Tile Shopping
We've been busy, busy, busy shopping for tiles. What started with the intention to buy all tile from one shop quickly changed when we discovered the fun of tile outlet centres. You end up having to buy just a bit extra for overage (because your tile may not be there if you go back for more). And we've also discovered the savings of contractor discounts. The old adage of buy-more, save-more is true when it comes to building a house.
Months ago, we had first picked our main floor tile - we're using close to 1,500 square feet of this tile. We first saw it in a tile shop for $6.99 a square foot. Given our "volume" purchase, they marked it down to $4.25 a square foot. We were pretty happy with this, until we walked into another kitchen & bathroom store to price check our bathtub, and found our exact tile with a list price of 3.99 a square foot. hmmmmm. This is when we realized it was going to pay to shop around for our tile purchase. In the end, our volume discount with this tile shop snagged us our main floor tile for $2.97 a square foot.
Although we haven't bought anything just yet - we've decided on the following:
- a very neutral grey-white tile for the main floor 24x24
- venatino marble for the master ensuite 12x24
- Calcutta marble for Sienna's bathroom 24x24
- Grey porcelain for Victor's bathroom 24x24
- Earthy brown porcelain tiles for the guest bathroom - 12x24
I will start posting pictures of our tile selections once we actually start to place some orders.
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