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what would you think if you walked into a hall with these tiles?

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Igletpiglet · 04/12/2018 09:40

I have a horrible feeling that they would look awful in real life and not jolly ( I have parked them in the 'jolly' section of my decor head). I have loved them for about 2 months now online!!! Please be honest before i make an expensive mistake.

I would put them styled with a cabinet like the pic! except that my 1/2 painted wall would be more a terracotta colour or a very dark blue.
We are a family of 5, 3 kids under 7, and its a north facing hall in a modern house.

www.mandarinstone.com/product/monochrome-decor-porcelain/
THankyou!

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lottiegarbanzo · 04/12/2018 10:50

I realise their 'continental retro' look suggests apartment, rather than house. Which solves the dirt issue, as you'd already have entered the building, wiped feet and walked across some flooring, before entering.

lottiegarbanzo · 04/12/2018 10:51

Also, you must buy a sample one to look at, first. They may look quite different in life and your light, to the way they do in their pictures.

newmumwithquestions · 04/12/2018 11:05

I like them. I love tiles in halls. Personally I think they’d look good with the half blue wall but that’s just because I can’t imagine the terracotta.

MsJuniper · 04/12/2018 11:11

I really like them. Blue wall better than terracotta I think.

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 04/12/2018 11:15

I don't like the randomness. It's doing my head in looking at it! Plus I agree with pps re the greyish effect - they do look dirty. However, I really like actual black and white patterned tiles. I think there are much nicer patterned tiles out there!

3luckystars · 04/12/2018 11:15

I don't like them at all.

But if you do, get them and enjoy them.

SpoonBlender · 04/12/2018 11:19

Too much like Duplo for me.

Xiaoxiong · 04/12/2018 11:22

I absolutely love them but if people are walking straight in from the front door they will take cleaning every day this time of year.

I have a light coloured floor in the kitchen (thank you, landlord) and it is muddy/wet about 20 seconds after it's cleaned, it drives me mad. But maybe it wouldn't bother you as much, so have at it!

PoshPenny · 04/12/2018 11:30

I would worry they'll cost a fortune and look dated in a few years time. If you could fiddle about with the pattern and make it more timeless (or be able to cover that patterned bit with a rug) then fine I personally would go ahead.

festivedramallama · 04/12/2018 11:34

They look like your about to play the adventure game minus the vortex

festivedramallama · 04/12/2018 11:34

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CanSurvive · 04/12/2018 11:36

I like them. You like them, it’s your home and you’re doing it for you to enjoy not a future sale. Go for it. Think dark blue would look better than terracotta

another20 · 04/12/2018 14:01

I love them. Do you?

Don’t dumb down your own taste and vision for your own home for others. They look very classic retro - and quite neutral as well.

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Igletpiglet · 04/12/2018 16:22

You lot rock, Thankyou so much!
So interesting to hear everyone’s opinion. Firstly- perception of colour! I thought background was cream, not grey as someone suggested, so I called mandarin stone to have it out!! The really really lovely lady listened really carefully and sent me some more pics of less styled real life pics. These do seem to pick up on what you lot had realised ( and I hadn’t) , about the grubby look.
Now am a bit less rosy eyed about them.

Also , I was considering them as a humorous take on a Victorian hallway, not being a style guru, and had not computed them being a very mcm or even all that dateable look . I loved the duplo/ vortex comments and also that ge randomness played with people’s heads . ( I think it might actually finish off my OCD husband). I loved their imperfection and quirkiness but think will keep looking as the pics do look a bit... well very... grubby! Thanks again lovelies! FlowersFlowersFlowersFlowersFlowers

what would you think if you walked into a hall with these tiles?
what would you think if you walked into a hall with these tiles?
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Riotingbananas · 04/12/2018 23:25

Ooo yes they look even more grubby in those new photos. I dont mind the design, makes me think of my parents' house back in the 60s/70s, but they kind of mix that look (which was very clean and sharp) with Moroccan rusticness if that makes any sense at all? And I dont think they quite pull it off.

TripTrapTripTrapOverTheBridge · 04/12/2018 23:31

They do look a bit grubby. However, the only thing that horrified me was you wanting terracotta walls! Just no. Not ever..EVER I tell youShock

villainousbroodmare · 04/12/2018 23:42

I love them but they do look grimy. And a clean black and white look would not be as charming.

3luckystars · 05/12/2018 07:48

They look really dirty in the newest photos!

SoupDragon · 05/12/2018 07:50

They look so grubby in those newer photos! That would bug me (and I'm not houseproud)

NoSpend19 · 05/12/2018 07:52

Really don't like them. Very 1960s/playschool. I feel like we're going to look through the triangle window today.

Combined with early 1990s terracotta walls. Definitely not.

lottiegarbanzo · 05/12/2018 10:05

I think the 'grubbiness' looks like natural marble. So they're a mixture of natural and modernist. They look really good in that plinth picture.

Bluesheep8 · 09/12/2018 08:05

They would drive me mad. And I'm a pretty chaotic person. They set me on edge, sorry.

claraschu · 09/12/2018 08:13

I really like them. Love the humorous but old feeling, and I even like the not overly clean look, (as I hate things that look squeaky clean and new). They look aged but fresh to me--- both elegant, and tongue-in-cheek at once, which is pretty cool.

AwkwardSquad · 09/12/2018 08:18

I quite like them but I think in real life they would irritate the life out of me. My brain would automatically keep trying to put them in order, like some sort of unsolvable brain-training exercise. I’m exhausted at the mere thought of it Grin

Roystonv · 09/12/2018 08:25

I can understand the hold they have over you so I would fit them in a smaller, not as obvious room say utility or downstairs loo. You can then make your statement, get them out of your system, stand and admire them when you want a fix but you don't have the horror of getting it wrong in a huge obvious space.