I appreciate your reply. Thank you for confirming the branding issue. So is there anyway for a consumer to independently verify that it is in fact the same tile? How can I go about confirming what was delivered to me is actually what I picked out in the showroom? Who would I call? (besides the showroom designer who is repeating what his supplier is telling him). I realize there is "lot to lot" color variations in all porcelain tile. The tile display boards in the showrooms can be old, so that new lots of porcelain tile don't compare to the sample on the board. This means I literally have no frame of reference for comparison. Tile looks different from what I chose, but maybe it is within acceptable limits of variation?? Impossible for me to know. It would have been much easier for me to accept the variation in appearance, if the showroom had just gotten the tile that I picked out and have seen carried in all the tile shops I've visited, instead of from an apparently little known company that has no online website or showroom displays. Why switch and create this confusion in the first place? Thank goodness the other bathroom tile was delivered and matched exactly what I had chosen from the showroom! No second guessing involved. Final question: Are your two different distributors located in two different countries as well? As I stated previously, I picked out tile clearly labeled "made in Italy." The boxes I received were stamped "made in Turkey." Is this your experience as well with branding/quality control? Different factories, in different countries, different brand names, different distributors, but you can confirm it is the same quality and the same tile to your specifications? As I said, I ultimately accepted the tile and it is installed. It fits with my color palette, but I would still like to avoid this type of confusion in future projects. Anyone else have a surprise on delivery such as this?? If so, how did you handle it with your contractor and verify it was the tile your picked out?

daisychain when I'm in a thread, at the top above the title in the OP it says GardenWeb Topics / Home Decorating Conversations. When I'm on the main page of the forum is where it says Home Decorating & Design Conversations. Olychick it's not the word Discussions that I'm questioning but Design - that's what I think was added. It makes the Discussion and the Conversation sides both have the possibility of being nicknamed DD which is what the regulars on Houzz call their Design Dilemma board. As I said, maybe I'm just pushing a conspiracy theory here and it's all about nothing. When I start talking to you about visits from extraterrestrials, call the men in little white coats, please. roarah - then I'm not nuts!

Hey Dolly, I'm still here but thanks for noticing. I don't think anyone has ever noticed when I've been gone for awhile, so you made my day! I posted on the purse thread yesterday. I've been on a family vacation for about 2 weeks, but back to the stark reality of a northern Wisconsin winter, ugh.

I just saw the photo of your dear black kitty. Your sweetie reminds me of our sweetie. Maybe they will meet up over the rainbow bridge. We didn't know how old he was when we got him as a rescue. We had him nine blessed years. rip. He never met a stranger, would become bff with any person who came through our door and would supervise any workman in the house. 22lbs of marvelous. Again, I'm so sorry for your loss.