Last week we received our tiles and rented the tile cutter, but found out one third of our tiles were in Almond color, but the rest was in Beige darker color.
The tile store had to replace the order for the right color and my husband finally got the tiles today. In the mean time I had to chose the grout color. From previous experiences I know the grout dries lighter than the samples, at least the non sanded one. When I googled on this, it pulled out numerous threads. I couldn't imagine so many people were agonizing on the grout colors. It is true that it can spoil the overall look significantly.
So, I will be verifying the tiles today, and if everything is ok we will install this coming weekend.
For the grout, the samples look different in the store light. Then the paper samples looked different with the tile. For the tile the best color seemed Mapei Pewter, however the counter and the tiles are in warm brown, natural and cream colors. On my computer screen the best color was Malt matched to the picture of counter and tile. However in the store the sample Malt looked too red. Pewter was really grey, so I decided on Ivory which is sort of grey and tan. Will see how it works. We will only have e few grout lines in 1/16 inch which is very narrow.
When we changed the floor in our powder room i purchased Moisson color 06 it it was too light as compared to our tiles. We just sealed it. It is not a good idea a light color on the floor, but the samples were pretty dark. Will see how Ivory works. In any case there are now grout coloring sealers and also enhancers.
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