September 15, 2025 | 3:43 Min

From Inspiration to Installation: Turn Flatlays into Your Personal Mood Board

Design Inspirations
If you’re starting a design project, here’s the secret to creating a space that looks and feels intentional: build a mood board. A mood board captures your vision—color, texture, energy—and gives you something tangible to build on.

That’s exactly why we create flatlays.

What’s a Flatlay?

A flatlay is a top-down visual that combines a floor, wall, and accent tile in one cohesive arrangement. It's more than just a product photo, it’s a ready-made mood board built by designers, for your next project.

Each one is layered with intention. The base is typically the floor tile, with wall and accent tiles stacked on top to show contrast, cohesion, or both. But rules are made to be broken, sometimes the accent tile takes center stage, or the wall tile drives the entire palette.

This flatlay contains white marble look rectangle tile, white harlequin mosaic, square stone look mosaic, wood look plank tile, white structured subway tile, and square beige tile with wave design.
This flatlay contains a white marble look countertop, white marble look arabesque tile, encaustic orange concrete look tile, orange concrete look hexagon mosaic, and gray hexagon tile.
Flatlays are where your space begins to take shape.

Build Your Mood Board with the Tile Guide

To make designing easier, we pulled together all of our flatlays and paired them with real room inspiration in our Tile Guide. It’s more than a product directory. It’s a curated collection built around how people search and design.

Want earthy tones? We’ve grouped them together. Leaning into dramatic contrast or vibrant color? Explore palettes that match your mood. Prefer to design a different way? Filter by style, think modern glam, eclectic contrast, or clean contemporary or by the look you’re after, like wood, marble, or encaustic.
This flatlay contains black marble look floor tile, white rectangle marble look floor tile, gold harlequin metal look mosaic, and black marble look circle mosaic.
This flatlay contains glass look undulated tile accented with a stone arabesque mosaic tile, undulated accent tile, concrete look tile, and a three dimensional metal accent tile.
This flatlay contains a marble look tile accented by a mixed marble mosaic, three dimensional mosaic tile, concrete look tile, and wood look chevron tile.
This flaltay contains encaustic tile accented with raked glass look tile, concrete look tile, undulated tile, and straight joint encaustic accent tile.
This flatlay contains a stone look tile accented by a wood look plank, undulated hexagon mosaic, and a stone look hexagon tile.
Every tile in the guide connects to a flatlay, a styled room, and a deeper design story. And if you want to see how it works in your own space? Upload a photo and play with it in our Stylizer tool.
This flatlay contains encaustic tile accented by wood look chevron tile, raked tile, concrete accent tile, and a undulated glass look hexagon tile.
Restaurant with blue subway tile on back walls, blue fluted rectangle tile on side wall, dark dining tables, and blue chairs.
This tile flatlay contains encaustic look tiles accented by a wood look plank, concrete accent tiles, and concrete hexagon mosaic tiles.
Close up of outdoor patio with gray square concrete look encaustic tile on floor, two plants in a pot, ladder, and greenery.

It’s About More Than Matching Tiles

The Tile Guide isn’t just for picking colors. It’s for exploring possibility.
  • Love the warmth of wood? Try it in a wood look tile that’s built to last.
  • Want a wow-worthy powder room? Consider a vibrant pattern tile on the floor and go subtle on the walls.
  • Inspired by natural stone? Get the look without the maintenance.
We give you the tools to push past predictable.

From Mood Board to Masterpiece

Start with a flatlay. Follow the thread in the Tile Guide. Save what speaks to you. View it in your own room. This is how design comes to life—with confidence, clarity, and a little edge.

 

The best spaces start with a strong vision. Let’s build yours.

This flatlay contains a marble look tile accented by concrete look hexagon tiles, marble arabesque tile, penny round mosaic tiles, and a solid white trim.
Bedroom with white square marble look floor tile, white arabesque marble look tile on wall, see through closet on left side of wall, and white bed in middle.
This tile flatlay contains a concrete look tile accented by a long wood look tile, solid concrete look tile, square marble mosaic tile, penny round mosaic tiles, and a large undulated tile.
Residential kitchen with beige tones throughout.