Large format porcelain leads this showroom
Fairfax is the porcelain store in our network. 12x24 is the format this location is stocked deepest in, with 18x36 and 24x24 behind it and planks running up to 8x48. Those are the sizes a contemporary Northern Virginia renovation asks for, and they are the ones where a showroom changes a decision, because a 24x24 standing against a wall is the only way to understand what it will do to a floor.
The series here are production lines, not quarries: Matrix, Atelier, Ecocem, Cemento, Runway. Concrete effect and marble effect are the two largest looks, with limestone, stone, travertine and wood effects behind them.
Marble and mosaic on the same floor
The natural stone side is smaller here than in Carlstadt but it is the part people drive in for. Calacatta, Carrara and Bianco are the white marbles on display, and the honed finishes outnumber the polished ones, which is the way a Virginia house tends to go.
Mosaic is the third group, mostly in the sheet formats that finish a bathroom. The mosaic range is the catalog version; what is in Fairfax is a working selection.
What Northern Virginia comes here for
The store is in Merrifield, just outside the Beltway on the Fairfax side, with the Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro stop on the Orange Line a short walk away. Vienna, Falls Church and Annandale are the immediate neighbors, and Arlington and Alexandria are a short run in along Route 50 or the Beltway.
Further west, I-66 carries Centreville and, by way of VA-234, Manassas. Our Chantilly location sits on that side of the metro area and is the nearer one for those.
Color and finish on the Fairfax floor
White leads the selection here, then gray, then beige, which is the palette a Virginia kitchen and bathroom tends to be built on. Black is a real group here, and it is mostly in the accent and small format pieces.
On finish the split is close to even between honed, matte and polished, and a lappato group sits alongside those three. Lappato is the half-polished surface that reads as satin, and it is the one most people have seen without knowing the word.
Seeing a tile before ordering it
The reason a showroom still exists in a category that sells online is that three things do not survive a screen: the tone of a white, the depth of a texture, and how two materials look side by side. All three decide whether somebody still likes a floor a year later.
What is displayed here is drawn from the same catalog as this site, with no separate showroom range behind it, so a tile seen in person can be looked up afterward under the same name.
Trim and finishing pieces
Bullnose bases at 3x24, accent strips at 4x24 and 4x12, and the moldings that turn a tiled wall into a finished one are part of what this location is stocked for. They are also the part of an order people forget until the job is nearly done, which is the argument for choosing them while the field tile is still being chosen.
The trim range covers which profile answers which edge across the whole catalog.
Vanities and the rest of a bathroom
Vanities are part of the Fairfax range, which matters more than the size of the group suggests: a vanity is the one item in a bathroom somebody wants to open and close before buying it. Wall decos and ledger panel fill out the rest of the room.
The bathroom tile range is the catalog version of the same room.
