You're welcome! We ended up using "Sherwin Williams "Window Pane," which is a bit green. I painted 1/2 of a poster board with "Window Pane" and the other half with Sherwin Williams "Topsail," which is more blue. I moved the poster board to different locations at different times of the day to helpdecide what color to use. I loved them both!

Becky A It's lovely!! Enjoy!

I agree, Becky A, your bathroom came out very nice! I like the color selection (as you will soon see when I post mine) and the way that your tiler did the shower. The partial tile at the top, below the bullnose, looks very planned and more like an accent there at the top than an accident of spacing. I almost went with a gray stone counter top myself, and seeing yours makes me a bit sad that I switched. Overall, your bathroom looks both practical and elegant - a hard balance to achieve!

Have you seen Daltile Attache calacatta porcelain, or was that discontinued

Newfie, according to Daltile's sales data sheet, the 10x14 and 12x24 glossy tiles are for walls only. If you were planning on doing your both your bathroom floor and the shower walls in the Florentine tile you would have to use matte on the floor. The matte tile and the glossy tiles do not match as far as the whiteness of the tiles go. My daughter chose use the matte because she was doing the floor and tub walls and didn't want the mismatch of the whites. If you want to use the glossy on the wall you would need to find a suitable coordinating floor tile.

Also if it matters to you the glossy ceramic tiles are made in China while the matte porcelain tiles are made in the USA.

Data sheet for Daltile Florentine

Additional infoFlorentine tile

Blondelle, I notice on the Duomo page that the 12 x 24 size that they have 10 "faces" versus only 5 for the other sizes. I am going to assume that "faces" means variations in the pattern of veining. That is a great number of variations and will help it look less manufactured, and more like it could be real marble with infinite variety. I find this important to me, as my eye just automatically looks for matches in tiles when I am in a room. This pattern-recognition thing I have is very irritating, and I don't know how many others suffer through it. This issue is more important with a tile like this Duomo, which is approximating Calacata marble, with its strong veining. Those patterns can jump right out at you. This looks like a very nice tile.

Newfie, there are several pictures of my daughter's bathroom posted near the top of this thread. The matte surface is perfectly smooth. No bumps or texture at all. My daughter liked the tile because the veining was not super busy like some of the others she looked at. The tile has at least 6 different patterns and if you turn them upside down then you have at least 12 patterns. My daughter's tiler laid the tile out before putting them on the walls so that he could get the patterns to flow from one tile to the next rather than have it look choppy.

Here is picture that I have on hand of a close up of the tiles (the close is not accurate in this pic)

Here is one more picture I have of the floor tile

Look for my post above in this thread to see more pictures.

Another poster this past week asked about this same tile and she too noted that there is a difference in color between the glossy and matte versions. I would not install the glossy tiles on the floor, no matter what your builder says. Daltile says they are for walls only.

Newfie, are you saying that a picture of my daughters bathroom is on the Veo Design Studio. Interesting if it is because they had nothing to do with her bathroom. Never heard of them. Hope they're not passing it off as their work.

There definitely is a slight difference in color between the matte finish and the glossy finish tiles. We used the matte finish tiles on the floor and the glossy ones in the shower. Turned out great.

Yes please Sushraya! I'm struggling also. yesterday a designer suggested i use one of these as a floor with the polished Daltile Cararra. The back board is wall tile but comes in floor tile and the colors would be pretty much the same with the exception of the bottom two which are decorative tiles. I tend to like the more pricey one on the bottom left.

Newfle St.Johns it's Daltile Kimona Silk Morning Dove unpolished. You were close. I totally love it and that is going to be my floor tile with the Daltile Florentine Carrara in the shower and back wall. It looks like linen to me but the Daltile says it was inspired by woven silk fabric. My laptop shows it grey online but it's a mix and comes out as a greige in my bathroom. It is very classy looking. I may even consider doing my 2nd bathroom in the same tile but another color.

I looked the the Emser Realm Domain and it's very pretty but it is another marble and i was told never to mix the two. I had considered the Emser cosmopolitan earth but was talked out of it because it was so dark.

