How fabulous! I haven't built my front bathroom yet, so the world remains my oyster. I really love the metal looks, particularly the brushed nickle looking one, and the darker metal, shoji-type one. Gorgeous! I want to know, too. Christine

A local tileshop in Pittsburgh has a basketweave where the white pieces are slightly curved. On the sample board I didn't care for it as much as pictures of straight ones, and she quoted $12/sq.ft. That doesn't mean it's different that the one you have in NJ, the saleslady was completely unhelpful. Do either of you have any pictures of the basketweave from Standard Tile? On another note, a local tile shop says Walker Zenger sells a white and black basketweave, and quoted me $8.70/sq.ft. It wasn't in the brochure and his sample board was loaned out, so I can't say what it looks like.

Posted by palimpsest: "But since a standard finished drywall wall is 4-1/2 plus tile making five and the above wall is Four and the other is four and a quarter... I am saving an inch not wasting one." I know I am kinda dumb when it comes to math. So I am having trouble adding that up. But it looks like you are actually wasting 2" of valuable bathroom space for the sake of having an impressive and daunting tile arrangement. (well, more like 4ý, because if you used one wall instead of two, not to mention the fact of framing and drywalling two separate walls all for the sake of uncut tiles. sheesh!) Are those the kind of tiles you can get at Home Depot? This post was edited by Lilylore on Thu, Dec 25, 14 at 10:26

Whoo-hoo! Fun expedition. Field tile (glass, ceramic, or their glazed brick is all $7 per square foot. Decorative tiles were I thin $7 per tile (!!!), although the little 2x2 decos my daughter coveted were $2 each. Of course, the downside of the excellent pricing was the challenge in finding enough matching or coordinating tile to do the job. We found 2 boxes (20 square feet) of the Wave tile in slate, which was a bit darker than what my friend wanted. And a bit less than the 30 square feet she needed, but she could supplement with full-priced tile or use two colors. We also found a box of red, dark blue (almost black), royal blue, cobalt, turquoise, periwinkle, and two other grays. Not more than a box of each, though. My friend was still deciding when we had to leave to get my daughter to a playdate. They had bins of random glass tiles that they were selling to use for mosaics that they were selling by the box. My daughter begged, so I let her get a box ($10). I told her we could find a table at Goodwill and mosaic the top. I have NO experience tiling, so that should be interesting. The above pic is of some seriously large, seriously detailed, tile, of which there were many. Probably 40 square feet or more.