Does this work or did we make a mistake?
Thought this floor would work with the surrounding tile but had our doubts. Decided to just go for it and now we think we made a big mistake... What do you think?
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palimpsest
27 days ago
Molly D.
27 days agoRelated Discussions
Well, we all make mistakes!
Comments (10)We got 3 1/2 inches on the 30th, then 1 1/2, an inch, and inch, 1/4 inch, 3/4 inch, followed by 2 days of intermittent sprinkles. The soil never really got the chance to dry out. And my not adding anything like perlite to help the drainage really doomed the poor thing. I'm in Cape Coral - across the river from Fort Myers. Local code won't let me built a rain shelter. Heck, we couldn't even put in posts to hang orchids on. (And I have one of those neighbors who would report me!) All of these things can become missiles in a hurricane - never mind that I would secure or take them down when I knew a storm was coming! We have a pretty big overhang that I thought would protect the plants. But I didn't notice that an L-shaped area threw the water on the end of the bench. The plants in a gritty mix did fine as did those with at least 50% perlite....See MoreDon't make the same mistake(s) I did thread.
Comments (88)Great thread. I've made many mistakes over the years. When I needed drapes for 5 very tall and wide windows, I thought I would save money by making them myself. I ended up buying 30+ yards of a synthetic moire on sale at a chain fabric store, along with drapery lining, and after making up one panel, found that even with lining, the light coming through the fabric made the color brighter and kind of gaudy. The bolt is still in an upstairs closet, and I found 96" crushed voile panels online that I like very much for about $20 each. Lesson: keep it simple. A couple of years ago, I hired a local designer mainly to help me choose paint colors and advise on accessories/tweaking. In the master bedroom, I had some custom green silk drapes that I never liked that much, and she talked me into spending the money to have them interlined and a printed fabric border added, along with custom shams with the same fabric. I had already spent $2000 on the drapes, and now I spent another $1000, and I still didn't like them. I took them down, and they and the matching euro shams are in the closet in the guest room. I put up natural linen-look semi sheers from target, and I like them better. Lesson: keep it simple, and don't throw good money after bad. We weren't using our formal dining room much, and the same designer suggested moving the dining furniture into one end of our large living room, and making the old dining room into a den and the old den into a home office, which was really needed. Since I wanted to replace the old LR sofa anyway, I moved the den furniture into the living room and had a custom ($$$)sofa made for the new den. It was not a huge space, and we tried to keep the sofa scaled down. When it arrived, the fabric was gorgeous, the style just what I wanted, but the seat depth was so shallow that it was not very comfortable. I had also slipcovered the old den chairs to go with the new sofa ($$). I ended up moving the new sofa to the living room, where it was more appropriate for perching ladies than lounging TV viewers, and now none of the colors I had chosen (with help paid for by the hour) for the LR and new den would work. Plus, the newly slipcovered den chairs (on swivel rocker bases, I love them) don't work that well with the old sofa color. Fortunately, I hadn't painted yet. Lessons: Don't buy furniture without sitting on it. Choose paint colors after you are certain of your fabrics. Don't let your designer talk you into stuff you don't really need. Keep your major pieces fairly neutral. The worst was the master bath update. I had chosen tile for the walls and floor, and the tile vendor gave me a couple of names for the installation. The guy with the higher quote was very highly recommended but I went with the other guy because he said he could also do some other work I needed done. Even though I had a gut feeling I was making a mistake. He did a horrible job on the tile, broke my toilet, and disappeared. I had to buy more wall tile and pay another contractor to replace it, and I'm still stuck with a bad job on the floor. Between the cost of doing the job, redoing the job, and buying a new toilet, I could have had the better contractor do the job, and replaced the vanity and sink as well, and upgraded to a better tile. Lessons: A jack of all trades might be a master of none. Go with your gut. Ask contractors for their license numbers and CHECK IT online with your state to see if it's in effect. I've made more, but these are the recent highlights, LOL. I feel better having confessed them here....See MoreChose Azul Platino granite... did I make a mistake?
Comments (13)I was on a searxh fpr a grey granite, too. Took Dh with me 2 different days. (Have white cabinets, but I didn't want a dark counter top. Have that now and can't stand it- too often I'll find places missed during clean-up that I couldn't see). He was SO much help- he picked out Blue Bahia. Yep, most expensive granite they had. Plus I didn't want blue. And we have a long countertop (133") without anywhere to put a seam that would look right. I finally went with my sweet wonderful DIL- we found granite heaven! OMG, they had some beautiful stuff (stuff I was afraid to even ask what level) Some turquiose slabs with true gold veins, another one called Blue Sky (I was almost willing to go blue for that one- truly the color look of the sky with puffy clouds). Found 5 we liked, took back DH & DS, showed them ONLY those. We ended up with Parisdiso Bash. It was meant to be. It's even long enough to not need a seam on my long counter. Keep searching for what you LOVE. When you see it, you'll know it. Angels will sing, you'll be doing the happy dance and you won't feel the least bit worried about your choice....See MoreDid I make 2 major mistakes in planting my grass seed? Help please.
