{"id":18,"date":"2012-04-09T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/villalagoontile.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:51:11","slug":"a-tropical-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/a-tropical-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tropical Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/installations\/basketweave-tile-tw-condo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/installations\/basketweave-tile-tw-condo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Our Basket Weave tile has been put to great effect in a Gulf Coast rental beach condo. Originally the living room and kitchen areas were tiled when the owner bought the condo and the bedrooms were carpeted. As you can imagine, in a sandy environment, the carpets were like sand magnets and resulted in numerous rental management charges for &#8216;carpet cleaning&#8217; .<\/p>\n<p>Now the new Basket Weave tile floors lend a great tropical look to both bedrooms and provide a floor that is much easier to keep clean.<\/p>\n<p>The new Basket Weave tile is sealed with our low-gloss water-based sealant. The first coat was as a grout release and an additional thin coat was added after grouting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/installations\/basketweave-tile-bdrm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/installations\/basketweave-tile-bdrm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Basket Weave tile has been put to great effect in a Gulf Coast rental beach condo. Originally the living room and kitchen areas were tiled when the owner bought the condo and the bedrooms were carpeted. As you can imagine, in a sandy environment, the carpets were like sand magnets and resulted in numerous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/a-tropical-touch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Tropical Touch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cement-tile-installations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Tropical Touch - Cement Style<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/a-tropical-touch\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lundy P. 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