To ask your advice on tiles?

[knittedbreast]

We have an open fire and around the red brick chimney (its a nice one) there is no surround.

Dp is making a surround from wood and then covering it with tiles.

I would love hot pink and gold mosiac tiles but cant find them anywhere, i did find these though, which do you prefer?

mydecomarketplace.com/p/hammered-pearl-brown-and-gold-mix/

www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod4605/section1243/Hammered-Pearl-Pink-Mosaic.html

Alt, do you know where i could get hot pink and gold tiles? jewel like colours?

oh come on, my dp wont discuss it with me....

Honest opinion. I dont think the mosaic tiles would look right around a fire, they are more suited to a bathroom or kitchen wall.

I can't see the first one but I hate the second if that's any help?

Redbrick and pink doesn't work for me

how about these

Our neighbours have sort of mosaic tiles around their (original 1930s) fireplace and it looks okay.

The second ones (can't see the first ones) are hideous though and would be better suited to a public convenience.

I'm trying to find something similar to what my neighbours have and this is closest I can find for the minute - www.mosaiccompany.co.uk/rubi-25-x-25-mm-metallic-red-glass-mosaic-tiles-1274-p.asp Theirs are more sort of matt and goldyish tho.

squeaky, they are very old fashioned (im only 25), i can see they would like nice in a massive period house but this is a small vistorian terracse, with no fireplace!

i wanted mosiac glass tiles to be completly different from the house, i appreciate not everyone will like my taste. but this is the woman how is having a small tree trunk sawn in half as her bannister....

The first tiles again www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod8416/section949/Hammered-Pearl-Brown-and-Gold-Mix.html?base=1&utm_source=mydeco&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=mydeco

also just realsied i havent been very clear. my dp is making a thing to go around the chimney, where the ash might fall to protect the carpet. its going to be made of wood then covered in decorative tiles, so wont go on the chimney breast at all

em, they were the closest to hot pink i could find :(

em, much better! I could mix the red and gold tiles together....i wonder if anywhere near me has those....

still not quite right thoug, i always assumed tiles would come in mad colours but obv not

I think the tiles you're finding are really kitchen tiles when what you want is proper glass tiles that you could use for decorative stuff. Would you be willing to do the mosaic yourself with individual glass tiles? It would look nicer... If so try googling for glass mosaic tiles and you should find craft websites with nice ones that will look a bit more, um, bohemian and authentic. The stuff you've linked to is too utility IMO.

thats what ive been looking for, il try that thank you :)

I would love to do it myslef, its a shame its a rented house as i made some really pretty things :(

Like this: www.mosaic-direct.com/

I might not be 26, but I do have a designers eye & can tune that into any style/age range & I also like things to be quirky & unusual, so to me your banister sounds lovely

BUT, that said I'm afraid I have to agree, the mosaic tiles especially in pink & gold would be hideous with a brick fireplace - with something as strong & busy as brick, you need to stick with something simple, clean & probably dark or light rather than mid tone - we have black slate in our brick fire place & it works beautifully

I also wonder if your landlord knows what you are doing? - you might well find they won't be happy & might be coming after you with a repair bill, honestly, you might want to be quirky, which is fine, but not when its someone elses property

Thinking on it - have you made a story board or any other kind of visual prop to help you & your partner see how its going to actually look when finished?? - if not I'd highly recommend you do that - maybe take a photo of the fireplace & glue some printed off cut out tiles in place on it to see for yourself how its going to end up

none of what im doing effects the house. the wooden surround is not attached to the floor ring but held in place by 2 screws into the skirting board that can easily be removed after we have left, leaving the carpet untouched.

Thing is i hate clean boring colours, ive rented all my adult life and am sick of white washed walls etc... also , i dont care if it looks shit, il just do it again with other colours!

we were going to move to another house which had almost a small porch or over head bit and the door was further back, i was going to tile the entire walls and ceiling of the porch typed bit (it had beautiful curves) in hot pink and jewel purples with mirrors in. but it went before we could afford it.

Do you mean gold and pink like this?

kladdakka, oooooohh that might be the closest ive seen.....

where did you find that?

see i like that but the pinks too pale and there isnt enough gold, also i dont think they would suit it. but i do like them

maybe i could make my own tiles? just getting rediculous now....

Google image search for 'pink and gold tiles'

just spoke to dp.

hes dropped the wood idea and has found a kitchen unit top instead.

sigh

Is that allowed? I thought fire surrounds and hearths and stuff have to meet a certain legal spec.

We have a yellow stock fireplace at home and a sleeper for a mantlepiece. Tiles would spoil it, cant you just leave it at the wood!

Oh sorry, just seen the no wood post. A kitchen unit top......oh dear! Can you talk him out of it?

kladd, there is a surround already present but its hidden uner carpet and leaves a lump. we will create another surround to the same size as the original one under tha carpet (you can clearly feel/see it)

the manitence guys are here now drilling this awful white redwood thin bannister shit into the wall on the stairs. we decided to get them to do it so they make the holes, we replace thier shit bannister with my tree.

just to cover us.

betty- i know. a kitchen top. my dp also made a stair gate out of a kitchen cabinet door he foudn by the road once.

Knitted..bless him, at least he's having a go, it'll probably look fine!

One of my friends DH is into stuff like that...he made a shed out of old pallets and we all took the piss out of him mercilessly but when it was done, it looked fab and I was quite jealous

He loves making tit boxes too