another post about bathroom tile

i know i've posted about the bathroom tile sometime last year. we're basically at the same point in our bathroom remodel now as we were then. what's the hold up, you ask? money. same ole' answer. but if this bathroom remodel isn't completed by christmas, santa will be delivering divorce papers.

we went back to the tile place last weekend to revisit our quote and to check out the tiles again. because not only are we poor, we are terribly unorganized and lost our quote. the above pictures are the two contenders, which are the same as in the post from last year. i really love the color on the left but i love the crackle style and the "un-rounded" square shape on the right. mind you the tile will be subway, not 4x4 as shown in the samples. they are actually both glossy as opposed to a true matte tile but the picture doesn't really reflect that. anyways, we are working on the renovation budget to see when we can order. if the cost of all of our tile wasn't so damn expensive we'd be finished with this by now. why can't we just be comfortable buying white subway tile from the chain big box stores like everyone else??? (there's my house snob coming out. sorry.)

adventures in tile & other bathroom decisions

last week we ventured to two stores in order to help through this process of picking out fixtures and tile for our bathroom remodel. the first was Economy Plumbing in downtown indy. joe helped us and he was so nice. we picked out a few fixtures and he priced them for us. he recommended a few high-end lines but also mentioned that one can't go wrong with delta faucets (good to know). currently we're considering this chrome fixture for our pedestal sink. the only difference is we would like to have the cross handles.

ahhh...now on to the tile. over the weekend we went to Architectural Brick & Tile. omg. if you love house remodeling and tiles and flooring you would LOVE this place. beeeautiful tiles everywhere. lots of eye candy. however they closed at 3 and we arrived around 1:45 so we only had time to get down to business...no perusing for the fun of it. our lovely sales gal, kristina, priced three lines for us: meredith, irongate, and sonoma stellar.

so we're probably going to get either the one in the upper left hand corner or the one directly below it. the ones in the top row are from my current tile nemesis mission tile west. but the ones in the middle are considerably more expensive and have almost the exact same colors. so...decisions, decisions.

and to add on to that - grout choices!! pretty excited about this. we're not doing white grout. that's just too boring for us. the colors with the arrows are the ones we're considering.

what about the floor? definitely black, white and then some other color. here are the current choices:

i could have made three different posts out of this one. oh well. so excited about the colors we've narrowed it down to at this point. in my mind's eye it is all beautiful and relaxing in there. can't wait to see it live and in person.

bathroom tile dilemma

so we started thinking about our bathroom remodel months ago. at that time we were hoping to have started and completed the darn thing already. we haven't even started. part of it is we've been distracted by fabulous weather ... thus the landscaping and time spent outside. the other part is my utter disgust with the dust issue ... thus the attic project. the landscaping is probably finished for now (more to come next year) and we will finish our part of the attic project over the 4th weekend.

so here we are back to our bathroom dilemma. the third reason for our procrastination (always must have good excuses, er, reasons for NOT finishing projects) is the tile. omg. i thought picking out items was supposed to be the easy part. the tile is becoming such a burden. we were originally going to order our tile from Mission Tile West. but we have had so much trouble with them that i think that is off the table. i'm going to save my ranting & raving post for later, just in case we need to actually order from them but all i'll say is this: for the amount of money we were going to spend on this tile their customer service is crap. terrible. i highly would recommend not even bothering beginning a conversation with these people.

i'm pushing for us to make a decision on our tile so this weekend we're going to go to a store locally called Architectural Brick & Tile. we're going to check out the Meredith Art Tile line. online this line looks like what we've been thinking about doing. i'm crazy about this color which is way different than the pink we were thinking about buying. it's called 'seaglass'. we're still going to do the 3x6 field tiles but not sure about the rest. i'll update after we look this weekend. yeah!

bathroom update

We still haven't started the bathroom renovation yet. We're currently waiting on some more tile samples for the floor. We have simplified the tile design for the wall and tweaked the color scheme a bit so that's why we ordered new samples. Here is a pic of what the wall tile will look like but in a different color scheme. We're not taking the tile around the mirror but I do think we're going to order those sconces. Cute, uh? This is a scanned page from a 2006 Rejuvenation catalog that I just found sitting around the house the other day. Crazy what you'll find around here if you dig deep enough.