Am I going to hate my tile?

[Jday92591]

Looking for an opinion(s). I am using stacked stone on my raised bond beam. I was considering bring the stone into the water but understand the scum line would be difficult to clean…..soooooo I found a 6x6 tile made from the same stone. It appears to be some what rough but at least it is flat. How tough will be to keep clean? I am looking for the natural blended look instead of a contrasting tile that will stand out.

 

[Melt In The Sun]

Looks pretty good to me. Do you have physical samples you can put next to each other and check?

 

[Nightmare]

You should be able to find some porcelain that is a close color match, it would be much easier to keep clean (if that photo above is a rough texture natural stone). Keep in mind that you only see a couple inches of tile above the water line.

I know how you feel on the picking finish items. I guess I expected someone to whip out a color wheel and talk about contrasting / complementing colors and such. We ended up in a huge display room with about 1000-2000 samples on the wall ... The photos in the book didn't help much either, most of them were just too plain or too crazy.

 

[Lershac]

You will definitely positively maybe possibly have a love hate relationship with your tile. Depending on the phase of the moon.