And more floors!

So after floating the floors, we were ready for tile in the master bathroom.  We considered a number of choices ranging from gray to taupe to black.  You can see the charcoal color of the shower base in these pictures so it was important that they look good together.

We finally settled on my original choice of the black granite.  It is a really beautiful stone and feels really good on your feet.  It is honed instead of polished so it won't be too slippery like some of the polished marble choices we considered.  It was definitely not the cheapest tile but I think I will like it for a LONG time.

There's not much to discuss, this was a fairly easy tile job.  The width of the room was exactly five tiles wide so I didn't even have a lot of cutting to do.


I was a little worried that the granite would be difficult to cut since it tends to be a dense stone.  But actually, it cut easier than some porcelain.



One helpful tip I followed was about the way the tiles were staggered.  My normal instinct is to use a brick pattern.  However, since this tile is 12 x 24 inch, they are large tiles.  Therefore there tends to be some "cupping" where the middle is higher than the ends.  Match up the ends on one row with the middle on the next row create "lippage" problems.  To combat this, the recommendation is to stagger in thirds.  Since there is so much movement in these tiles, it is not very noticeable, but I think the trick helped.



I used a charcoal unsanded colored grout since the seams were very thin.  Done and done!