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Arranging marble looking porcelain tiles with some pattern matching.

Mark Rollins
15 dagar sedan
senast redigerad:15 dagar sedan

After sorting my tiles, I found that out of 62 tiles, there were several that could be matched together with minimal or no discontinuity at the edge to form a seamless pair of tiles. Here is a photo of all my tiles with the bottom 2 rows showing matching pairs I discovered. Would it ever make design sense to incorporated these matching pairs into the final wall layout ?

Here's a close up of a couple:


And here is an example of how I could 'randomly' arrange them on a wall portion:

Does this make any design sense or should I go completely random ?

Secondary question. Does it make sense to arrange random tiles such that, like finding animals shapes in the clouds, shapes could appear in the tile veins ? Here's an example, and although random it kind of looks like a humanoid shooting a laser from its hand:

While laying out these tiles in my computer program, my OCD has seriously kicked in, so I need some help :). Thanks all.

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  • chispa
    14 dagar sedan
    Ändrades senast: 14 dagar sedan

    The experienced tile installers I have used usually have the pattern flow in one direction. I prefer that look also.

    Some people like it totally random and that is their personal preference.

    My guest bathroom with marble-look porcelain ... pattern flowing from top left to bottom right.

    Ugh, hate what the phone camera does to the colors! The wall paint is definitely not gray! The tile is a calacatta gold look and has some warm brown/gold veining.


    Kommentarer (11)

    • millworkman
      15 dagar sedan
      Ändrades senast: 15 dagar sedan

      The problem with doing "matching pairs" is what do when you have none left? It will make the non-matching pairs look even worse. I would install all random.

    • Lyn Nielson
      15 dagar sedan

      Yes. match what you can and separate the repeat so it looks more natural.

      I generally try to let a 'line' flow in one direction... like low left to top right or the opposite. Depending on how I see it from entering the room. whatever pleases you.

      I currently have a small guest bath with the line starting at the doorway floor and traveling left, away from the door at an angle (if you can follow that)

    • PRO
      JAN MOYER
      14 dagar sedan
      Ändrades senast: 14 dagar sedan

      These are meant to be randomly installed. They are not meant to yield the appearance of a stone slab, carved out of the earth.

      You are warned not to ask porcelain faux marble anything to mime Mother Nature. It will not.

    • PRO
      Skippack Tile & Stone
      14 dagar sedan

      Don't do it; at best it'll look contrived.

    • PRO
      Minardi
      14 dagar sedan
      Ändrades senast: 14 dagar sedan

      It will look tacky and low end to try to match up veining. Not to mention the installer will charge 10x what was originally estimated to deal with the headache of dealing with an engineer. Setting to any pattern like that, laid out by a homeowner, is an ultra plus labor upgrade.


      It's supposed to look random. Otherwise, go buy a stone slab and use that.

    • Travestine
      14 dagar sedan
      Ändrades senast: 14 dagar sedan

      A directional flow is quite different than trying to connect veining to make it look like a slab.

    • chispa
      14 dagar sedan
      Ändrades senast: 14 dagar sedan

      If you look closely, the tiler does try to match similar veins from tile to tile, but the ultimate goal is a smooth flow across the wall.

      There is no right or wrong, just what is pleasing to the homeowner's eye!

    • John 9a
      14 dagar sedan

      Our eyes/minds are used to certain things. We can't fully focus our attention to EVERY detail so we tend to look for mis-matches. I think that is why random is better.

    • PRO
      Debbi Washburn
      14 dagar sedan

      Is there a picture on the tile companies website showing this tile installed on a floor or wall? That might help

    • Mark Rollins
      Författare
      13 dagar sedan

      Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate all the replies. Going random was advised the most and it makes sense after considering all the comments above.

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