Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 May 12, 2011 9:27 pm As the title says would you lay different tiles in your kitchen to what is in the rest of the house? We built 6 years ago and had the same tiles throughout the house (apart from bathrooms) We want to redo our kitchen which will involve moving our bench therefore we need to lay more tiles. The tiles we bought were the last produced for that pattern and we only have 9 spares which will not be enough to cover the area which will need to be tiled. So...do you think it would look odd with the kitchen in a different tile to an open plan living, games and kitchen area? Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 2May 12, 2011 9:43 pm Personally i wouldnt lay different tiles. Im having the same tiles throughout the whole open plan inc the kitchen, maybe you would lay a border of tiles to seperate the tiles. Our Acreage Build The Lakeview Lodge - Beechwood Homes 01/04/10 YES 2010 - Deposit paid 23/09 - PCI CANCELLED 28/09 - PCI - will it happen.-18 months later 07/10/11 - ITS OURS..WOOHOO Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of house 4May 13, 2011 10:27 am Can you find another retailer that may have those same 'last' tiles? Sorry if you have already tried that. I think it would look strange too.. But perhaps you could find another tile that either matches or perhaps a 'stand out' tile? Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 5May 13, 2011 10:36 am switch to floorboards Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 6May 13, 2011 10:37 am To be perfectly honest, it will look like what it is... a remodel, an alteration. The only way around it that I can think of is to have a step up into the kitchen and have the raised part be floorboards. I've seen it done in display homes and it looks pretty good. Then it will look like it was a purposeful design rather than a mismatch. I can't copy the pic here... but go into the Porter Davis style finder and go to "Safari Brown". The first pic shows what I mean. http://www.porterdavis.com.au/#/styles I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 7May 13, 2011 1:05 pm Thanks for your replies. I think it would look odd too and so does hubby just thought I would see what others thought as well. We have another option which is pulling up the tiles in our back bedroom (which is the same as throughout the house and kitchen) trying to keep at least 7 whole and relay them in the kitchen. Has anyone pulled up tiles and relayed successfully before? Either that or we can go searching to see if there are any more tiles the same or very similar. Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of house 8May 13, 2011 1:54 pm I don't know how well you could 'pull' a tile up. They are usually stuck down fairly well the the ground and usually come up in pieces! Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 9May 13, 2011 2:23 pm Cooped07 I don't know how well you could 'pull' a tile up. They are usually stuck down fairly well the the ground and usually come up in pieces! I thought this too. I don't think the different tiles will look too bad. It might look like it's been re-modelled or whatever, but I don't think that's such a bad thing. The floorboards are a great idea but if they end up being not doable, make the tiles a contrasting colour to the ones already there. don't try to match them if they are not an exact match - that wouldn't work IMO. "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 10May 13, 2011 3:11 pm Hi nicmac We recently pulled up tiles in our kitchen and needed to save a number for a spot in the laundry that needed them. It was hard work and we only got them up because we have a timber floor on stumps that the AC sheet was nailed to but not glued to the floor. We were able to pull sections of the tiles up 3 or 4 at a time, with the AC sheet still glued to it. I then had to chisel the AC sheet and the glue off the tile, for which I used a cheap paint scrapper, a hammer and a lot of hard work to clean them up, using the scraper as a wedge/chisel. If you have a slab I am not sure if they use AC sheet or not, and I am pretty sure it would be hard to get the tiles off in one piece if they didn't. We broke heaps even doing it the way we did, but in the end we got enough for what we needed - which was all we wanted to achieve. Good luck! Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 11May 17, 2011 7:33 pm I wouldn't try pulling the tiles up from anywhere else and transplanting them. You'll end up with more mess and you won't be able to save many tiles without breaking them. We recently pulled up the tiles in our laundry and the only way to do it was with a mini jack hammer tool which smashes them into pieces. Even though we weren't trying to save tiles we did manage to pull out 5 or 6 tiles that were completely in tact. Even if you are able to save a few tiles here and there, as the previous poster mentions, you would have to carefully scrape the hard adhesive and grout off them in order to transplant them. I wouldn't even know what sort of product would get that stuff off the tiles (maybe some sort of acid bath?!) Then if you don't have enough tiles from the tiles that you took from the bedroom (and you would be ripping up more than 7 tiles from the bedroom because you definitely won't be able to keep in tact each and very tile that you pull up), you could end up in a worse position than what you started (ie with the bedrooms without tiles and perhaps still not enough tiles to complete your kitchen with!). It sounds like you are in a bit of a sticky dilemma. I like the idea of the floor boards that has been mentioned above. Hope you are able to work around the problem somehow. My blogs: http://www.movingtotasmania.com.au - a resource for those considering relocating to Tasmania http://www.sarahandtim.com - my daily life and renovation blog This is one of the reasons I decided to go overseas for my double glazed windows. As the builder indicated, he's worked on many upmarket builds, these were the most well… 13 19249 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! 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