Shansen9125

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Hi! I’ve been lurking the threads for weeks now looking for the perfect tile for my spillway and this is my first time posting! We’re currently under construction and I need to submit my tile choices tomorrow and have been going back and forth for the spillway glass tile. My spa is going to be very large and the focal point, I’m doing the exterior with the Carrara grigio gray porcelain veneer and want to add an extremely iridescent pinky, purple, turquoise, unicorn like glass tile 1x2 for the spillway. I want to make sure the tile matches the waterline tile but can’t decide what would look best. I’m between aquabella sh1291, lightwaves (can’t decide between blue or aquamarine) Aquabella constellations Aquarius and aquabella crystal. I’ve heard @kimkats the bling queen so any advice for the tile choice and grout is welcome and very much appreciated! Thank you all 😊
 

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Well hello there!! Nice to meet you! Do you have any samples of each tile in hand?

I LOVE these in equal measure:


Then I like this one but not quite as much as the above:

I don't care for these are much as they don't seem to BLING as much:


Now lets talk about my first question. The color of the mortar can change the color and shine of glass tile. None are wrong. It is just personal preference. White, off white, light gray to dark gray. See if you can get your hands on each tile and take it outside with some sample paint cards in those colors. Sit the tile on each color where your pool is going to be. Stand back and see what you like.

Now on to grout color-white will make each tile pop out on it's own. Medium to dark gray will help them blend all together. Both are very pretty. AGAIN it is personal preference. Your pool builder should have some grout sticks to play with for color picking. Take them outside with the tiles and see what you like best.

Here is what popped up when I typed in gray grout with blue glass tile:

and here is white grout:

While this is not one of your tile picks it really shows the difference the grout color makes:
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LOVE your water line tile! One thing I want you to do is dig through the boxes of tile.........say what??? Yeah take them all out. With tile that has a "pattern" some will be prettier than others. Pick out the very pretty ones to have them placed where your eyes will fall as you walk out to the pool. There may be some that are "ugly". Those can be set aside to used for cut pieces.

Good luck and let me know what you end up with!! :hug:

Kim :kim:
 
Well hello there!! Nice to meet you! Do you have any samples of each tile in hand?

I LOVE these in equal measure:


Then I like this one but not quite as much as the above:

I don't care for these are much as they don't seem to BLING as much:


Now lets talk about my first question. The color of the mortar can change the color and shine of glass tile. None are wrong. It is just personal preference. White, off white, light gray to dark gray. See if you can get your hands on each tile and take it outside with some sample paint cards in those colors. Sit the tile on each color where your pool is going to be. Stand back and see what you like.

Now on to grout color-white will make each tile pop out on it's own. Medium to dark gray will help them blend all together. Both are very pretty. AGAIN it is personal preference. Your pool builder should have some grout sticks to play with for color picking. Take them outside with the tiles and see what you like best.

Here is what popped up when I typed in gray grout with blue glass tile:

and here is white grout:

While this is not one of your tile picks it really shows the difference the grout color makes:
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LOVE your water line tile! One thing I want you to do is dig through the boxes of tile.........say what??? Yeah take them all out. With tile that has a "pattern" some will be prettier than others. Pick out the very pretty ones to have them placed where your eyes will fall as you walk out to the pool. There may be some that are "ugly". Those can be set aside to used for cut pieces.

Good luck and let me know what you end up with!! :hug:

Kim :kim:
Thank you!! The lightwaves are my top fav but they are about $10+ more per sq ft so I have some back ups in case they don’t make sense financially.
 
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