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Travertine-Look Porcelain Tile

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Help! Can anyone recommend a good travertine or limestone-look porcelain tile? I'm specifically looking for one with non-rectified (chiseled) edges to look like real stone. I would really prefer to use porcelain for maintenance reasons. I found one I like (Happy Floors Pietra D'Assisi in Bianco) but at $9.99/sq ft it's a bit out of my budget. Was hoping to stay less than $5/sq ft. Any recommendations?

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thinkdesignlive

last month

Virginia Tile makes one called Pietra something or other - Jeanne Stouffer used it in one of her projects and I think it’s what you’re looking for. Might be more than $5 (but I know it’s less than $10) per sf

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Minardi
last month
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Time machine to 2002 and 1/2" grout joints. And it was more than $5 then.
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Catherine B
Original Author
last month
What a helpful comment. Thanks so much.
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avignon-- If you're looking into rectified porcelain (In Crossville, that would be their Empire Series), you want a tight grout joint-- standard is 1/16". As for the others, I'll tell you right now-- Porcelanosa will be more expensive. ALOT more expensive. They're one of the top shelf manufacturers in the world. As for Laufen, that you might find for a good price. Here's a shower I did with their travertine lookalike rectified tile: One other thing to think about. I don't know just how close you want to be, but the tile in the next picture is a very run of the mill stock tile from Daltile. It's not even porcelain-- just a standard glazed ceramic tile, which means you'd need to use a larger grout joint (I usually use a 3/16" joint with this tile)but for glazed tile, it's one of the best travertine lookalikes I've seen yet. In fact, I liked it SO much, that I used the 18x18 version in my own bath in the apartment I just moved out of (otherwise, I'd show you pics!): That's Daltile's Salerno Series SL83
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chispa
last month
Why this tile look?

Many on these forums are ripping out travertine-look tiles to replace with more "updated" choices. It could still work in the right house, but without seeing photos of the space and furnishings, we are just guessing.
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McDonald Enterprises
last month
Look at Daltile's new Calligo line for a nice modern interpretation of vein cut travertine. But no one wants to go back to those Tuscan era chiseled edge impossible to clean floors. The get ripped out by the thousands of feet, because they are awful to live with.
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Catherine B
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last month
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I'm going for a French/English country look like this. Like something you would see in deVOL Kitchens.

The house is currently empty and everything will be painted, countertops/backsplash replaced, so providing pictures of the current space wouldn't be very helpful.

Thanks for the suggestion re: Daltile's Calligo. It's close, but the edges appear to be rectified. I'm trying to avoid a modern look.

Everything I've found has been from the UK or is around $10/sq ft. I was just hoping there was something out there I hadn't come across that someone has used.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
last month
I don't think you are looking for Travertine.

This product you have posted is limestone, similar, but not the same.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5906120/quest-for-tumbled-limestone-flooring-in-the-us#n=86

https://beyondflooring.com/product/ostuni-avorio-16-x-24/?gQT=0
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clt3
last month
I agree with the comments above. We have real travertine with those chiseled edges and I would love to trash all of it. Way, way, way too much grout to keep clean and I hate them.
Tish
last month
Chiseled edge floors are an invitation to a nice dark dirt frame around the tile. Even a steam cleaner has issues with removing the dirt from those divots.
debrak6
last month
The limestone look tile many of us have used is Cerdomus Pietra di Ostuni (Virginia Tile is a US distributor, not the manufacturer.) I got many samples from different sources and it looked the most like limestone. There are threads on it you can find; some ordered it from Tile.Expert. at significant cost savings over the Virginia Tile price. It's pretty gorgeous.
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la_la Girl
last month
Have you seen this thread? https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/6061284/seeking-help-sourcing-large-format-limestone-look-tile#n=227
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last month
Real stone is not always a chisled edge for the simple fact that it still needs to look nice and be installed with small grout lines if possible . I have used real travertine many times never a chisled edge
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