Levarne Sobotker....although the tiles are beautiful you are very brave having those very glossy tiles throughout your whole house...from experience of having glossy tiles - they show every mark and really need cleaning multiple times a week - and you can't just mop very glossy tiles because the water marks show when they dry on - so you have to do small areas at a time and dry as you go - it will take an age to clean them if you have them through a whole house. We have gloss tiles in a couple of bathrooms and I would never choose them again. They are also very slippery when wet.

Hi Lucy Have you thought of using the same colour on the skirting boards and architraves but doing them in high gloss? That way they will look slightly lighter than the wall due to the light reflection off the gloss.

The skirting boards in pic are a meranti type colour as are the doors and architraves. Hubby does NOT want to change the colour or even consider white. Besides carpet what type of flooring could we lay that would still tie in well?

I did mine in plywood and since we put up the panels ourselves the alignment was ... heroically attempted. My solution (NB: I’m a little unorthodox) was 6” high skirting boards painted in a mint green (think old-fashioned ice-cream truck) which I also used on the wooden surrounds for the aluminium windows, which are near-black aluminium called Ironsand. It works with my extremely-NOT-minimalist eclectic style, but it certainly wouldn’t work for everyone. Note: there are major advantages to plywood that actually do make it a cost-effective choice over plasterboard. For one, you only need to choose plywood with 1 good or excellent face, as the other is never seen; second is while you save on a plasterer, you also save on 3+ coats of paint (though you can always paint/stain/whitewash it later if you want); third is that every off-cut and leftover sheet can be used for furniture, shelving, all kinds of things — I built my entire wardrobe out of it by laminating sheets and threading a galvanised pipe through for the rail. On top of that, hanging pictures and light fittings is super easy (no anchors required, just nail anywhere) and it’s almost indestructible compared with plasterboard. I may be a bit of a fan, lol. Just, whatever you do, don’t spill red ink on it — unless you like the old slaughterhouse look. 🤷‍♂️