Take a look at the Kimona Silk and see it in person you might really like it.

I took another look at the Emser Realm Domain and it is beautiful. It is a Ceramic but the specs show it is good for both floor and wall. The finish is glazed with a matte / satin finish. Are you considering this just for the floors or both floors and shower? it is really pretty.

For those who have used Daltile Florentine Carrera, how prominent are the tan veins in yours? When we picked this tile out there was only the slightest hint of tan, but tonight we saw the tile that will actually be installed and there is a much more prominent tan.

How beautiful! You must have the matte for we picked up our

Daltile Florentine Carrera polished tonight and although I have only seen a few of the tiles the tan is very slight. Our demolition starts tomorrow.

My DD has that tile in her bathroom. There are pictures posted above in this thread. It hard to see in the previous pictures I posted but there is tan in some of the tiles but not all of them. She did have more without the tan than with. As you look at the individual tile it might look like it's very prominent but I think once they are all put up you will see that it is actually subtle. Here is closeup of one of her tiles. I actually like the tan in the tiles. (note: there are some shadows in the upper part of the pic, not discoloration on the tile

Maybe the box you opened just happens to randomly have more of the tiles with tan than without. I bet if you open more boxes you will find some boxes with few or none of those tan tiles.

Hope the tile works out for you.

Following this thread.

Here are some pictures now that it has been installed.

Newfie St. John’s, the accent tile my daughter used is Florida Tile Piatra Bliss. The color is called Iceland. There is not any blue or green in it. It does come in other color combinations as well as in linear strips instead of the small squares.

Florida Tile http://www.floridatile.com/products/bliss

Jonothan King, your bathroom looks fabulous! Love the way the veins flow from one tile to the next instead of having them just go any which way. Kudos to the installer.

Be sure to post more pics when your bathroom is completely finished

I will post pictures once it is finished! We should be getting lighting installed this week but not sure when the shower will be going in.

Newfie - We used gloss for the shower walls and matte for everything else.

What size tiles are on your floor?

Jonathan, what color countertop did you go with? I saw you had gray cabinets and I have a very similar look going in my bath, but I have a dessert silver silestone and I’m afraid they will look off since they are a light gray.

is Florentine Carrara FL06 tile suggestable to use as a floor tile in kitchen, family room and foyer?

Has anyone tried this tile on a bathroom counter yet? It appears there are trim pieces available. Would you think the gloss finish better than matte on a counter?

I have this on my floor and in my shower. I wouldn’t use it on a countertop. I found a quartz called calacatta oro #7017 by atlas that looks great with the Florentine tiles.

Jonathan King, thanks so much for posting pics of your finished shower. So helpful to us, as we plan to use the same Florentine for shower walls with a gray 2x2 mosaic floor (Shades by Crossville in Mist.). Question: what size are your shower tiles? We are trying to decide between 12x24 and 10x14. Would love to hear pros/cons for each size from you or anyone else. Thanks!

Can anyone tell me which color of grout they used with the matte and/or the polished? The matte seems to have a gray undertone more than the polished. We need to use Custom brand grout but would love to hear anyone’s opinions!

The designer at Daltile suggested Ash grout, that’s what we are going with.

Silverado grout. This is matte

Beautiful! What paint color did you use?

This is actually just the builder paint. SW chillax

Our master bathroom and closet are in mid-reno. We placed 24x24 matte Daltile Florentine on the main bathroom floor with Mapei Flexcolor CQ grout in Warm Gray. We love the look. We’ll be setting 5-1/2” tile baseboards in the same pattern. The shower walls will be Florentine 10x14 tiles. The tiles are shiny in the photo because we had just washed the tiles after grouting.

I hope some of you are still following this thred, because i have a question about the edges of your tile. Particularily with the polished tile, the edges were bit up, pitted and chipped. We were told that this is just how the manufacturer makes the tile, so I am wondering if this is something that you all have found?

Corinne, I think our contractor would have mentioned something like that and he did not. I'm not sure if pitted edges would be visible now that the shower is finished, but I won't be able to look until May when we return to live in that condo for the summer.