Another quick tile question

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I'm going to be purchasing tile soon for my new pantry area and have decided that I'm going to use the same tile in the kitchen and foyer. Right now, those areas all have the same flooring, which is just sheet vinyl. My upstairs bathroom (the only full bathroom in the house) has the same flooring. Should I also buy enough for this room? It's a small room, so I'd probably only need an additional box. I'm not planning a renovation of this bathroom any time soon, probably not for another 5-7 years. Will I want to have the same tile as I'll have on the main floor, or does it not matter?

For what it's worth, I'm leaning towards doing a dark grey tile 12x24 size on the 1st floor. The only thing that gives me pause about doing that, is that I would want to do a white grout and I worry about keeping it clean. My 2nd place contender would be a carrara marble look tile, same size, with a dark grey grout. 

[candreco]

Unless it's tile you really love and want in your bathroom, I wouldn't bother making it match the tile in different rooms on a different floor. Honestly, I would lean toward wanting them to be different actually.

[k3am]

If I can't see it from other rooms, I don't really care that much if it matches. I do like continuity of style in theory, but it doesn't have to be a match.

I'm trying to figure out if there are ANY circumstances I'd ever sign up for white grout on a floor in my home and not really coming up with any.

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Feb 19, 2019 11:31:03 GMT -5 candreco said:

Unless it's tile you really love and want in your bathroom, I wouldn't bother making it match the tile in different rooms on a different floor. Honestly, I would lean toward wanting them to be different actually.

I'm glad you said that. I didn't really want to do the same tile, but I was thinking about it yesterday, so wanted to ask. The bathroom is small, and when the time comes I was really hoping to use a statement tile. Thanks for responding!

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Feb 19, 2019 11:41:35 GMT -5 k3am said:

If I can't see it from other rooms, I don't really care that much if it matches. I do like continuity of style in theory, but it doesn't have to be a match.

I'm trying to figure out if there are ANY circumstances I'd ever sign up for white grout on a floor in my home and not really coming up with any.

Ugh. I know. I love the look, but I know that it just isn't practical. I'm just afraid that doing a dark tile with a dark grout would just be too dark, which is why I keep going back to a white tile with grey in it and then grey grout. I hate making decisions for things that are so permanent LOL

[k3am]

@sameoldstory , we did a light tile with light grout in our old house. It eventually became a light tile with dark grout everywhere except in corvers that didn't get much use. So not a fan. And that was with weekly cleaners coming in and regular use of my tile scrubber.

Our second bathroom, we did a darker gray tile with a dark gray grout. It definitely wasn't a statement floor, but it looked fine and didn't come across as too dark. Honestly, grout lines aren't going to really break up the darkness in a tile, so if you're worried about it being too dark with dark grout, you're really just worried about it being too dark in general. 

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Feb 19, 2019 12:52:17 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Feb 19, 2019 11:31:03 GMT -5 candreco said:

Unless it's tile you really love and want in your bathroom, I wouldn't bother making it match the tile in different rooms on a different floor. Honestly, I would lean toward wanting them to be different actually.

Feb 19, 2019 11:41:35 GMT -5 k3am said:

I'm trying to figure out if there are ANY circumstances I'd ever sign up for white grout on a floor in my home and not really coming up with any.

I agree with both of these.

Have you considered a wood-look tile?  We installed it in our master bathroom with a brown grout and it looks amazing.  Something like this:

I would consider it for the bathroom upstairs, as I do like the look of it. 


I wouldn't use it downstairs though. We are going to at some point be redoing the floors in our dining room and living room and they will be hardwood. I don't have an open floor plan per-se, but all of the rooms open up to one another, and I don't want to do the LR/DR in tile (too cold), and I also don't want wood-look tile next to real wood. 

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Feb 19, 2019 13:09:47 GMT -5 k3am said:

@sameoldstory , we did a light tile with light grout in our old house. It eventually became a light tile with dark grout everywhere except in corvers that didn't get much use. So not a fan. And that was with weekly cleaners coming in and regular use of my tile scrubber.

Our second bathroom, we did a darker gray tile with a dark gray grout. It definitely wasn't a statement floor, but it looked fine and didn't come across as too dark. Honestly, grout lines aren't going to really break up the darkness in a tile, so if you're worried about it being too dark with dark grout, you're really just worried about it being too dark in general. 

Honestly, I think that you are spot on with this. My kitchen is a good sized room and we'll be doing all white cabinetry, so I think that the dark floor with dark grout would be good in there as it also gets great natural light and is a big open room.  The foyer however, gets absolutely zero natural light; there is no window, and we can't leave the front door open because my dog lets herself outside, so I'm really worried about that space being even more dark. I'm actually glad I posted this. My original thought was that I wanted a white/bright tile for the first floor with a dark grout, but my husband prefers the darker tile, which I do really like as well, but I just don't think that it'll be great in the entirety of the space. 

[salliekate]

For what it's worth, I have dark grey tile with grey grout in my laundry room (there is no natural light in there at all) and it doesn't feel too dark. Honestly, it kind of just disappears.