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aloha2009

Pulling a Look All Together

13 years ago

We're in the process of remodeling our utility room. My DH is nearly done framing in a pantry, and a building materials closet.

I'm trying to stay a step ahead of the decisions. Once the wallboard goes in, down will go the tile that I haven't quite decided on.

We knew we wanted a tile 12" x 24" so that helped a lot! Right in the front of the store (great price to boot) was a nice charcoal tile but we thought it may be a tad dark. We continued to look and found the same "style" in a light whitish, too light. I really liked them both and the price couldn't be beat ($2/sq ft). Then I had the great idea of pairing the two together and making a "rug runner" down the utility room with intermixing the opposite color. Hit a home run!

We'll likely go with the charcoal as the accent color but may switch that out.

The problem is we LOVE the look of the floor but I'm concerned about if it will fit for the room. I've looked on Houzz for pics of the combinations and though nice something rubs me wrong and I can't put my finger on it.

We'll have 11' of white closets, 8' of white bins, white washer and dryer, white woodwork and two white entrance doors. Though I'm using black accents extensively in the rest of the house, it doesn't quite seem right in this instance unless I include black in other areas of the utililty room. That would be easy to accomplish except I want the utility room to have a clean, fresh feeling. I thought of painting the walls (the little bit that is left behing all the white) a pastel aqua.

When I see this combination on Houzz it just doesn't give me the fresh look I'm going after. I'll say it again though, we LOVE the combination of the tile. Due to other factors, this would be the only place in the house that this tile would look good, so it's not like I could use it elsewhere.

What would you do?

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