I personally wouldn't do it after having had several samples in my home, and trying to lay them to see how they would look. I know Bill says if YOU like them etc., etc., and that's true, but for ME, I decided against the 20x20. Look at Organic_Donna's 12x12s and see how great they look size wise. P.S. Mother's closet under the stairs has 20x20 tiles and they look really weird because hers is 3ft wide like you mentioned, and with the one whole and the other cut, I don't like the look...but it's a closet, so doesn't really matter too much. Good luck with whatever you do.

Laurie, I think that looks great! I can't wait to see the room as you progress. I love looking at the pictures of everyone's pretties. Oh I'm so happy that you enjoyed my pictures! I just googled "black toile bath" and "black toile bathroom" and then snooped the Images. So if you want to find any of that stuff that's how you can do it. Not sure about a shower curtain matching your wallpaper, but if you find a paper with matching fabric you can sew one. Another idea is to find the fabric you like, make a shower curtain from it, then use more of that fabric as wallpaper putting it up with wallpaper paste (but your walls won't be so scrubbable that way). Other options would be to shop for a different b&w shower cutrain. This one is a nice classic that will never go out of style -- White with Black Trim Or here is a Solid Black Curtain. Or, I really like this one. I have a weakness for pintuck satin. It's so classy. Black Pintuck Curtain. Here it is in a White Pintuck Curtain. I'd be very tempted to pick that one, but I'd put the bath together before I decided which.

A tile 3/8" 18" wide and 36" Long weighs about 20 pounds. Two people could stand shoulder to shoulder in that space. I would think two people would average out to about 350 pounds. What happens when you fill a glass of water and place it in the bathroom on the floor. Can you walk around the room without spilling any water? Water should be to the top. Can you dance around the room?

vinmarks No, in your case I was tempted to write that the VaH can make use of that size duct. I think VaH may be negligent if they don't point out that that duct size needs to be matched on the MUA side. As pointed out earlier, few in the kitchen hood sales chain want to raise the issue of make-up air and the horror it can be to retrofit into a renovation.* But lest others think that they need 12-inch duct for 1200 CFM with conventional blowers in lieu of using 10-inch for typical lengths, I wanted to point out that that would be only a modest improvement relative to getting the MUA in with low pressure loss. Pressure loss is counted from the cooktop to outside and then from outside to inside back to the cooktop. ------- *An example MERV7 high flow 4-inch deep pleated filter, 2 ft x 2 ft in area used to catch the big particles and bugs that the MUA air could pass into the house, used at 1200 CFM (300 ft/min) would have a pressure loss of 0.1 inches w.c. (See table from https://www.texairfilters.com/comparative-tests-on-pressure-drop-of-hvac-filters/ If one looks into VaH data, for example see below, 0.1 inches w.c. drops the flow rate of a dual blower (1200 CFM) hood to 1060 CFM. At 1060 CFM, the filter pressure loss is a bit less, so one really needs to plot filter loss vs flow rate against the fan curve implied by the data below to obtain the expected flow rates (excluding ducts, MUA register, and exhaust duct cap pressure losses which also need to be counted) . And for comparison, using an equation I found on the Internet at the HVAC engineering forum referencing the 2003 ASHRAE Handbook at Page 52.5 (confirmed in my copy) and adapting it with some trepidation to screening as was done at the forum, and assuming a screen of 70% openness across a 12-inch duct at 1200 CFM, the pressure loss is even higher than the pleated filter, reaching 0.7 inches, w.c. With a 15-inch screened duct, 0.1 inches w.c. at 1000 CFM could be achieved. The moral is, use a lot of screen area, or low loss filtering, or let the sparrows in.