Tile installers/experts, lend me your thoughts?
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Please lend me your eye for colour so I can finalize kitchen
Comments (28)I do like your fixture selections too. If that is the bronze you were looking at, it is not as dark as what I was picturing. My island fixture was called bronze but looking at it, you would think it was black. If you look close enough you can find a few golden highlights. Yours has some of the warmth I was looking to wood to pick up without being harsh. There is still a softness that ties in with your silver and blue-grey. It will also tie in with your floors and island. It also looks like it would be great with that mosaic tile. I do think you can mix your metals if you pay careful attention the lines and style. I have stainless appliances, pewter hardware on my white cabinets and black on my cherry island. Since your island will be a very different finish, you can use a different pull on those cabinets and bring in a finish similar to your lighting. Look at pewter for your white cabinet pulls, or especially if you want them all to be the same. Pewter finishes and the things done with them tend to look older and softer while your nickel can go more modern and slick. With your color palette and seeing those fixtures, I think I'd like the older, slightly more rustic feel of the pewter. The kind of comfortable you get with a favorite pair of jeans. Know what I mean? I see what you were thinking with the tile, but it just doesn't work for me. I tend to like glossy finishes and white or lighter colors for a splash. I want them to reflect light rather than suck it up and let it die under my upper cabinets. I have seen a few dark splashes I like, but they tend to be rich color, the same as the counters and/or pretty contemporary from what I can remember. If you look at a white or light color ceramic or glass, you could use a liner in the other colors you are using or even a metallic liner so you have a bit of color and detail without doing a lot. That's similar to what I did. As for that pony wall, make it the height you want it or need it to be for function and visual balance in the room. Don't worry too much about the tile size. The tile setter can figure out how to fade a cut tile into the top or bottom row and give it all a finished look....See MoreTile install experts - which Mapei grout?
Comments (5)No John , but it doesn't come with the waiting -- an important part -- period before washing it ,like the Laticrete Spectra Lock Pro . For me , I've always give a cleaning final wash the next day , on any epoxy project . Safer this way than sorry + it is easy to do corrections if needed ....See MoreTile experts - I need your waterproofing advice!
Comments (17)A properly designed curbless shower DOES contain the water! The important part is "properly designed". The best waterproofing that exists can be all for nothing if the shower underneath it is improperly built. That goes for curbed or curbless. Be sure the pre-slope is correct, and correct for the materials chosen. Be sure the interface with the drain is correct, and no weep holes are blocked. Be sure the curb is built correctly, and detailed correctly. The details Behind the waterproofing are just as important as the waterproofing. And the framing behind those details is included in those things that not enough people pay attention to, until it is too late, and they have a wavy tile installation because the walls were framed poorly. You won't be using any contrasting grout with wavy walls!...See MorePlease give me your thoughts on this bathroom tile
Comments (16)I'd do white. You've got so much pattern with four tile shapes that I'd want to let the rest of the elements be very quiet. I agree. Though it's all white, you have a lot going on here. "Quiet" is the right word for the rest: White grout (with some of that stuff that makes it easier to clean) and simple faucets in simple chrome. For some color, I'd go with a soft, calm blue for towels and mats....See MoreMittens Cat
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