You live with your kitchen every day. The tile matters. The hands installing it matter more. Done right, it looks like it belongs.
Indoor Kitchens
What We Install
Floors
Porcelain, ceramic, or natural stone.
Backsplashes
From the countertop to the underside of the cabinets, or full height to the ceiling. Mosaics, handcrafted Zellige, and ceramic.
Feature Walls & Islands
Herringbone, chevron, fluted vertical tile, or stacked mosaic.
Transitions
Flat, seamless connections where kitchen tile meets hardwood, carpet, or the patio, without a bulky transition strip across the doorway.
Indoor Kitchens
How It's Done Right
The Substrate First
We test every floor for flatness and level the areas that aren’t. When appropriate, we install an anti-fracture membrane to help prevent minor substrate movement from cracking the tile above.
A Pre-Planned Layout
The entire layout is planned before the first cut, so the margins are even and the lines land where they should around outlets, switches, plumbing, the range hood, and appliance openings.
A Flush Floor
Mechanical leveling systems help keep adjoining tiles flush, minimizing lippage, with no raised edges to catch a foot.
Sealed for Real Life
Stain-resistant grout, epoxy where grease and food are most likely to collect, and flexible silicone—not rigid grout—where tile meets cabinets, countertops, and corners, helping prevent cracking as the home naturally moves.
Outdoor Kitchens
What We Install
A different environment with different demands. An outdoor kitchen faces direct sun, rain, moisture, and the daily swing between heat and cool. The same tile, set the same way, will not survive both places. Outdoor work requires a different approach from the surface down.
Outdoor Floors
Porcelain pavers and exterior-rated tile, dense enough to shed water and hold color in the sun.
Grill & Appliance Surrounds
Cladding around the grill, burners, and built-in appliances, in materials suited to the heat and the setting.
Outdoor Backsplashes
Behind the grill and bar, where splatter and weather meet.
Bars & Islands
Faces and surrounds that take sun, rain, and use.
Stone Cladding & Feature Walls
Stone and tile applied to walls, columns, and outdoor structures.
Outdoor Kitchens
Why Outdoor Installations Fail
We test every floor for flatness and level the areas that aren’t. When appropriate, we install an anti-fracture membrane to help prevent minor substrate movement from cracking the tile above.
Tile lifts
Laid over a surface that was never cleaned, primed, or checked for flat, the bond never fully takes—and weather finishes the job. Within a season or two, the tile comes up.
Tile cracks
A concrete surface in the sun expands all day and contracts at night. With no anti-fracture membrane beneath it and no expansion joints planned into the field, that movement goes straight into the tile.
Both are prevented before the first tile is set: the surface cleaned and leveled, drainage and slope built in so water runs off instead of pooling, movement joints planned into the layout, exterior-grade mortar, and grout sealed against the weather.
Choosing the Right Installer
There are hundreds of places to buy tile, and dozens of people who will install it. On the phone, they all sound qualified. Here is how to tell them apart. A master installer should be able to explain three things clearly before they are ever hired:
The Process — What the job involves, step by step, and in what order. If they cannot explain the process, they have not planned yours.
The Preparation — Exactly what needs to happen to the substrate before the first tile is set. A quality installation relies on the hidden work underneath.
The Warranty — What they stand behind after the tools are packed up, and for how long. Either they do, or they don’t.
Ask those three questions. The answers will tell you exactly who you’re dealing with. The tile is the investment. The hands installing it determine whether it lasts.
My Signature
In the End...
You’ll see the finished kitchen—the clean line along the counter, the backsplash that lands right at every edge, the floor flush and level. The right tile, set by the right hands, is a kitchen you’ll still love twenty years from now.
When the work is finished, Luis leaves more than a beautiful kitchen. He leaves his signature behind.
Luis measures the space and checks the substrate.
If something won’t work, he’ll tell you before anything begins.