Metro Tiles
Add a touch of timeless style and modern appeal with Metro Tiles. Known for their clean lines and versatile design, Metro Tiles are perfect for creating sleek, contemporary spaces. Whether used in the kitchen, bathroom, or living areas, these tiles bring a chic, urban feel to your interiors, offering both beauty and practicality.
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About Metro Tile
Metro vs. Subway: One Tile, Two Names
| Feature | Metro Tile (EU name) | Subway Tile (US name) |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | Paris Metro, 1900 | NYC subway, 1904 |
| Format | Small glazed brick | Same |
| Classic look | Beveled white brick | Flat white brick |
| Searches | UK and Europe | United States |
| This page | Both, happily | Both, happily |
Ways to Lay Metro Tile
Classic Brick Bond
The half-offset every Metro station used; timeless in any glaze.
Vertical Stack
Upright metro bricks lift low walls; the current European favorite.
Herringbone
The same bricks at angles turn the wall tailored.
Beveled Metro
The pillowed edge that catches light like the Paris original.
Where Metro Tile Works
Kitchen Backsplashes
White metro brick behind counters is the bistro classic on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bathroom Walls
Metro-tiled baths read timeless from London flats to Brooklyn brownstones; half-wall with a border cap is the classic proportion.
Pattern Ideas
Vertical stacks, herringbone panels and two-tone bands answer the most-searched metro question: how to lay it interestingly.
Bars and Cafes
The hospitality wall the format was practically invented for.
Metro Sizes and Proportions
Classic 3x6 Proportion
The 1:2 brick both cities standardized; timeless anywhere.
Skinny Metro
Slender bricks that read craft and vintage; joints do the talking.
XL Metro
Oversized bricks scale the classic up for big walls, fewer joints.
Beveled vs Flat
Bevel shadows like Paris; flat reads cleaner, more New York.
Two-Tone and Border Ideas
| Feature | The Move | The Effect |
|---|---|---|
| White field, dark border cap | The London bathroom classic | Half-wall with pencil trim |
| Two-tone horizontal bands | Bistro stripes | Cafes and laundries |
| Colored metro, white grout | The glaze pops per brick | Feature walls |
| Dark metro, light grout | Industrial graphic | Bars, kitchens |
| Vertical stack accent | Modern column of brick | Niches, entries |
Left to right: Metro Gold Pattern Tile, Metropolitan Pebble Tile, Metro Gris Blend Interlocking 8mm Tile.
Metro Beyond White: Gold, Gris, and Pebble
White 3x6 gloss may define metro tile, but this collection's range is wider than the name suggests. Metro Gold sets the classic format into a patterned mosaic with warm metallic accents for bar fronts and powder rooms. The Metro Gris blend interlocks grays into an 8mm mosaic that delivers the metro look in sheet form, faster to install around outlets and corners than individual tiles. Metropolis Avorio softens the format into ivory. The Metropolitan Pebble is the outlier, a rounded stone mosaic that shares the urban name but trades the brick for organic texture, useful as a shower floor companion to metro walls. The through line is the format's promise: simple pieces, strong rhythm.
Choosing a Metro Size From This Range
The collection carries glossy white metro in 3x6, 4x12, and 4x16. The 3x6 is the heritage size, right for period homes and tight spaces where a bigger brick would look out of scale. The 4x12 is the current default: longer, fewer grout lines, still unmistakably metro. The 4x16 stretches the look toward modern minimalism and suits open kitchens with long uninterrupted walls. A quick rule of scale: the longer the wall, the longer the tile can run before the pattern looks stretched. On a short wall behind a bar sink, 3x6 still wins.
The Details That Read as Metro
What makes a wall unmistakably metro is not the tile alone but three details working together. The first is the bevel: the angled edge that frames each piece and throws the fine shadow lines the style is known for. The glossy whites in this range carry it, and it is the reason a beveled 3x6 wall photographs so well; every tile draws its own outline. The second is grout width. Metro walls want a tight joint, an eighth of an inch or less, in a color one step darker than the tile: white on white disappears, while a pale gray joint quietly draws the grid that gives the wall its rhythm. Charcoal grout on white is the high contrast cafe look, striking on day one, and it commits the room to that statement for a decade. The third is the cap: finish the top course with a matching pencil or bullnose rather than a bare cut edge, especially on half height walls, wainscots, and behind open shelving where the edge is at eye level. Get those three right and even the budget end of the range reads as considered design; miss them and the most expensive tile still reads as a quick refresh.
Installation and Care
Layout First
Center on the focal point and balance end cuts; the brick grid forgives nothing.
Grout Chooses the Era
White melts, gray defines, charcoal goes industrial-bistro.
Beveled Edges Note
Beveled metro shadows its own joints; keep grout lines tidy and even.
Wipe-Clean Glaze
The fired face cannot stain; grout is the only line to mind.
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