marble mosaic bathroom floors - hex, basketweave or rectangles

imlebby

13 years ago

Do you love or regret your marble mosaic floor in a bathroom? I am worried about staining but I LOVE the look.

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rmkitchen
13 years ago
We have mini marble hex (white with occasional black dots and a black border) and I LOVE it. It's in our main floor powder room, probably the bathroom which gets the most action: my 6.5 year-old uses it as his primary bathroom (he has his own upstairs but when we're on the main floor this is closer) and we change my younger son's diapers in there, which means I am in there A LOT. Our cats' kitty litter also used to be in there but I finally said "ENOUGH!" so that got moved to another space. And of course everyone who comes over uses that bathroom.

I've noticed no staining / etching on the floor (the tiles are polished). On the (honed) slab marble counter I have noticed some staining, and I was really good about sealing it! You know what was the culprit: that lime green Kan-doo (something-or-other) kids' soap. But the squirts of toothpaste and god knows what else haven't stained either the counter or the floor. J'adore this floor -- it was only about 250% over budget (ha ha) but I am seriously soooo glad we did it. Yum yum.
mtnrdredux_gw
13 years ago
You may want to look at home depot. I was really surprised that they had a nice b/w basket weave marble for what I thought was quite reasonable. I used it in a shower floor we were redoing for staging our house.
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