DIY Walls: Tiles for Commitment Phobes - Remodelista
Perfect for renters, change-up artists, and the pattern shy: Moonish of Brooklyn silk screens geometric designs onto thin wooden wall tiles that hang from magnets. Use them to build a backsplash, headboard, or accent wall–and switch (or remove) the pattern as you please. The company is the brainchild of Giovanna and Matt Taylor. After a visit to Giovanna’s mother in the “tiled landscape” of Puglia in Southern Italy... ...the two spent months to developing Giovanna’s idea for grout-free wooden wall tiles that require nothing more than magnets to mount. Moonish wall tiles are made of silkscreened marine grade plywood... ...which is water resistant. Giovanna and Matt screen print the tiles themselves using water-based pigments, and allow customers to select any color combinations from the company’s palette. The tiles can be applied to any smooth surface; here, a $256.50 set of 1977 – Triangles tiles–enough to cover 9 square feet–decorates a kitchen wall. And when you’re ready to remove them altogether, the wall stickers can be pried off using a blade (“the paint on the underlying wall may need a touch up, but in most cases it won’t,” says Giovanna.) B & W – The Victorian creates instant wainscotting on a bathroom wall; $256.50 for a set of 36 tiles. Music – The Fifth, $256.50 for a box of 36 wood tiles. The Modernist set is $198 for 36 wood tiles, each 6 by 6 inches. B & W – Tokyo; $256.50 for a set of 36. Moonish also offers a small line of patterned floor tiles made of 3/4-inch-thick fir plywood. Each is 12 by 12 inches and sells for $26 a tile, including biscuit joiners. Peruse our collection of Tile posts, including Can We Now Call Tiles Sexy?