Help. I'm one tile short in my bathroom reno
Michelle Mahon
7 years ago
I'm keen to hear from anyone with a solution to this problem. I have a 'nib' feature wall in my bathroom which is just one tile short. I'm using Infinity Tempest Koi tiles - they're expensive and they're only made to order in batches. I don't want to have to pay for another 6 tiles and wait 2-3 weeks for them to arrive (also the batch might have variations), so I need to come up with a creative solution that doesn't involve cutting the wall down a little (already explored and discarded that one). These tiles are 300x600. I am approx two inches (x 1m approx) shy along the top or the bottom of the nib wall. We could use a cut down of our other main wall tile (which is 300x600 in a milky white) and run this along the top or bottom but I think this might look odd. Ideas?
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7 years agoMaybe a metalic fishscale border? These are single meshed tiles about 50mm. We can order these in for you, where abouts are you?
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