Hakatai glass mosaic tile found a home “deep in the heart” of Texas when Urban Jobe Architecture specified the top-selling Classic series for the remodel of the kitchen and two bathrooms of a mid-‘80s Austin residence. After discovering Hakatai nearly five years ago during her own home remodel, Camille Urban Jobe, AIA, kept its mosaic glass tile collections in her “back pocket” until the need to add color and texture arose for the remodel of a young couple’s home.
Urban Jobe, who holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, had her clients visit the Hakatai website and select all the colors they liked from the Classic series. She then designed all three spaces, including materials and appliances, around the glass mosaic tile colors they chose. With a minimalist, neutral theme in mind, Urban Jobe added texture to the kitchen space with a Classic Oak Blend backsplash in two different sections of the open design kitchen in the center of the home. The ¾” x ¾” glass mosaics helped create an entirely new look and style for the kitchen, which she describes as “crisp and handsome.”
For the master bath, Urban Jobe created a beautiful new space with glass mosaics in the colors Teak and Hail. She created a custom blend using Hakatai’s online custom blend tool for the shower interior and a decorative half-wall, which is complemented by solid color tile in the tub surround, vanity, and soap and shampoo niches.
The young Austin homeowners had one small child and another on the way during the remodeling of the home, so Urban Jobe designed the second bath with children in mind. The resulting bathroom is equally as breathtaking and interesting as the master bath. Bursting with clean, refreshing color, Urban Jobe created a full wall with glass mosaics in the color Ice Blue, that runs directly into the tub and shower walls. With water-inspired colors as the theme, she made the room pop with Classic Light Blue/Ice Green Blend tile for the shower niche. This playful accent serves to highlight the smooth-looking, solid color that covers the rest of the room.
“I had used Hakatai about five years ago when remodeling my own home,” said Urban Jobe. “I don’t have any complaints at all. They have a wide range of colors available and the tiles are always very regular in size, which makes it very flexible and a lot of fun to design with. They have a lot of great sales, and most of Hakatai products come mesh-mounted which the installers find much easier to work with.”
Thank you to Casey Woods Photography for the fantastic photos!
