A night on the tiles


So at long last I'm having some work done on the bathroom: replastering and repainting (great flakes coming down), new sash cord, etc. I may even spring for a less unaccommodating light fixture. I have always kept the original 1915 floor tiles because they're original, because someone laid all of those tiny Beechnut-sized white tiles by hand in a herringbone pattern. But they've always been in godawful shape, with ugly concrete patches where someone ripped up the plumbing 40 or 50 years ago. I'm thinking of caving in and laying new tiles.

I want something old-fashioned, to go with the 1915 pedestal sink.

Trouble is, I don't have a car, so it's difficult to look in person.

Nothing that I've found online seems to go with the wall tiles, which are cloudy greyblue, very changeable in different lights.



Set them up against other blue tiles, and they look flat lavender.





You can still get white herringbone tiles, but they would be inauthentic. There are colors, but a trifle hectic and harlequin.  (If only they'd chosen a few of the softer blues!  And you can't pick the wrong ones out like gumdrops.)



Sand-color?  That looks muddy.

What do my discerning readers think? 

Nine



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