u/Beansmom23

Hi everyone! I’m about to embark on a large home renovation project and I’m in love with this tile pattern I saw on the floor of a restaurant a year ago. I literally took a picture and told my friend I was with “when I redo my house I’m going to put this tile in it”…here’s the problem. I can’t find it. Not only can I not find the pattern and colors in a preset but I can’t even find a yellow or navy that I really like as a single sheet that I could combine with white hex to create the pattern myself. I’ve gotten close but there’s always been something…either the color isn’t the right shade or the hex tiles are too big or it’s porcelain finish instead of a matte.

I’m seriously considering just doing all 1 inch white hex tiles and then attempting to paint some to match the pattern. I know this is probably a terrible idea but I’m not ready to give up my tile dreams yet! Does anyone have any advice for painting small hex floor tile?

I don’t know if anyone will remember but a few weeks back I posted about finding my dream quartzite but it wasn’t available. Since then I’ve been looking high and low to find something similar. And while there have been some close contenders, nothing I found had the depth of color and movement that I loved on those other slabs.

Well today I gave up the search and ended up locking down two slabs of “Aqua Cristallo”. I actually was inspired by some of the recent posts here that showed Cristallo variants that looked really nice. So thanks you guys! I’d love to know what you all think of what I ended up with!

And, I’m still holding out hope that I’m going to get that paradise crystal after all. The fabricator is hoping to have a little bit of extra that I’m going to try to have turned into a coffee table for my living room! So fingers crossed that comes through. Thanks to all of you for the suggestions of similar materials!

It’s a quartzite and it has the perfect amounts of green, blue, and cream. But it’s all going to another job. Does anyone else have any recommendations for similar slabs? It would be for an accent island, not a full kitchen so we don’t need much. But after seeing this one it’s like I can’t even consider anything else. I need it in my life. The supplier said I might be able to find another piece with a different supplier but I haven’t had any luck.