Does anyone here have frosted glass tile in their shower? We are planning to do a whole wall in our master shower in glass subways (blue/green "water like" color), and I was planning to do frosted. I think it goes better with the rest of our selections such as textured porcelain and honed marble countertops (nothing is shiny). We are placing our order tomorrow and I am nervous all of a sudden, realizing that water doesn't roll off the frosted glass as easily as clear glass, and residue from soap, shampoo etc may stick more. Please help! Am I making a mistake? I really like the frosted look a lot more than clear.

That's all a matter of preference. Not seeing the tile, I generally prefer diagonal. For some reason I prefer not to have all the lines in the same direction, so having the tile at an angle to the wall and cabinets just looks better to me. But some people don't like that at all. There's some good discussion on this in Bathrooms if you want to do a search and read while waiting. No feelings about grout lines other than I know I can't keep them clean, so I would go small. Not sure if these are regular tiles or vinyl, but for regular tiles make sure you ask about lippage. That's when the tiles are not even heights, less/no lippage is better, but harder to do. I don't know all the technical stuff, but good info on Bathrooms about this too. Maybe just bringing it up will encourage them to be on their toes?

It happens all the time. A homeowner will choose a tile or type of flooring and the installer will install it without thinking. Tile and flooring is not something that you can just throw down and make it work and come out even especially on a remodel. Here's why.. You start out with all of the subfloor heights even. You decide to install 1/2" thick wood flooring in all of the rooms but the kitchen. When new the builder compensated for the extra height when they tiled the kitchen. Say for example 1/4" thick tile was used. The builder would add 1/4" thick plywood to raise the floor to where the tile would be even with the wood flooring.. Fast forward.. You come along and decide to redo the kitchen floor with 1/2" tile that calls for a 1/4" underlayment. You now have 3/4" total height to deal with. The old 1/4" tile is removed. Minus 1/4 from 3/4 you have 1/2 left. !/2" will be the difference in height between the old and new. So now you have three choices. Go back and find a tile or flooring type with a thickness that will come out even when fully installed. Rip out all of the old wood flooring throughout the house and start over. Add a transition piece and learn to live with it. Myself I would have did a lot of measuring and after if you wanted to go with the tile you choose. Then I would have added something like a Shur-Trim transition piece under the tile and onto the wood flooring.

Thank you all for the comments. Sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been a bit out of touch. I did end up going with the larger tiles and it turned out great. Thanks for your concerns regarding the color, but my wife and I had previously looked at different colors and decided we did still prefer the gray to anything else we looked at. She was very surprised and loves it. Thanks again!