I like this tile design in the shower and was thinking I can do the ming brick pattern tile on the bottom with white subway on top and some ming pencil border up top. Any thoughts on how this would look? Another idea is to do all white subway with a thick ming tile border. I don't want to use ming marble tile on the floors. I would like to use some sort of porcelain tile for ease of cleaning and also since it is more budget friendly. Any suggestions other than the wood porcelain tile?

tking, hope it's not too late but I have a picture I can post for you now. I'm very happy with the way the two tiles work together. We ended up using platinum grout on the ming hex floor tiles and white on the white subway tiles. The room is very bright from a horizontal window above the shower/tub area. The brightness of the white subway tiles is very pleasing to me. There is a large tree outside the window. The green of the floor tiles ties nicely with the green from the tree. Then everything else is white. Interestingly, in photos the floor looks darker than it does in person. Here is a link that might be useful: Ming green hex and white subway

Hey there. The Biltmore from the Tile Shop is similar to my backsplash but the coloration was definitely stronger, more green than my ming green marble. In person, the ming green doesn't read as green, more grey, cream, even some blue, but also touches of green. But you don't look at it at first and think "that is a green backsplash", whereas the Biltmore to me was instantly a green. Same goes for the Ann Sacks - it is much darker in tone and more definitely green. My backsplash tile is also known as Jade - search for that and you'll find something closer to the color and tone I have. Mine was a closeout on ebay that was fantastically priced but has long since been sold out - great for me, but stinky for anyone else. I paid about $200 total for my backsplash including shipping :) Here is a link showing a jade mosaic tile (hope this works). http://www.mosaicoitaliano.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=40 Anita

I think the pencil liner could be just the thing to cover your gap and allow you to do something else later if you choose to. Just a little piece of trim, and you can buy a few a see how that looks to you. I just had my outlets moved up to avoid a listello, and while I am glad I didn't cut the lines of the listello having the outlets a little lower was nicer for access and fewer cords draping around (on the coffee pot and grinder, which stay plugged in for the most part). There may be a limit to how far they can be dropped due to framing issues, but it may not be a big issue to lower them if you choose to do that. I love how Rhome picked out that issue with tiling that wall: Snuggling the outlets into the tile will solve a big part of the visual issues any tile on that wall that is lower than the outlet will have.. Your sunflower tile is amazing, and has some interesting properties to my eye: I think the tiny tiles mosaic looks great with it when the triangle is up on the sunflower, and I don't like the mix of the two mosaics with the triangles to the side/square tile on top. I just keep looking at it because it is sort of fascinating to me. I think it is unlikely that you will tire of the Ming green hint of color, but if you have any question about that I would stick with the Thassos/whiter marble. I am guessing that the bit of color softens the look in your kitchen and is so perfect with the color of your walls right now that people find the combo very soothing. But I do think you would be happy with either. And it may be that the orientation of the sample has influenced which "color" people like. Just my two cents. I think you will love either for a long time. And nothing will happen with your drywall in the short term, so if you need some time to live with it just on the stove wall I would take that time and not fret.