Comments (9)Where do you live? France is a big place. And does it snow in your area? Here is some general info on lawns. Ignore your neighbor. He's trying to intimidate you and set you up to fail. Plant new seed only in the fall. Start in the early fall. That might be August or it might be September depending on where you live. You seem to have done it pretty well - perhaps by accident. Not rototilling was excellent. Rototilling is a big mistake that a lot of new gardeners make. See if you can rent a roller. You only need it once the first time you seed a big yard. After that, for annual overseeding, you can simply walk on the new seed to press it down onto the soil. Water new very lightly 3x per day, every day, until you get 80% germination. For the shade grass you planted that would be 3 weeks. If you have shade type grass, I'm assuming it's a fescue. Fescue should be mulch mowed at the mower's highest setting most of the time. If it gets hot in the summer, then mow every other week. The idea is to develop deeper roots to get water from deeper places in the soil. Fertilize for the first time on Fête du huitième mai or Jour de la Victoire 45 (same date different name). Fertilize again on Assomption and for the last time on or about Jour d'armistice. With the new lawn skip Jour d'armistice for this year. National holidays are easier to remember than specific dates. If you want to use organic fertilizer, you can do that any time including now. The application rate for organics is almost always 7 kg per 100 square meters. I like to use alfalfa pellets (lapin chow) as a fertilizer. Get them from a local feed store in 20-kilo bags. They really work. Watering: Deep and infrequent is the mantra for watering. This is for all turf grass all over the place. Deep means 3 cm all at one time. Put some cat food or tuna cans around the yard, and time how long it takes your sprinkler(s) to fill all the cans. Memorize that time. That will be the time you water from now on. My hose, sprinkler and water pressure takes 8 full hours to fill the cans. Your time will likely be less. I like gentle watering. As for watering frequency, that depends on the daytime air temperature. With temps from 33-38 deep water once per week. With temps from 25-32 deep water once every 2 weeks. With temps from 21-24 deep water once every 3 weeks. With temps below 21, deep water once a month. Note that you have to keep up with quickly changing temps in the spring and fall. In the USA this deep and infrequent schedule works in Phoenix and in Vermont (for Oz think Hobart to Darwin including Alice Springs), so it should work for you. The reason for deep and infrequent is to grow deeper, more drought resistant roots and to allow the soil to dry completely at the surface for several days before watering again. If it rains, reset your calendar to account for the rainfall. These are in reverse order of importance. Watering is key to getting a good lawn with the fewest problems. Weeds: Spot spray a liquid herbicide in mid April and again in mid September....See Morenickel_kg
27 days ago
cpartist
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Silver Fox 88
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Little Bird
27 days agostiley
27 days agoI agree that it can work. What vanity are you planning to use? It looks like your wall tile has some brown/tan veining that ties in with the brown of the floor. I think earthy colors for the vanity would look pretty along with unlacquered brass hardware as suggested above.
WestCoast Hopeful
27 days ago
Alicia
27 days ago
lynartist
26 days agoYou just haven’t taken the look far enough! Add a glamorous border! Black and gold vanity! Make that insert look intentional; like a beautiful rug!
lynartist
26 days agoIf the glam trim is too much for your taste you can do a plainer marble. This has some of the gray but also a bit of gold veining to tie the elements together. I feel black is the great equalizer and your gray marble is the predominant element here! Do go with the gold fixtures though! The trim separates the two tiles just enough visually creating a rug effect.
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niccidhg
26 days ago( Hi, Lyn 🙋🏻♀️. Happy New Year ! ) —- Aron, along with gold/ brass fixtures, I think it could also work very nicely with the use of natural wood cabinetry.
lynartist
26 days ago
PROKristina Lawrence Interior Design
26 days agoHello!
I like it! Unless your photo is skewing the grey-ness, I think it will work really well. You've had lots of comments above about adding brass fixtures which would be really great in here. And please be cautious that not all brass is the same. Go for a finish if possible (because already have your rough plumbing which will limit your choices, of course) that is a nice SOFT brassy color. You're trying to match the mosaic colors as much as you can here. I would suggest not adding an additional border around the mosaic. What you have going on already is plenty since it's not a large space. Use the same brassy color on the cabinet hardware. I love slightly darker stained walnut cabinet (a color that knocks down the yellow in the walnut) with grey tile and brass. Avoid any wood that has yellow or gold or any red in it. If you opt for a painted cabinet, maybe consider a dark warm grey. If possible, keep the vanity raised up on legs or floating since you don't want to chop off the mosaic by sitting a vanity right on top of it. Ignore these mirrors, but perhaps something like this:
Hope this helps! Reach out if you have any questions.Aron thanked Kristina Lawrence Interior Designlynartist
26 days agoIt’s a matter of personal preference and I would agree adding a border after the fact would be more difficult and messier than if done before! For myself, butting up two disparate types of tiles without a border looks somewhat unfinished. Imagine any of these without the border treatment.
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RedRyder
26 days agomarylonn27
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joots07
17 days ago
Barbara Almandarz
17 days agoAron
5 days agolast modified: 5 days agoAron
5 days agoSSeSee vanity my wife ordered it will interestedinteresting to see how ththey go together
PROJeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor
5 days agoAron
5 days agolast modified: 5 days ago@Jeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor The tub is just an air tub with a hand shower. The shower is to the right outside the picture see new pics and will have a glass enclosure. Notice how the floor darkened even from the grout! smh even the the tiles were first sealed. After the lighting is put in it should look better. btw The herringboe sample in the attached pic is what my wife was thinking about replacing the honeycomb with but home she comes around to the way it is now as to rip it out would be a big pain in pocket.
Aron
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