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Backsplash tile & Decorative tile, hand painted since 1922

Decorate and remodel with unique decorative tile backsplash.

At Jerusalem Pottery, we personally hand paint and create unique decorative tile and backsplash tile for your home interior and exterior decorating needs. It is this personal touch which gives our tile and your backsplash its authentic look and value, and gives you the chance to create a beautiful backsplash tile for your kitchen tile or bathroom wall.

Tile mural with blue border tiles for kitchen backsplash

Unique decorative tiles & backsplash tile murals

for kitchen tile backsplash, bathroom tile, fireplace tile, patio, stair riser.

When you choose one of our tile backsplash murals, you know that it will give you many years of worry free enjoyment, and a beautiful piece of interior decor.

Use the menu on the left to discover some of our unique decorative tile designs of Elegant peacocks, Tree of life tile backsplash, Birds of paradise, palm tree, Pomegranate tree and peacocks backsplash tile, large cobalt blue birds mural, Vine tree with birds, and multi purpose six inch accents.

Decorative tile

Create magnificent backsplash tile using decorative tile

Decorative backsplash tile, Peacock and pomegranates, 24 x 18 inches

In the backsplash tile to the left, the Peacock and pomegranate tile backsplash became the focal point of the kitchen tile. The idea here was dual - to use tiles to fit in with the rest of the kitchen, as well as stand out and contrast beautifully. This backsplash tile mural is available with border tiles.

Other murals for backsplash tile:

Blue and white floral tile backsplash

Blue and white floral backsplash tile, 18 x 18 inches

Blue and white floral decorative tile

In the picture to the left, one client used the 18 x 18 inch blue and white floral design to create a beautiful focal point in her kitchen backsplash tile. These tiles do not fade in color, and are suitable for kitchen walls, bathroom walls, fireplace tops and outdoor locations.

5 ways to use decorative tile murals to decorate your home

This article explains and gives ideas on how to use decorative tile to decorate different locations in your home.

1 - One of the most obvious places you can use a decorative tile mural is your kitchen backsplash. The 18 inches or more of space between your kitchen cabinets and countertop, is a prime location to install a beautifully designed ceramic tile mural. The kitchen tile mural itself can be as wide as you need, and the height depends on how much space you have.

The advantages of using such a kitchen tile mural to decorate your kitchen wall are many, ranging from the practical to the aesthetic. First, you need to tile your backsplash to protect your kitchen wall from heat, moisture, grease stains etc., to which the kitchen wall is subject to... continued with photos

Press and testimonials on our decorative tile

New York Times, 1985 - "Against a cobalt blue background, a mandala-like phoenix in rust brown, pale blue, yellow, green and cream, flexes its wings until the tips nearly touch. Grazing amid long stemmed flowers, a gazelle looks up, perhaps to sniff the air. On one side of an enormous, muted-green and yellow "Tree of Life", a lion falls on a frightened gazelle: on the other, two other gazelles continue to feed serenely. However modest in size, each scene is complete, and thanks to precise design and understated color, meditatively alive..." - More from the article

Congressman Frank Pallone - "M. Karakashian, the founder, was the painter of the original group from Kutahya, and the painting of his descendants’ work still excels. I purchased a yellow vase with deer prancing and a blue plate with two peacocks entwined. There is nothing that compares to the various shades of blue in the Armenian ceramics of Jerusalem." - Full article

House beautiful magazine, November 2006

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Tulip and pomegranate decorative tile as seen in House beautiful magazine

Tulip and pomegranate decorative tile

Pictures of client tile installations - make your home decor unique

Tree of life tile
mural in kitchen
backsplash tile

Latest photo

Decorative tile Fireplace mural

Unique ceramic decorative tile - accents for interior decorating

We have been making unique hand painted decorative tiles by family tradition since 1922, when a group of artists, including my grandfather, were brought to renovate the decorative tiles of the Dome of the Rock. Since then, we have been producing our hand painted tiles and pottery, which have decorated private homes and public buildings. About us ... Our unique Christian tile - Ichthus and Yeshua , Biblical verses and passages

Our Wall murals tile backsplash and Wall tile.

Our tiles are hand painted with vivid colors, glazed, and fired at 1850 degrees Fahrenheit, so that the colors are permanently sealed in, and don't wash away. Perfect for backsplashes in kitchen tile and wall installations, table tops, fireplace tiles and bathroom walls.

Features of our decorative tile and backsplash tile:

Carefully designed and painted tiles with bright, vivid colors, made by years of experience
Use for kitchen tile walls, backsplash tile, fireplaces, bathroom walls, table tops
Unique and eye catching artistic tile designs from a different place and time
Hand painted, glazed, and fired to last a life time
For outdoor and indoor decorating
Colors are sealed in permanently, they don't fade or wash away
We are one of the last remaining places in the world where this Armenian ceramic tile art is still made with precision and care.
Guaranteed delivery or your money back

Hand painted Armenian pottery

See our selection of hand painted pottery dishes and bowls

How to use this site to buy your backsplash tile online

Use the menu on the left to browse tile categories and to choose your art tiles/themes, and add them to your shopping basket. You can then check out and pay using your credit card, or have us call you to take your order over the phone.

If you have any decorative tile questions, or need assistance with tile mural sizes or kitchen tile questions. please email us.

Hagop Karakashian
Jerusalem Pottery

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