Decorating Regrets?

[dr.girlfriend]

Mar 22, 2022 8:48:19 GMT -5 deadwing said:

The expensive one is reallllly pretty. For a bathroom, would you have a mat down? I only ask because that's pretty typical in bathrooms and in a small powder room that might cover most of your beautiful design.

simpsongal Unfortunately the stove inset was just my inspiration ... I would be using it as floor tile in my powder room.  But, the whole room is only 50" x 50" so it would still only be around $3500 total for the tile.  Maybe not much bigger than the stove inset honestly!  And yeah, to me expensive things that don't make sense (like a t-shirt with a Balenciaga logo that's like $500) I would never consider, but for this it is stone mosaic on mesh, so a lot of workmanship went into every tile -- every little color is its own piece of stone!

deadwing  This is the powder room just off the living room so it's mostly for guest use.  We've never had a mat in there.  There's no tub or shower.

It's so tiny it's hard to get a good picture but here's what it looks like now:




On the bright side we are a shoes-off house, and I don't think anyone is going to track mud in there or spill nail polish or anything like that.  It's kind of a pee-only bathroom, and fortunately my son is past that stage where he's terrible at aiming.  :-)

[simpsongal]

dr.girlfriend - after I posted I thought I may have misread that re the stove - I still say go for it.
I had a few splurges in my primary bath and I love that room every.time.I.walk.in

[dr.girlfriend]

Mar 22, 2022 14:47:41 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

dr.girlfriend - after I posted I thought I may have misread that re the stove - I still say go for it.
I had a few splurges in my primary bath and I love that room every.time.I.walk.in

I'm actually going to send in the order form authorization tomorrow!  :-)  Talking about it on here has really given me some momentum.  Hopefully I'll get a bit of the June shipment!

[ellipses84]

The only regret I’ve had was not renovating the kitchen in our old house when we first moved in. I was just being a MM conservative new home owner and we ended up selling the house before ever doing it. I think the value of the upgrade would have been reflected in the sale price and we could have enjoyed it for years while we lived there instead of hating the kitchen the whole time.

I’m in the design/construction industry so I have a case of “the cobblers children have no shoes.” My dreams far exceed my budget and DIY time, and I feel like I’ll be judged if my house doesn’t look amazing. I have a lot of confidence and feel like my style is more refined and sophisticated than it used to be. I can easily give people advice, but I will still agonize over my own space. It took me months to hang half the art in our new house, I moved it all around a few months later and I still have more to hang. I don’t have any regrets about permanent upgrades I’ve done.

[ellipses84]

I love the expensive tile, and don’t think it’s a fair comparison to the cheaper one. The cheaper one is nice, just different, and not that custom mosaic look.

[heygrey]

We haven't done any major permanent renovations, but of the decor and smaller projects we've done, all of my regrets were tied to being cheap. I'm learning that if something is really important to me I need to spend the money, even if it means saving up. So I would get the expensive tile if that's what you love