BUILDING, DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT
Nashville muralist Nathan Brown painted the exterior of Red Rock Tileworks, the birthplace of Haustile.
A
s they analyzed the tile industry, Kristin Ortiz and Lindsay Sheets noticed that there wasn’t a ton of creativity.
“We would love to do a floor tile and really push the narrative on what people are putting in their floors,” Ortiz said. “We’ve all kind of lived by this concept of the floor being an afterthought while the furniture or wall color are important. But we thought, ‘Why not base your design on what the floor looks like’ and really shift that conversation?’” That led Ortiz and Sheets to create their own company,
paving the way for the birth of Haustile. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, Ortiz and Sheets use high-quality American-made porcelain tile to transform design-forward motifs into conversation pieces. Ortiz said she and Sheets, creative design professionals with 30 years of combined tile experience, met six years ago and immediately hit it off. They often discussed starting a business together, but neither had the capital or bandwidth to do so with their jobs and lives in separate parts of the country. But after years of discussion, the stars aligned for the partnership to come together. NASHVILLEINTERIORS.COM | 79