Friday, July 16, 2010

TILE, BABY TILE.

I am obsessed with tile, especially penny rounds & hex. 
Here's the tile we will be using for our house.


DOWNSTAIRS
DEN BATHROOM : white penny round tile. [installed with curved edges]

















DEN SINK [outside of bathroom] : white dimensional diamond tile from Heath 
[white grout]



























PATIO : mix & match green tile from Heath for built-in bench.













UPSTAIRS
KITCHEN BACKSPLASH : Black hex tile. 


The kitchen will be all white IKEA cabinets. The glossy finish. [we have the non-gloss white IKEA cabinets next door in the rental, and it doesn't hold up as well as a glossy finish would].


For kitchen counters we will either be installing CaeserStone in white (although I hate the lil' flakes). But I just read on Remodelista that CaeserStone is coming out with a New Pure White. Solid! I like!


Or...that black material used in school labs that is pretty much indestructible.


Well, at least we got the kitchen back splash figured out! Black hex + black/gray grout. 
From counters to ceiling about 8 ft of tile. Yum!






























BATHROOM : Floor : white hex tile, curved at shower pan and curving up on edges against wall [black grout].
Wall wainscotting : Black field tile. 
Rest of wall : white 3D subway tile.























Black field tile : this is NOT it, but somewhat similar...
























And the 3D subway tile :




































It's a small, oddly shaped (square sucks!) bathroom with 11'ft ceilings. So, for a small bathroom, it'll have a lot of tile. The ceiling will be painted Benjamin Moore's Bath & Spa Aura paint in pigeon gray [matte] and so will the chandelier that's stored in the garage. A matte primed look. Not sure about the chandelier, I only kept it because GoodWill wouldn't take it, I feel sorry for it.


We're using the same kitchen trough sink from Kohler, as we used for the "salvaged-post-floating-sink", in the den, but instead of undermounting it to a 100 yr old post, we will class it up and use a veiny white carrera marble slab. 






























If we're lucky and have some hex tile left, then we'll use that for the front entrance steps.

And that's all I have to say about tile!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey my name is alex... and i must say your place is quite awesome...>!

minamo said...

Danke Schatz!

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