Subway Tile

I know a lot of people think about subway tile and how it may look in their home. I thought it would be fun to see a picture of the shower without the grout and then with the shower grouted. The difference is quite stark.
A couple rows of rope liner were added to break it up a bit. Hope this helps in your decision making. By the way you can always get any color of subway tile. There's also different sizes and even shapes. Some of the tiles aren't perfectly square (what we call "rectified"), and there's some that are quite rustic looking.

Countertop Finite

Sorry it took a while to get a photo of the finished countertop but here it is. The owner has moved back in and is looking forward to a new backsplash as soon as we find the right tile!
As you can see the edge profile of the counter is very simple in this case. The choices of profiles are to put on a bullnose edge, a 45 degree chamfer between the two edges, plastic or metal edge profile bars, and the pictured option. The options not used are all more time consuming and expensive. In this case I think the right decision between design, cost, and creativity were used.
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