Tiles

This for me was going to be the hardest appointment, get it wrong and your house is...well, disappointing to say the least.

Least we had visited the showroom 3 times trying to decide what we wanted...the appointment didn't take long at all, our tile consultant gave us about 10 minutes to have a look at the tiles while she set up in readiness for us. We spent this time looking at accent tiles for the bathrooms and laundry.

I found the tiles for the laundry straight away - glass tiles in shades of brown. While we were searching with our adult daughter for tiles for her bathroom we came across the same accent tile that we had used 3yrs earlier on our current bathroom, so that was an easy pick for us. Kelly had alot more trouble picking out her tile, she is into purple and wanted something in that range.

We decided to wait until we had finalised the actual tiles for the bathrooms and get the consultant to help us.

As i posted earlier we chose Alexa Rosso 400mm x 400mm as our main tile through the house, this is a light brown tile with a fine white vein running through it, in the Entrance we turned the tiles to form a diamond pattern and added Alexa Grigio, this tile was also 400mm x 400mm but would be cut in half to form a border. This tile would also be used in the Laundry on the floor.

For the Ensuite, Bathroom and Toilet we picked Abitare Carrara a white marble looking tile with a very faint blue/grey vein running though it. This tile would also continue on into both showers forming the base and the walls, they would also continue on to become the splashbacks behind the vanities.

In our ensuite our accent tile would be the Oasis Border tile, this is a 100 x 300mm pale blue tile made up of 12 smaller rectangles with paler blue and darker blue vine silhouette on it, this is going to run across the splashback and continue on into the shower across both tiled walls, it should sit just under half way up the wall...i am now starting to worry about whether it will look okay or not, but have decided to check with the tiler when we get to that stage.

As for Kellys bathroom, she couldn't decided between two different colours in a pencil tile, a lavender one or a aubergine one, I asked her why not have both alternating them we also decided to go with two rows, offsetting the rows. She elected to put them across the top of the shower about head high and along the long side of the bath front.

Luckily we didnt need to pick tiles for the kitchen as we are getting a glass splashback as part of our promotion.

As we are putting a trough in the garage Tony just picked plain white tiles for there.