AAACCCCCKKKKKK!!! Picking tile or...

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Relax! This is what I do every day. Enjoy the creative process!

Get a few magazines. My favorites for great ideas without being weird or insanely expensive (i.e. Ann Sacks tile!!!) are House Beautiful and Traditional Home. Pick up a few special edition bathroom-only zines too.

You can also just go through Pinterest. Pin the bathrooms you like, but this next step will be harder online:

Tear out pages you like.

Lay out said pages afterward. See a pattern? Are you liking white tile? Accent tiles? High contrast? Sandy colors?

Have a plan before you pick the tile. Say you like gray-white marble on the floors, and white Subway tiles for the walls/shower. You notice you like dark, straight-line cabinets, and are drawn to bathrooms with light paint and brushed nickel finishes. Done. Write it down. Don't lose track of it. Create a plan, stick with it.

If you can't see a pattern to what you like, ask a (as in ONE) friend whose taste you trust and who knows you. I said ONE because the worst thing you can do is what we in the industry call Design By Committee. It's design, a creative process, so there is no one right answer - but if you take one answer from Friend A and one from Friends B, C, D, and E, you'll have a mess. I've seen it over and over again.

Enjoy! We're hoping to sell our house this year, and get another that needs help - I am SO excited at the prospect of remodeling another house for ourselves!