Tile Mania

I really like tile.

Shiny white Subway tile
Kelley green glass tile
Shiny white Subway tile
Creamy honed marble tile
Shiny white Subway tile
Those little white hexagon tiles from the olden days
Shiny white Subway tile

Pretty much everything except tan tile.  I got really tired of tan tile in my last house.  It is very popular to build in camouflage in Utah and tan blends right into the countryside.  So we had A Lot of tan in our house.  It was beautiful, but I am ready for a change, and declared my new home a tan free zone.  It's not good camouflage when you live on the ocean, someone might see us!

Building a new house turns out to be a most excellent reason to do a lot of shopping!  Hooray!  Let me repeat this, I NEED to do a lot of shopping.  It's my current job, my responsibility.  And I take my responsibilities very seriously.

So, I faced reality and forced myself to head to the tile showroom.  I forced myself several times, because the tile showroom employees apparently do not share my desire to drive around on snow days, and were closed the first two times I showed up.

Three times is a charm however, and Thursday I met Julie, who helped me figure out my tile needs.  Tile showrooms are wonderful.  There are no prices to be seen.  You just choose 'birds nest blend pebbles' for the dog shower floor, and 'spring green art glass' for an accent wall in the powder room.  And, let's have 'honed crema white cloud' marble for the floor in the master bath!

It's awesome.  Julie and I are best friends, picking out tile for my new house, and there are no prices, and Julie doesn't know the prices.  And in my fun, best friends shopping together scenario, all bids and estimates come in with hardly any zeros at the end of the dollar amounts.

Then, just a day later, my best friend Julie becomes my tile sales representative, and sends me an estimate.  With a lot of zeros tacked on.

My fantasy world has turned into a reality where I apparently want 3000 pounds of tile in my house (do you think I need to inform my structural engineer?)' and it will cost $1400 just to get it here.  From New Jersey.  Really?  And, spring green art glass walls cost $2000.  So do crema white honed marble floors.  I don't even want to talk about the dog shower.  It's for washing DOGS for crying out loud!

The good news is I can afford shiny white Subway tires.  Hooray!

I have to go.  I have a lot of tile shopping to do on the Lowe's website.  Let me know if you are building a house with unlimited funds  and need help choosing tile. I'm your girl!