Buying glass tile is a lot like buying candy when you were a kid. You’d always end up with way too much candy and not enough money when you left the place. A tile supply store can be just like that.
Homeowners often go crazy when they buy tile whether it’s at the store up the street or it’s online in their bathrobe. But if you keep your cool, take your time and follow these basic tips for buying tile, you can be sure you’ll get the mix of glass tile, grout and design ideas for that perfect glass tile renovation project everyone in your home will be sure to love-especially your savings account.
Layout Style
Everyone tends to think in terms of colors when they first decide upon a glass tile choice, but I like to mix it up a bit. By choosing the design layout first, you can better choose a color combination that will make your design match-even when the colors don’t. Layout styles vary from:
- · Stacked
- · Subway
- · Staggered
- · Rectangle
- · Square
- · Diagonal
- · Inset
Color
After you pick a layout style, settle on a color that you can live with for a few decades. In other words, don’t pick out that avocado green or jack-o-lantern orange for your tile. Neutral colors are best not only for better resale value, but also so you don’t have to replace the tile if you change your bathroom décor every so often. Follow these tips when choosing a glass tile color and you can’t go wrong:
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- · Textures- Texture isn’t really a color-or is it? With some more intricate multiple layered glass tile textures, unique accents on familiar colors can make glass tile colors so crazy that they change as you move across the space-just like the time you heard colors and tasted sound at that Grateful Dead concert.
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