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Please help me with tile selection
It's been such a difficult process for us to decide on a tile! It's for a 500 sq foot family room that will be utilized as a playroom, office, workout, and extra couch and tv. so basically a multi purpose room. We decided for sure on tiling. We will use area rugs where needed. I want something easy to clean and maintain and something that should last a lifetime. We are looking at this:
http://www.riterug.com/tile-flooring/woodland-verde-fs96-tile-flooring-by-daltile/
Does anyone know if this tile is decent?? I have someone coming to give a quote.
Re: Please help me with tile selection
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It's a nice looking tile. I'll be honest I normally don't like a huge difference in color from tile to tile though especially in a big space. It will be hard to make it look random and visually it looks more choppy. (Similar to how people on this board always suggest using the same color flooring even if it's different materials in an open floor plan.)
Having just gone though this the hardest part of using this tile will be the lack of different patterns. We just installed some American Olean tile in our bathroom (they are owned by Daltile) and we found the tile only came in 4 patterns! Luckily it was only in a small space and we went with big 18x18 tile so the repeated grain patterns aren't as obvious. Pics here. We did a 1/4 turn layout as well so it disguised the repeated tiles as well. In a 500sf space it would be impossible to hide repeated patterns with only 4 options. I have since come to learn that for cheaper tile like that only 4 patterns is actually standard. Higher end brands have a much higher number of tile patterns per box. Now I know. We're avoiding this issue on the larger master bathroom floor by using a solid pattern tile and a brand with more pattern variety on the shower walls. I would try calling around to see if anyone can tell you how many different tile patterns you're actually be getting. Crossville and Arizona Tile are brands that are supposed to have more variety in their tile patterns and are middle of the line in the price. To compare my American Olean 18x18 tiles were on average $3/sf and the Crossville and Arizona Tile 18x18 tile quotes I got were between $5-7/sf.
HTH
At first, I was going to say, the variation does not matter and it depends on what you like thinking that the tile I am considering to buy has very low variation. But after double checking the specs, it actually has a very high variation.
Good luck choosing. I have not finalized my tile selections.
Do you mean the V4 that is listed for the tile? That is how much color difference there is between one tile to the next not how many tiles patterns their are. Porcelain tiles made to look like natural stone normally have a high variation (V4)...one is very dark, one is very light, one is a different color, the other another...but there may be only those 4 different tiles (the 4 shown). In a large space that may mean you have +50 of each of the 4 colors all with the same grain pattern printed on each style. You can rotate the tile around to disguise the pattern more but the color can't be hidden or changed.
A different brand tile with more patterns will give you a much wider range of colors to work with which looks much more natural. Having say 8 different tiles to pick from greatly improves how realistic the tiles will look in a big space. You would have say very dark, dark, medium, light, very light, and 3 different colored ones. Many more possibilities and much easier to make a random looking pattern.