The showroom also features a big mural of about 3, 000 white ping-pong balls on a Venetian-tile entry wall.

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While Peter Wall, chairman of the governors at Tile Hill Wood School, said the consultation had been extensive.

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One of the first ways that was done was by getting local school children to make a very personal ceramic tile which they all cemented into a wall next to their playground.

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On the other side of the wall, there was the noise of furniture scraping across a tile floor.

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