Day 220 - The happy ending of the ensuite shower story

Back when we were tile shopping I mad the mistake of looking at and falling in love with this...

A curved shower stall with graduated mosaic tiles. It reminded me of the spa at Center Parcs where several of the experiences have curved tiled areas.

Of course it was way out of our budget. I knew we could never have a curved shower stall and I'd reluctantly resigned myself to just having a regular tiled ensuite.

But those graduated mosaic tiles kept haunting me.

So I spent an entire Sunday afternoon searching on the internet, mostly to cost it up and talk myself out of the idea.

First I was thinking that if we bought a selection of mosaic tile sheets and I put in a fair amount of effort to swap over individual tiles I could make a graduated effect. That may have been a crazy idea

But then I found this picture



And the text with it implied that it was made from sheets of graduated mosaic tiles - oooh, that could work.

So with a lot more digging I found the tile company OriginalStyle who sold boxes of 8 sheets of different mosaics which would create a graduated effect. And there was a local supplier in Woodley - result.

Called them on Monday - bad news, no display and no samples. Each box of tiles was £80, they'd do me a deal and sell me a box as a sample for £50.

£50 for a sample! Best not to think about if I didn't like it...

A week later the sample arrived - a box of 8 labelled sheets - we laid it out on the floor of the tile shop - it looked pretty good.



[I went for a different colour scheme than the picture I'd originally found because this included iridescent tiles like in the original inspiration]

Originally I'd thought to just do one wall in the graduated and the other 2 sides in something cheaper, but lovely man I live with said if I really wanted it, the extra cost wasn't too much and I should have it. How fabulous is he?!

So we ordered enough boxes to do the whole ensuite shower.

We'd now spent rather a lot of money on these tiles without much of an idea whether they'd actually look any good once they were up.

For me this was like one of those home shows with the big reveal and I'm not ashamed to say I actually got a bit choked up when I saw it...

 

 


The pictures don't really do them justice, they are just wonderful.

The idea was to have something OTT and fabulous that would make me smile everytime I stumbled bleary eyed into the shower of a morning - I think we succeeded.