Villa Lagoon Tile
Mosaic Cement Tile

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How to measure for Villa Lagoon Tile

Our tiles come in 10"x10" squares. It is easiest to figure out how many tiles to order if you calculate your floor's measurements in inches. Multiply the number of feet by 12 inches per foot. Then divide the number of inches by 10 (since our tiles are 10 inch per side)... equals the number of tiles in that direction.  Do the same for the other dimension of the room. Multiply the # of tiles for length by the # of tiles for the width to get the total to order.

For example, a room 14 ft x 12 ft would be 168" x 144". If you divide those measurements by 10, then you get the number of tiles in each direction.  This is 16.8 tiles x 14.4 tiles. Round up. Now it is 17 tiles x 15 tiles which equals a total of 255 tiles for the room. We suggest that you order about 5% extra for 'just in case'.  So 255 tiles plus 13 more is 268 tiles to order.

Our tiles are meant to be laid very close together,so just ignore the grout space for the purpose of figuring out how many to order.

If your room has a closet, we recommend that you continue your tiles into the closet floor.

For rooms with a pattern and a border you will need to measure a little differently. We can help with that as well. Decide if you want your 'rug' design to be centered in your room, or how you want it placed.

Try to divide your room in rectangles if it is irregular shaped.

Print out our tile layout graph paper. It is labeled in tiles and inches. Try different combinations of field tiles and borders and solids up to the wall  for up  to a 13 x 22 foot room. For a larger room, print this paper twice and tape them together.

You can do a layout using crayons or cut out pieces of colored paper to represent your design layout to best fit the measurements of your space.

It looks great to use solid color tiles on the outsides of your patterned central feature. You can then trim the solids as necessary to fit in the space between the central 'rug' part of the floor and no one will notice if the solids are slightly wider or more narrow on one side or the other. When your installer lays your tiles, he or she needs to start from the center of the room but they will know that. Just give them your diagram,so you know that everyone is "on the same page"...take nothing for granted when it comes to the workers understanding your intent.