Joanie - Thank you for your opinion and your nice comment. I appreciate it! The woodwork in the home definitely comes into play. Cran - Thank you so much Cran. I have thought about adding blue tile... like a border or something. But I am also completely open to ripping out the hood tile. Linley posted some photos below that have a lot of texture. Is that what you are thinking too? As for your tile... take it from me... post a few photos here and let the guru's help you! They are wonderful! Sweeby - It looks like all arrows are pointing to more Spanish tiles (with or without some crackle tiles) Hey... I guess it confirms that I was on the right track in the beginning.... LOL Love the pictures! Dutchy - Wow...now that is a great mix of elements there. I visited the link and they said that the tiles were original to the house and that they salvaged them from around the windows. Nice! More were custom added from Mission Tile West. Igloochic - Hey now! That is a major switch! I can't believe any picture of mine is being used as an inspiration photo! Thanks for your dissenting opinion, but it sounds like you would vote for the hood tiles to stay, so... looks like sticking with Spanish is your vote too! :) Linley - Thanks for the pictures and the built in links! The antiquity Mission tiles are gorgeous! It is a very interesting way of adding color, especially combined with such an amazing texture. Remodelfla - Oh boy... have I ever checked them out! We even took a road trip to San Diego to see them in person. They are beautiful! We might have to go back there soon. I didn't use them initially due to a hood issue... it was due to the fact that we needed 4" tiles and their tiles were 4 1/4". Since we wanted to use the same tiles for the backsplash... I kind of stopped there. Sorry for the delay in responding. I was out of town this weekend. Thanks again for the ideas, links, and leads. We are hoping to go to a few more tile shops this week. In the meanwhile we are continuing on with our final inspection process. Thank you all!

One is ceramic tile and one is porcelain tile. Also, they are different lengths and will appear quite different once installed. http://products.daltile.com/documents/salessheets/Emblem_SS.pdf http://products.daltile.com/documents/salessheets/DAL_SaddleBrook_SS_1707.pdf

Fsal, when you posted this last pic of your awesome tile I told myself I wasn't going to harp on this again, but yesterday I finally gave in and used soft scrub with bleach in my stupid (honed) marble shower. Even that isn't enough to get the grout back to a semblance of its original (light) color. would kill to turn back the clock and get dark grout. No traffic bathroom floor area Post scrubbing shower floor same grout: Just gross and disheartening. The higher areas on the wall aren't bad but anything below waist high gets pink too: eye level:Post scrub knee high

IMO it depends on your style and colors you use. I would not do cream floors since i like cool colors in my home and to be honest I also would not do tile floor all over . I would actually do LVP before tile for a whole house at least your knees and back would thank you.