Friends kindly gave us tiles left over from their bathroom renovation project, and we have spent some time trying to work out whether we had enough, or would need to buy more. We also spend a lot of time trying to work out what colour to put on the bathroom walls, to offset the very dark grey colour of the tiles.
After much cogitation, we decide the gifted tiles are just too dark, so we head off to National Tiles in Port Melbourne to look for alternatives. After much to-ing and fro-ing we settle on a paler grey tile described as slate, and we find two boxes in the tile liquidation area which significantly reduces the overall cost, as we only need four boxes altogether.
Armed with the tile we then go a-Bunning to select the polymer wall panels for the shower sides. We've been in contact with the manufacturers, who tell us that we can get the sheets at Bunnings and also that we can have any Dulux colour as a custom colour. Peter is given to understand that there is a three-day turnaround between the order and receiving the sheets. In Bunnings we spend about an hour with our tile looking at various colour chips, and sample panels. When we finally settle and go to order, we discover that we can't be guaranteed to receive a custom coloured panel this side of Christmas. Three days it appears, was only for standard colours. So we start looking at standard panels and find a splash-back sized panel in a colour called called Silver Ghost, that we think will do, but it turns out not to be in any of the lists of standard colours and no one is sure whether we can get it in bathroom wall sizes. Finally we give up and settle on a metallic silver called Platinum, because at least that is available and will come early next week. We just hope it looks OK. Neither of us liked the idea of a metallic finish much, but perhaps a bit of shiny reflection in a small dark room will be a Good Thing.
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