Tile Quest!!

For the past several months, I have searched high & low for a tile blend that would give me the look & feel in this Kohler ad from a few years ago:

The blend above has a healthy dose of Aqua & a but of grey thrown in.

I've looked high & low & even resorted to calling Kohler, who scrounged & also could not figure out where they got the tile or where to send me (though they did make a valiant effort!).

So, since these aqua tones do not appear to be any longer available in glass mosaics, we will be going with more of a blue tone, instead, but a similar look & feel - tile all the way up the walls, rounded edge where the floor meets the walls, etc.

Here's where we ended-up with a custom blend.  We're happy with it - given that it appears that it is certainly going to be the closest we're going to be able to get:

It's got some shimmer pieces to it, a bit of grey & a lot of varying shades of blue - we think it'll look GREAT!!

It's about time we got back to some house stuff, so here are a few things we've picked-up over the past couple years for the house.

A friend in the design business saw this flooring on Craigslist for a STEAL & it seemed like a GREAT fit for our bar - since it's flooring made from old WHISKEY BARRELS.

Sadly, it no longer smells like Whiskey Barrels ;)

Next-up, we found this old Ship's Door at a great ships salvage place down in Galveston & thought it was PERFECT for the door from the Bar to the Pool.

We'll have to add a little height to it during the build - but Authentic & very cool for way cheaper than we would have paid to have one custom built, too - YAY!

And we've got something FUN planned for this, which we picked-up at a Flea Market a while back:

And.....finally.....neither of us can say that we EVER thought we'd have a Mailbox in a bucket.  But, well, such is life in rural Texas.  Hook 'em, baby!!!

Oh - and even without a house on our land, we can still do a bit of this to keep ourselves entertained ;)