A minor hiccup

I received a call the other day from our tiling supplier - our external floor tile, that was supposed to be used for the al-fresco and porch, has been discontinued and we needed to come in and reselect a new one. I had a feeling this might happen since we chose them in May last year, over a year ago now! Just lucky it wasn't the kitchen splash back feature tile that I built my whole colour scheme around! 

And so, Ben and I had an appointment this morning for the reselection. The original internal and external floor tiles were the 'Torino coffee', basically the same tile but the external had a rough surface for grip. I wasn't sure whether to try and find a tile for the outside that went with the original internal tile but was different enough you could tell it was a different tile, or choose a new matching set for both. It was funny when we were choosing, I made a beeline for the sample of the 'Torino coffee' again without even seeing the name on it! 

In the end, I chose a completely new set. (The lady at the tile place had held off on ordering the internal as well since this is quite common.) All the external ones I liked were too close to the 'Torino coffee' that it looked like I'd tried, unsuccessfully, to match it. 

The new one is called 'City Latte'. It's slightly smaller, a 400mm x 400mm tile, and doesn't have the 'dirty' look to it as the 'Torino coffee' but is basically the same colour. The lady pointed out that it's actually the same colour as the tile we chose for the bathroom/en suite and laundry, only bigger, so will actually flow really nicely! I'm still slightly disappointed we had to change it, but happy enough with the new one. 

'City latte' 400mm x 400mm, external tile:
(slightly dirty display tile)

'City latte' 400mm x 400mm, internal tile:

  

The full colour scheme with the feature mosaic tile, kitchen counter top/cupboard samples and paint colours: