House Remodeling Thread (long)

[Trek420]

I think I found my backsplash tile.

That's been surprisingly hard to do. It's so tough when you have an idea in mind and "wouldn't it be so simple if someone had this"and nobody does.

I wanted something on mesh to save H (and therefore me) time, cream/off white to go with the some Mexican decorative tiles I've picked up, different sizes to pop in those accent tiles, and not busy or highly textured so it's neutral .... but not boring.

I could get just solid cream color regular porcelain tile but:
To me that just screams "bathroom floor".
Smooth tile cut to size will always have chips/nicks along the edges
It'd take a lot of labor

On the other hand I found lots of Travertine (sp?) right color, size pattern but so much texture it was busy and screams "hard to keep clean".

Yesterday I found this .... and on sale! Hilary my contractor just e-mailed me "buy it!!!!! Buy 26' of it!!"

You can see the tiles I kept finding in other shops to the right. I just felt it was too busy, too much texture, too much competition with the granite.

Tulip, ready to spend days and days searching for the perfect _____? Welcome to the "Oys of remodeling"