Thanks all! Yes, unfortunately the Daltile is only available in 3"x6"---they also make a 2"x4" but it only comes premounted on mesh with 1/8" grout lines, and I want 1/16" grout lines. The AO tile doesn't appear to be bullnosed on the website (they have another that is) but it's hard to tell, and just not sure it's worth trekking out there if it's not even a contender. I did try Subway Ceramics but they will only sell through designers or architects so now I'm trying to figure out who I know who could order them! We'll see. I'll look for TileSource and Home and Stone, though---we'd be happy with either 2x6 or 2x4.

I love the look of "commercial-style" faucets with exposed springs/coils and spent hours narrowing down my top choices for our complete kitchen remodel -- only to realize last night that there's no way my son will replace the spout on the holder. I just know it will end up dangling and drive me crazy. I need to make a decision ASAP. We're going for an industrial farmhouse type look in our cozy English Tudor home - white subway tiles, black counter, and the works. I was hoping for a distinctive faucet. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I found an interesting option - 12681 from La Torre - but have never heard of the brand and can't find much online - anyone know anything about it? http://www.efaucets.com/detail.asp?product_id=12681%20CHR Thanks!

Hello, I have faucets in my condo purchased from Latorre by builder Concord. We have been informed about life time warranty that we cannot get nowhere. In Vancouver BC nobody wants to help unless you pay from$ 75 dollars and up for what suppost to be warranty product. Even those duds wants nothing to do with warranty. Please forward our concerns to the manufactory as 5 weeks is noway to get any respond. Another choice is to boycott everybody who advertise LAtorre Faucets. Need your help

I should mention a few more things. It's not necessarily that I was made to feel stupid or wrong, I see others (usually inexperienced in the particular topic) that have their comments shredded by the self-appointed experts and feel empathy for them. I started this thread after looking for and not finding an old post from the Ponds and Aquatic Plants GW forum several years ago that really stuck with me. The poster was a biologist that was very generous with his time and knowledge and that forum was lucky to have him. He had a lot of experience and understood water quality issues that typical water gardening enthusiasts encounter while pursuing their hobby. Another poster, a woman was in tears at the advice given by the forum 'expert' that she 'must' tear her pond out and install bottom drains or her 12,000-gallon pond would become a cesspool. This modification was beyond her budget and since she'd been told by the resident self-appointed expert (not the real expert, the biologist) that she was killing her koi by not following this advice, she was looking for people to adopt her mature koi and she was on verge of shutting down the pond. She had been maintaining this huge pond in her yard for 20+ years and it had always been healthy, no fish kills or water quality issues and it brought her a great deal of happiness. She merely posted asking for advice about an extended suspended algae or green water issue and foam from DOCs. The biologist came to her rescue with an alternate treatment that did not require ripping out the pond and starting over. There was a huge pissing match between the 'forum expert' and this actual expert about the fact that all ponds must have bottom drains. In the end, the pond hobbyist cleared her pond water using a low tech solution suggested by the biologist allowing her to keep her pond (and happy place). The biologist posted a couple of weeks later about the forums often having self-appointed experts that offered the same tired advice over and over. His words were a work of art and I wish I could find that post. Bossyvossy, I am right there with you on spider lilies. I must have 5 different plants that were passed to me as 'spider lilies'. Some are hymenocallis, some crinum, some lycoris and even a cleome! Proper plant nomenclature is important, I do agree. I just wish that these experts could be a bit more diplomatic when speaking to inexperienced horticulturalists. I just don't think that it's a good practice to shame someone else just to be 'right'.