Tiling & Taming my Inspiration

There has been a lot of progress on the house since my last post. There also has been a lot going on in our non-remodeling lives! Riley and I were out of town for about a week and now we are sitting for a friend's dog so finding the time to post has been a little difficult.

With the progress on the house, comes more decisions. The exterior is close to complete now (photos to come next) and the focus is turning to the interior. Time to choose tile, wood finishes, and paint colors. So far I have collected a TON of inspiration. Now I have to wade through it and narrow down my selections. The biggest challenge is choosing the permanent finishes for the bathrooms. I really love color and combining color in many ways, but I also like to change colors within a room often. This poses a problem when picking out tile and flooring. My instinct is to go all white everywhere so I can paint walls and bring color in with accents. I just fear that it will be incredibly dull and sterile looking. My current solution is to stay in the whites/creams/light grays and combine many different textures with in that palette. I'm loving carrera marble in different patterns. Particularly the textures that mimic fabrics like herringbones & modified basketweaves.

I have also been entertaining the idea of using wall paper in the powder bath and possibly in parts of one of the bedrooms. I stumbled across Walnut Wallpaper's website and it got my wheels turning. How could I not consider wallpaper by Marimekko and Vivian Westwood (two of my favorite textile designers)?

The possibilities are endless, should be interesting to see where we land!