Thanks! It was a nightmare DIY project (moved shower and toilet locations which involved gutting the floor and beefing up the joists and tying into old 1926 plumbing. Ugh.) but we loved the result, especially at the ~$1200 price tag! Believe it or not, it's about the cheapest Lowes/Home Depot tile you can get. I really wanted the classic small penny tile but I couldn't afford it! I can't remember the brand... I just searched on line but can't find it. It's ceramic, and is actually an octagon-and-dot style in all white (it's more common and home-depot looking in the black and white pattern, around here.) I think the repeating pattern is about 4" x 4" and it's on 12" sheets. It was very afordable and the finished look was great. It also feels nice on bare feet, and was easy to keep clean. Sorry I don't know the exact brand/stule. We moved and I left the extras for the new owners...

those have been really interesting to see being done..I for sure, would never have thought to put on plates like you did.. where are they going to be hung? bathroom, bedroom, outside?........... if they're weatherproofed, they sure would be cool, out in the yard. I haven't been able to sign any of the work I've done, so far..lol when I did my first portrait, in a seminar,..the instructor wanted me to sign it.. for some reason, I really haven't wanted to, cuz it was a study lesson and not something I started out doing, on my own..so, I put on 3 chicken scratches..lol I love the number 3 and that's all I've put on anything, so far. maybe someday, I'll claim any of my work, 100%..and then I can begin to sign what I make...weird, huh?

We have wavy plaster walls, and the advice I got was to choose smaller tiles rather than larger ones. We used 4x4 squares set in a running bond pattern (staggered instead of lined up on top of each other), and that worked pretty well. If I'd had the sense to hire a decent tile setter, the wall would have been leveled before the tile went up, and that would have made the biggest difference. But even with our semi-incompetent tile setter who left the wall wavy, it's not too bad. The offset pattern definitely helps. Two other things that would have helped in our case would have been to use imperfect handmade (or handmade-look) tile and matching grout. Our tile is perfect machine-cut squares with slightly contrasting grout, and those things show the waviness more; but I can honestly say that after a few months I don't think about it -- not like I did at first when I wanted to run the tile setter out on a rail. lol. So: hire a good tiler (or learn to do it yourself if you are the careful detail-oriented sort), use 4x4 or 3x6 tile, choose a tile pattern that will mask imperfections, and level the wall with thinset or whatever first. If the wall is leveled then I don't think it'll much matter whether you use handmade-looking tile or machine-cut, or what color grout you choose. For our kitchen I liked the straight machine-cut tile better than the faux handmade tile I saw, and I definitely wanted contrasting grout; those are just personal opinion design decisions that'll depend on your taste and the style of your kitchen.

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