The next time I decorate by a colour of the year will be the first time. Don't hold your breath. I have nothing against this particular colour but it doesn't work with all the things I've collected over the years, and I am not about to discard carpets bought after hard bargaining with dubious merchants in Istanbul or Islamabad because they don't "go" with a paint colour that someone voted "colour of the year." In its place, I think the colour would be quite nice (better than this years choices, certainly). It's just that my place isn't the right place for it.

You're welcome Amany. You could also search the Houzz website for "stone walls" for example, there are 1000's of examples of things you might be interested in. All you need to decide on if you seriously want such a wall or something like it whether you build the idea into a house plan so you would have a concrete foundation included to carry the wall, or if you are too far past the idea, in other words your home is built and you would like to replicate the idea in some way, then the tiles could still give you a similar look but it would have joins and when I say tiles it might still be real stone cut thinly so as to mimic a real full thickness stone wall. So below are two photo's from the thousands of photo's under the title "internal stone walls" on Houzz. I'm sure both are real, the first one looks like limestone and the second sandstone. The first one is a tile or as described in the picture a "veneer" and has been attached to a simple brick wall I imagine but the effect is still very nice, this randome sized pattern is called an "ashla pattern" I think just looking at the edges on the second photo it looks like genuine full thickness reall stone but both are still real. You can get more info by clicking on either photo. Good luck. Cheers, Barbara

We have been building our house for over two years now. The supply chain downturn has made it a nightmare. We are camping on the mezzanine floor of our warehouse so it isn't costing us to wait, but if I had rented a property while building we would be in trouble now. I purchased most of our plumbing supplies early in the build so at least those items have not gone up in price, but many others have. We ordered and paid for a cantilever pool awning in February this year, and it was sent in three lots. The last delivery was two weeks ago. I suspect the company was having a hard time getting it out of China, so not their fault. We had quotes for fly screens/security screens that totalled over $25,000. We had to forgo the security screens in favour of fly screens for most of the house. We had a quote for a large aluminium mesh panel to place on the front left corner of the house which was over $25,000 also. The fencing company got an order wrong and we ended up with the wrong colour louvre panels on the front driveway sliding gates, plus the wrong colour for a fence. We have managed to turn it into a positive by keeping the wrong coloured louvre blades, and they will now be put up vertically on the front corner of the house, instead of the aluminium mesh. They are six metres long, but the house is two stories, so all good. We had to keep the gate panels the same, so the wrong colour will have to be exchanged for the right colour. People are still building houses here, and some of them are going up very fast, so I don't understand why ours has taken so long. We have purchased most of the goods locally, but I suppose the suppliers are having trouble getting them from overseas. I am at the point where I am losing interest in this house, which is a shame because it will be a beautiful house when finished.

I just think if everything is jammed in tight it won't seem relaxing and you won't use it. When you consider what you use every day (vanities and shower) I wouldn't compromise them for a maybe-once-a-week-if-most dust catcher like a bath unless you had heaps of space.