dry and wet applications, inside or outside, making it the perfect tile for an installation such as this!
 
These installation photos and more can be found over on the Photos & Ideas page! Have a great rest of your week, everyone!

5/24/24

New Mosaic Textures, Minis, & More!

Hi, everyone!

We recently unveiled the brand new Snow Dog Collection, featuring 6 new murals, 7 new borders, and over 30 new glazed Friends available for purchase! We also revealed new mural and border designs in the updated Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection.

But wait, there's more!

We've added brand new colored glass, natural stone, and glazed ceramic pieces in our Mosaic Textures and Mosaic Minis palettes!

 
Our new Snow Drops are a blend of clear and frosted irregular shaped glass that are only available in the Snowflake (white) color. While similar to the Snowflake Puddles from the Textures Palette, these have a more natural and organic shape that translates well in our handmade borders and murals.
 

Our new Ice Crystals come in nine different colors to choose from. We make these by combining handmade ceramic mosaics with crushed, recycled glass, creating a shimmering, crystalline effect. Photos do not do these justice; they are absolutely beautiful in person! We'll have our process for creating these in a later Wet Dog Blog post!

 Sea Stones, coming in either blue or green, are specialty stones we tumble in-house to create irregular shapes and sizes. Sea Stones are perfect for either blending in with the blue and green hues found in glass Puddles or glazed Friends, or standing out by adding a subtle pop of color!

We've added a new color option to our Skipping Stones; Quartz! Just like Sea Stones, our Skipping Stones are tumbled in-house to create irregular shapes and sizes, but in a much more natural and neutral tone. The Quartz Skipping Stones offer a nice blend of color while not being overbearing or taking away from the beauty of the rest of the border or mural they're included in!

Last, but certainly not least, are our brand new Flurries from the Minis palette! These Flurries are hand-cut and hand-pressed stoneware mosaics which add unique texture and character to any of our mesh-mounted borders or murals. These can be glazed in any of our available glazes! Flurries are pressed with various snowflake patterns and add wonderful texture in borders or murals.

The new Snow Drops, Ice Crystals, Sea Stones, Skipping Stones, and Flurries, can all be found in this beautiful installation photo of three custom murals featuring new Friends from the Snow Dog Collection! Our tile is extremely durable, high quality, made for indoor or outdoor use, wet or dry, and is slip resistant, so it's perfect for a bathroom installation like this!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

5/17/24

Tile for Log Cabins, Mountain Homes, & More!

 We recently unveiled our new Snow Dog Collection that features 6 new murals, 7 borders, and over 30 new Friends! The Snow Dog Collection is perfect for mountain homes, ski lodges, cabins, chalets, or anywhere you'd like to turn into a winter wonderland! With that being said, the Snow Dog Collection isn't the only new thing we unveiled...

The new Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection features a new pre-designed mosaic mural and matching border called "River Run"! These designs feature hand-painted Freshwater Fish, Fluid Fish, Fishing Lures, and many different Leaves! Dark natural river stones and shimmering Larimar Ice Crystals add great contrast and really make these designs pop!

"River Run" border shown in a 6" width

"River Run" mural shown in 18"x18"
 
 While the "River Run" pre-designed mural and border are new, we designed them while taking heavy inspiration from a previous custom installation we did...

The handmade Friends in this floor design are relatively flat to the touch as to not be uncomfortable under foot! Our tile is extremely durable and water resistant, making a floor design like this a wonderful addition to this bathroom!

This bathroom shower mural features many of the same Friends that are in the new "River Run" pre-designed mural. This is framed with our handmade Dachshund pencil liner from the Frames, Liners, & Rails Collection.

The "River Run" design is great for mountain homes, log cabins, farmhouses, or anywhere in a rural setting! Custom borders and murals are an option as well; our artists are able to glaze fish in a variety of designs to match your local favorite aquatic animals!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

5/8/24

Snow Dog Collection: New Murals, Borders, & More!

 The Snow Dog Collection features 6 new murals, 7 new borders, and over 30 new Friends. Vintage skis, snowboards, snowshoes, snowflakes, tree branches, fox, owl, black bears, deer, and more can be found in the Snow Dog Collection. Below are a handful of the new murals and borders. Head on over to the website to see the rest for yourself!

"A Walk in the Snow" 18"x24" mural from the Snow Dog Collection. This mural features the brand new 13" Snowshoes as well the new Snowflakes

"Vintage Skis - Snowy" 6" border from the Snow Dog Collection. This border features our new Small Skis #1, 2, and 3

"Snowflakes - Blue" 6" border from the Snow Dog Collection. This border features the new Snowflakes and Celestite Ice Crystals

The Snow Dog Collection isn't the only change to our website; there are 14 new additions to our Textures and Minis Palettes!

Our new Ice Crystals combine handmade mosaics with crushed recycled glass, creating a shimmering, crystalline effect. There are nine different Ice Crystal colors to choose from!

Sea Stones are specialty stones that are tumbled to create irregular shapes and sizes, available in blue or green shades.

Snowdrops are a new blend of clear and frosted irregular shaped glass that are only available in the "Snowflake" colorway.

Flurries are new hand-cut and hand-pressed stoneware mosaics that add unique texture and character to any of our mesh-mounted borders or murals. These Flurries are shown in a blend of neutral white glazes but can also be glazed in a blend of blues or greens!

Head on over to the Wet Dog website to see the new Snow Dog Collection for yourself!

Have a great day, everyone!

5/2/24

The New Snow Dog Collection!

Hi, everyone!

Last week we announced our new Snow Dog Collection and gave a special sneak peek at all the upcoming changes to the Wet Dog website. We're happy to say that this week the new Snow Dog Collection has gone live and is available now! 

The Snow Dog Collection features 6 new murals, 7 new borders, and over 30 new Friends. Vintage skis, snowboards, snowshoes, snowflakes, tree branches, fox, owl, black bears, deer, and more can be found in the Snow Dog Collection. Below are a handful of the new murals and borders. Head on over to the website to see the rest for yourself!

Vintage Boards - Arctic border from the Snow Dog Collection, featuring the new Small Snowboards and Snowflake #7!

After the Snowfall mural from the Snow Dog Collection, featuring the new Snowy Owl, Grey Fox, Doe, Fawn, and Branches

Snowflakes - Green border from the Snow Dog Collection, featuring our new Snowflakes as well as new Ice Crystal textures and Flurries minis (more on that below)!

Vintage Skis - Snowy mural from the Snow Dog Collection, featuring the new Medium Skis

The Snow Dog Collection isn't the only change to our website; we've combined our Lake Dog and Pond Dog Collections and created the Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection! The LPR Collection features the same beloved murals, borders, and Friends, with a welcomed addition of a new mural and matching border called "River Run"!  Our Textures and Minis Palettes have also been updated with new Snowdrops, Sea Stones, and Ice Crystals, all of which can be found in these new border and mural designs!

River Run border from the Lake, Pond, & River Collection, featuring hand-painted Freshwater Fish, Fishing Lures, and more new Ice Crystals

River Run mural from the Lake, Pond, & River Dog Collection, featuring hand-painted Freshwater Fish, Fishing Lures, and more new Ice Crystals

We're so excited to be able to share this with everyone!

Hope you enjoy