robin, Thanks for letting me know the floors are oak laminate. It amazes me that I keep liking oak floors when I too had been dead set against oak floors due to not liking my veneer oak cabinets that came with my townhouse and this cheap oak engineered wood floors in the foyers that have very thick coarse grain in them that is very busy. Maybe I would even be open to an engineered oak floor that is not too grainy that is stained cherry. I also am still open to laminate but due to my cherry furniture in my office, I had my heart set on a cherry wood floor with tiled foyers. I just wish my foyers were bigger but I live in North Jersey and as single person needing a lot of square footage to have a big home office as well as lots of personal space, the stylish townhouse fit me better. If I sold my townhouse and moved south, I could get a really nice house with a big beautiful foyer but I am realizing being alone, I am not yet ready to move with my clients here an my clients are so nice. The location I live in is expensive and I chose this townhouse over the house with more land and more bedrooms that was the same price due to the location not appealing to me. Thanks also Robin for letting me know the paint color. It truly is very neutral and may be nice in my home office to warm up the walls. I will try a sample out when I am ready to repaint. I love all my window treatments in my home I chose except for my first choice that is in the home office. I dislike the long strings of my Alta (a division of Hunter Douglas) double honeycomb blinds since they are always messy and tangling. I dislike the neutral color I chose (an off-white with a taupe faint design in it that looks great in the day time) at night since the blinds then appear gray. I wish I went with the 3/4" size pleat rather than the 1/2" size pleat. But I did not make these mistakes again and I learned that it is worth paying a little more for retractable cords or continuous loop cords or going cordless if you are tall (I am not). When you are ready for blinds, let me know and I will take pics of my other window treatments that I love especially my Champaign colored Shangri-La sheer horizontal blinds in my family room that has a cathedral ceiling and a wall of windows. The blinds really make the room so bright and happy and goes so well with the Bone White walls and bright white trim. Everyone who sees them loves them. I also love my retractable corded top-down bottom up Architella black-out Duet blinds in the linen color in my bedroom softened up with crinkled soft white sheers around them.

try Tilebar. I just ordered quite a few of their samples and they are gorgeous. you can get 5 samples for only $5. I've listed this link:,,,,plus a few others w/pics. Or you can search large format porcelain tiles on their page. https://tilebar.com/collection/porcelain-tile/shop-by-look-porcelain/cement-look-tile.html?filtersize=657 https://tilebar.com/ambience-crema-8x48-natural-porcelain-tile.html https://tilebar.com/twilight-silver-12x48-metal-look-polished-porcelain-tile.html https://tilebar.com/medoacus-beige-24x24-polished-porcelain-tile.html https://tilebar.com/holland-blanc-12x24-polished-porcelain-tile.html https://tilebar.com/portamento-sand-24x24-porcelain-tile.html https://tilebar.com/basic-sandstone-beige-24x24-matte-porcelain-tile.html

I am definitely a no shoes household. Does that really make a difference between a 3 and 4 PEI? This is definitely not an area I am familiar with even with the research I've done.

When I just looked using "what is" this is what I found. "Rectified tiles are ceramic or porcelain tiles that have been precisely ground and machined to give them near-perfect straight edges and exact dimensions. These tiles provide a very clean, symmetrical look, and allow for extremely fine grout lines of 3mm or less (typically using unsanded grout,." I would ask for another quote if the first one did not explain the difference and just gave you a name and price.