Hey breezy! You and me both! LOL I had a different rainhead when we remodeled Mbath at previous house. It was also large and I loved it! Though when I washed my hair, I sometimes used DH's. ( I have very thick hair) We are probably still a month away of being in. The latests setback was the stair color. I told the GC I wanted kind of pecan colored to match my floor. Some how I ended up with BURGANDY! So, they were stripped and sanded and now 2 1/2 weeks later since starting the staining, they are the correct color. Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out! Good luck on your faucet choices! Bridge

This is a longish post about Matching, so feel free to skip it. For a male I score very high on those discernment tests where you have to put the swatches in order. I don't know if it's because I can pick them up relatively easily, but subtle mismatches don't bother me all that much. I am doing a series of rooms that are completely monochromatic except for the floors, which are wood and the ceilings which are white. This is to create "background" because there will be a lot of stuff on the walls and books, but even the drapes and bedding match the walls. (And they are honest to god drapes, too). Anyway, the bathroom is the same. Kohler Ice Grey fixtures, Kohler Ice Grey tile of two different dimensions, with a darker grey floor and a white ceiling. This room will get wallpaper. But here are the things that "match" Kohler cast iron bathtub Kohler vitreous china toilet, with plastic seat Konler cast iron undermount sink Daltile Semi-gloss 4x4 tile in Kohler Ice Grey Daltile Modern Dimensions 2x4 tile in Kohler Ice Grey Corian Pearl Gray solid surface vanity top, shelves, custom inset toilet paper holder, custom wastebasket. (This technically is not a "match" but it is very close. Robert Allen Ultima fabric for shower curtain Here is the thing about things that match, is that sometimes they don't match, and sometimes they do. The Kohler Tub and sink are black cast iron underneath. The clay body of the Daltile Semi Gloss and the toilet are white underneath, the clay body of the Daltile Modern Dimensions is brown underneath, and the acrylic toilet seat and the Corian are a solid color all the way through. The tub and tile seem to match on the surface but it looks darker in place compared to the semigloss tile. But in some lighting it looks lighter because the surface of the tub is more reflective than the tile. The tub and the toilet and the toilet seat seem to match on the surface but sometimes they don't exactly because they are different materials. The two Daltile lines of tile do not match exactly because one is brown underneath and one is white underneath. The Corian is not a "match" it is a nice blend, but the recessed toilet paper holder and the shelves appear to match the tile completely. But the sink looks definitely darker directly against the Corian, even though the sink seems to match the tile. The fabric matches the tile when it is held up vertically but not laid on it horizontally. The fabric matches the grey color in the wallpaper, but when you look at them together from a distance it matches the ground of the wallpaper which is more of a champagne color with a little brown in it. So you can drive yourself crazy if you want it all to match all the time. I think it is Mariette Himes Gomez who has actually worked out how to use up to four or five different shades of white on the four walls and ceiling of a white room to make all the walls "match" and present a flat white room instead of one that is slightly different on each surface. I also remember my mother buying suit separates and the sales person saying that they were having trouble because some of the skirts and pants were not great matches with the jackets and they picked out something that looked like a great match in the store and when she took it to her tailor and saw it in the natural light, they had matched a black jacket to a dark blue skirt. (But it looked better than some of the two blues together in the store lighting). I guess it's what people are sensitive to. I had a friend who was upset because of tile and tub not "matching" but the obvious (to me) seams in the drywall and the uneven eggshell paint application was something she didn't notice at all. I also worked with a client who was sensitive to things like that but never noticed that one of the windows in her new build was 4-6 inches off, and then in the next house I did she never noticed that every single window in her house was 8 over 8 except one was 6 over 6. Even though the odd one was not far from two of the correct windows.

I've never seen crema marfil fade, no matter HOW old it is. As for composite, there are no cons that I can think of, and as for pros, it's not nearly as brittle as natural stone. Beyond that, though, it's pretty much a matter of aesthetics. Re the emperador dark, this should help you envision it:

I tend to think the whole white fixture thing is kind of a fallacy. Pure white becomes something that is a "blank" that "goes with everything", when really the only thing that "matches" white is white. It's similar to the "neutrals go with everything" fallacy that leads to someone painting a bathroom with beige tile lime green, because beige is a neutral and goes with everything. I feel like it is something that our eyes have been trained to see, much like we will wear jeans with any color because jeans go with everything. But we would never wear pale blue or indigo blue wool trousers with some of the things we would wear denim in that exact shade with. It's the toilet, tub and the tile and the countertop that will dictate your choices, not just the fixtures. Unless you also pick white based tile with those white fixtures you technically are going to be limited to what goes with it. I've seen many a color scheme that would look better with something other than a pure white toilet plunked in the middle of it.