Tile & surface studio serving Venice

Where we work

Venice Island and the historic downtown, Golden Beach and the Gulf frontage, Venice Gardens, South Venice, Nokomis and Casey Key to the north, and the newer developments east of the trail.

Two markets, one city

The island and downtown are older — 1920s through 1960s — with the architectural code, smaller rooms, and slabs and foundations of varying ages. Renovation here is careful work and the constraint is usually what is already there rather than what you want.

East of the trail is newer and growing quickly, much of it built in the last twenty years to modern tolerances. That is straightforward large-format territory: flat slabs, open plans, and the levelling budget an older island house needs is generally not required.

Knowing which of those two you are in changes the quote more than the tile does.

Casey Key and the Gulf frontage

Casey Key is a barrier island and behaves like one: full salt exposure, limited access, and single-lane stretches that make delivery logistics a genuine part of the schedule. The same metal rules apply as on Siesta and Anna Maria — stainless or marine grade for anything exposed.

Who lives here

Venice skews older than Lakewood Ranch by a wide margin, and it shows up in what people ask for. Slip resistance in a wet area is a serious question here rather than a box to tick, curbless showers are asked for by name, and the request is usually a floor that will still be right in fifteen years rather than one that is current now.

Those are good constraints to design to. A curbless entry done properly — with the fall built in, a linear drain and a tile with a real wet coefficient of friction — is one of the better things you can do to a Florida bathroom, and it is worth doing once rather than twice.