Decorative tile & backsplash tile, hand painted since 1922

Colorful tiles for interior and exterior decorating - colorful tile designs

It is our passion to create unique and beautifully colorful tiles that people choose to decorate and design their homes with. The colorful tiles on this site are not only used for kitchen backsplashes or bathroom walls, but also for interior decorating of every room in your home, and exterior decorating of outside living spaces such as patios, garden walls or fountain backsplashes. The backsplash tile area in your kitchen is one of the most important design elements in your house, because the kitchen is where you spend a lot of your time, it is a central essential living space. Your family gets together in the kitchen for meals, you cook there and maybe have friends over for coffee, so a nice decorative tile is needed. You have to spend some time choosing the right tile backsplash - color, design, and size - because you will see this area every day.

Unique decorative tile & tile murals

The standard space for a kitchen backsplash is usually 18 inches in height. This height is the measured space of the backsplash between the kitchen counter top and the cupboards. This is where you can be very creative in using colorful tile to decorate your kitchen backsplash. You can create a beautiful effect with ceramic tiles and tile murals which really appeals to you, not just your designer. You will after all, use your kitchen every day, so which tiles you install there is important. In the picture to the left, Shelley chose the Peacock and Pomegranate backsplash tile, and installed it in her kitchen. As you can see, she has a height greater than 18 inches here, between her countertop and the range hood. She used this tile mural because it is a unique design with peacocks and pomegranates, and has vibrant, fresh colors. The background is light blue, and there are bright reds, yellows, greens and cobalt blues there. It has definitely added a lot of color in her kitchen. The size of the tile mural here is 24 x 30 inches. We also have tiles for backsplashes that are 18 inches high.

Peacock and red Pomegranates in a kitchen wall

In this kitchen, the Peacock and red pomegranate tile mural covers the area above the cook top. The size is 30 x 24 inches, including the floral border tile going around the mural. The color of the mural is light blue, and our client was able to find matching aqua blue field tiles to cover the rest of the wall. Notice that the field tiles are smaller than the mural tiles - the size contrast works well. All the colors in the kitchen are vibrant. There are reds, browns, blues and yellows. Together with plenty of natural light coming through the windows, this makes it a very lively looking kitchen. Anything but boring or mundane.

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

101 must have tiles

Tulip and pomegranate decorative tile as seen in House beautiful magazine

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 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 kitchen tiles and wall installations, table tops, fireplace tiles and bathroom walls.

Features of our hand painted 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 pottery

See our selection of hand painted pottery dishes and bowls

How to use this site to buy your tiles 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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