The problem
Nobody can read a tile catalogue. A homeowner redoing a bathroom is asked to imagine a whole room from a small swatch, hesitates, and delays the decision — or picks safely and regrets it. Architects lose days to physical sampling and client back-and-forth.
What it does
Tile View is a free design tool that lets anyone see how tiles will look in their room before buying a single one. Choose a room, set your preferences, pick a scheme, and see a realistic view of the finished space in a few minutes. It runs in any browser — no app, no login to explore.
The six-step wizard takes three to five minutes: choose the room type and size, set colour mood, style, budget and any special needs, then pick from design schemes ranked by how well they match. Each zone of the scheme — lower wall, highlighter strip, upper wall, floor — takes its own tile, which is how rooms are actually designed.
The preview offers three views: a 3D corner render of two walls and a floor with adjustable tilt and turn, a flat wall grid, and a top-down floor grid. Grout colour is adjustable across ten options.
It closes the loop commercially too. A finished design leads straight into Tile Calc for quantities and cost, or into “find a dealer near me” — and dealer leads arrive in Sales360 with the full design context attached, not just a name and number.
Who it is for
Homeowners
See a room in tiles before buying any, and share the design with family or a contractor.
Architects and contractors
Show a client the finished look rather than describing it.
Tile brands and dealers
Put your catalogue in front of people actively planning to buy, and receive briefed leads rather than cold enquiries.
What you get
- Six-step guided design wizard, three to five minutes end to end
- Six room types — bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, balcony, foyer
- Preference matching on colour mood, style, budget, special needs and brand
- Design schemes ranked by fit, with best-match and good-match badges
- Zone-based selection — a separate tile for each surface of a scheme
- Upload a photo of a tile you already like
- Three preview modes: 3D room corner, flat wall grid, top-down floor grid
- Adjustable 3D angle and ten grout colours
- Hands off to Tile Calc for quantity and cost
- Dealer lead capture with the design attached, straight into Sales360
- Browser-based on mobile and desktop, no install or login to explore
How it works
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01
Choose the room
Bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, balcony or foyer — and the approximate size.
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Pick the tiles
Browse the catalogue, upload a photograph of a tile, or choose a colour. Set orientation per zone.
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See it live
Room view, wall view and floor view. Adjust the grout colour, zoom in, and share the design as a link.
What changes
The difference it makes
Before
- A single tile sample and imagination
- Square thumbnails whatever the tile shape
- Grout colour decided at installation
- Explaining the idea over the phone
- Cold enquiries with no detail
After
- The design at room scale, before committing
- True proportions — a plank looks like a plank
- Wall and floor grout chosen and previewed separately
- A shareable link for family, architect or contractor
- Leads that arrive with the room, tiles and sizes already chosen
Built with
- JavaScript
- WebGL
- Canvas
- React
- PHP
- MySQL
- CDN
Common questions
Does it replace seeing a physical sample?
No, and it is not meant to. Shade variation, lighting and finish cannot be judged from a screen. It narrows the shortlist so the samples that get ordered are the right ones.
Does it need an app or a login?
Neither. It runs in a browser on a phone, and takes about five minutes.
Can a customer use their own tile image?
Yes — photograph a tile in a showroom, upload it, and see it in the room straight away.
What do tile brands get from it?
Your catalogue in front of homeowners who are actively planning, and every enquiry arriving with the room type, tile selections and sizes already captured.