Handmade Tile for Spaces With Character
Explore handcrafted tile for fireplaces, kitchens, bathrooms, floors, and public spaces. Work with Motawi’s design team to plan a tile installation that fits your space, style, and project needs.
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Choose the path that matches where you are in your project journey.
Motawi Project Tile brings handcrafted field tile, decorative tile, moldings, and glaze colors together for larger installations. Whether you are planning a fireplace, kitchen backsplash, bathroom, floor, or public space, our design team can help you select tile, plan the layout, and prepare your order.
What Is Motawi Project Tile?
Inspired by Arts and Crafts interiors, Brownstone brings together handcrafted detail, rich glaze colors, and timeless shapes designed to work beautifully in both historic and modern spaces.
Featured Collection: Brownstone
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Discover how our art tile, field tile, and relief tile can come together to transform your project into something truly special.
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Design Stories
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A House of Stories, Continued
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A Self-Guided Tour of Motawi Tile in the Wild
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What's In A Glaze? (And Why Yours Has Character)
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![Mid Mod Border Backsplash in Bathroom]()
How to Turn a Public Bathroom Into a Mid Mod Gem
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![A cozy living room fireplace with a fire burning, surrounded by light green ceramic tiles and a wooden mantle, with white cabinets on either side and a wooden floor.]()
Up In Michigan, Down to Earth: A Flora Fireplace
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![Decorative patterned tiles on a wall, with a rectangular arrangement of six tiles featuring geometric designs in black, yellow, and white, surrounded by plain white tile background.]()
Borderline Genius: A Midcentury Bathroom Makeover
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![Cozy living room with a fireplace surrounded by green and decorative ceramic tiles, beige armchair with a patterned pillow, leather armchair with an ottoman, wooden coffee table, framed artwork, and decorative plants and candles.]()
Change of Hearth: A Moravian-Meets-Motawi Fireplace
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![Bright kitchen with wooden cabinets, large windows, island with a dark countertop, ceramic sink, and modern appliances.]()
Bringing in the Sunshine: A Kitchen in Full Bloom
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Craftsman Arched Fireplace
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![Red kettle on a wooden kitchen counter, white brick wall with decorative Charley Harper ceramic tiles, blue wall with red clock showing 4:16, with books at the corner.]()
Charley Harper Subway Tiles
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![Nawal Motawi sitting on a white surface with a dog lying next to her, surrounded by a border of green tiles.]()
How It All Began: Nawal's First Fireplace Commission
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![A fireplace with green tiles and a fire burning, surrounded by wooden paneling and stained glass cabinets on either side, with a colorful abstract painting above and two wall-mounted lights.]()
Arts & Crafts Fireplace
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![Living room with a lit fireplace, wooden mantel, bookshelves, and decorative items, with two arched glass doors leading to another room.]()
Leaves & Berries Fireplace
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![A black showerhead attached to a tiled bathroom wall with beige and brown tiles, and owl-shaped decorative tiles.]()
Clipped Corners Bathroom
