Tile Time!

So we got the call earlier this week that we needed to finalize all of our tile choices in the house... Uh welcome to Panic Town USA population: 1!

So as I was focusing on light fixtures, vanities, and outside paint colors I completely forgot that we needed to finalize our tile choices

First stop is the flooring in the main house:

This is a Color Body porcelain tile. We would have loved to have real wood floors but that's just not possible when you own 3 huge huskies! So tile it is! This is one of the best ones out on the market right now, it features 3-D printing technology along with some of the most realistic grain waves we have felt from any brand! It's a nice looking tile for sure and will defiantly be able to withstand the moments when our go-fast dogs decide to go crazy in the house. :) This is not where I was panicing that would be saved for the bathrooms.... 

This is an actual photo of the main floor tile and the grout, the line should be super thin so that it has more of a real wood floor look! I am so excited!

Master bathroom:

 With the building codes being well... not what I wanted ha I decided to go in more of a "Zen" spa feeling in the bathroom... For the floors we will be switching to more of a darker look we originally thought of doing slate in there but with the prices being a leeetle out of our budget we started to look at other options.

These 3 big tiles here were some of our choices, we ended up going with the one in the middle. This tile we found at Lowes for a great price! It has the slightest shimmer to it almost as if someone sprinkled glitter on the floors (Yes, I am VERY excited about this!) The lightest one of the group is our shower wall tile. This one we found at Alpha Tile & Stone near our work, this one was really cool because it has some lighter specks in it! For the shower floor we decided to go with a river rock:

I have seen a few photos of showers with this in it and there was just something that I kept coming back to. I know that it probably wont always feel the best on my feet but honestly we have a bench in there so it doesn't really matter :) In the photo above you can also see the flooring for the 2 guest bathrooms. Its a chalk white tile and its stunning as well! That green speck of sample tile that has been in these photos is actually one of the shower tiles! 

We have had a bit of a struggle with this one! We needed a total of 99 sqft of tile in the back guest bathroom when I originally picked out this tile I intended on doing the entire shower, but when they called to find out what was in stock they didn't have enough. This tile comes from Italy and as it turns out the factory where it is made shuts down for a month in the summer.... well it just so happens to be the month we needed to order our tile! Aye! So we headed back to Alpha and started picking other possible choices:

First I thought, why not just do it in this white.... but no thanks that bathroom would end up being this bland white room, not to mention that I would hate to have to clean this all the time. 

Then maybe blue, but if I want to do a "Mermaid" theme in that room I dont want the shower to be so... blue. I am honestly using the word "mermaid" lightly. I would like it to be implied but not in your face. If I wanted to do that I would have thrown the budget out the door and done a tile a little more like this:

Yes. I stood there and drooled for a little bit when I saw this tile. How stunning is this!? Back to reality for now and back to looking at other options... 

For a split second I thought about this guy... but then it would be like showering in a cave. That seems uncomfortable. 

I may or may not have curled up into a small ball at work for a few min while I freaked out. All my plans swam right out the window with this dern company taking some time off! 

I mean come on guys! In the end I was able to crawl back out of my pocket of sadness and pull myself back together... 

THIS is the final option for the shower! These lovely bubble stones will be located on the floor and after calling the company back we were told that they had 85 sqft of the tile which would be enough to do the shower! CRISIS ADVERTED! haha! This beautiful sea foam green tile has a ton of texture to it and unlike your normal glass tile that just has the color in on the back of it with the glass set on top this is also a through body tile, so no matter how much scrubbing I do to it it will never lose the beautiful color. On top of all of that it has been made with recycled materials! Yay! If you cant find a vendor in your area you can find this product on most eco friendly building materials sites! (well not this color... we bought all of that haha) I cant wait to see how this all looks together! 

For the other guest bathroom we decided to go with a standard subway tile 

Nothing too crazy... except to break up the white we found this lovely glass accent tile to run a band around. 

This has some lovely blacks, browns, silvers, and all sorts of other beautiful pearl-esk accents to it. It reminds me of a butterfly's wings, its very delicate looking. 

All in all we have ordered roughly 3 1/2 tons of tile. Yep. TONS! Ha. Guess our tile guy gets to have a real work out! 

This is one of the loads of tile that we actually picked up today! I was so excited they forked it over to the car! 

Here we go! You can feel the weight in the back with all this tile and I know that this just a fraction of the tile that will be in the house but its massive already! 

Since we are on the subject of bathrooms, this also happened:

The front of my tub is coming together. Yep I shed a little tear over this detail! 

Well I'll end this post for now and we are headed over to see the house today and I'll update more later... but a sneak...