Are these tiles nice?

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Hello, I’ve had some really helpful advice on here countless times so back again! I’ve finally I think decided on a tile pattern for our hallway but I just want to check is it nice? It’s an Edwardian terrace house so I’m trying to go with something that could be original, it’s going to cost about £3500 in total as it’s 12m2 so I reeeeally don’t want to mess up and I want to add at least that amount of the value to the house. It’s like the pattern in the photo but with slightly smaller border tiles and black around the edge. Also not sure on the colour tiles for the border yet but I think black and dark grey. Please let me know thoughts, if you think you’d change anything or if you think it would really appeal to you as a buyer? Thanks!!

Or maybe I should do dark grey around the edge like the photo?

The photo looks black, white and beige but the pictures look black, white and light grey?

Honestly I’m not keen on the grey. Prefer photo 1 the best

I prefer the 3 tones of the photo. Don’t forget grey will go out of fashion. Choose something that will last beyond that.

Yes sorry I was just doing the design on pages haha and couldn’t be bothered to find the actual colours, so the colours will be the colours of the actual hallway

Basically my design on the pictures is just to show the black around the edge, so do you think that would look ok? Or grey around the edge like this or photo 1

There's something that doesn't please the eye here but I can't pin down what it is.. I'm not living the grey tiles in the design. It might look better with just black
Alternatively, look for some genuine Edwardian chequerboard flooring and copy that.

I spend some off my day drawing Victorian Floors for Customers, my Company manufactures Cathedral Range Floors. This one looks like it's made by Original Style or Topcer which comes in single pieces and would cost a fortune to put down by a tiler. It's very expensive for such a plan design. Have you tried Topps Tiles they have much better range and it's assembled on a mesh, so it would be cheaper to lay, and possibly cheaper.

They’re very nice, but they won’t add value to your house at all.

Those tiles say Victorian but you say your house is Edwardian. They look to me a bit of a mash-up between the two. The bigger central squares don’t look intricate enough to be Victorian - and the colours aren’t correct - but the general style is not right as Edwardian. If you’re going to use a modern colour palette, I wouldn’t use that pattern.

I don't think you can quantify how much value it would add to your house. It's personal taste not a straightforward improvement like a new boiler or extra floor space. I think the two shades of grey squares in the middle are difficult to look at like an optical illusion.

Thanks @Furloughedpissedoff yes that’s right they’re original style, the £3500 is including original style tiles and the fitting , I looked at the mesh assembled border and they were double the price of original style , and my tiler is happy to lay without the mesh. The large square tiles were cheaper but didn’t come in colours other than black and white, and I really like the original style colours. @Teeshirt what kind of thing would you do? The colours are quite warm grey if it helps, the medium grey is kind of browny grey , I deff havent represented the colours well on the diagram! I think I like the decision because with the 3 colours, it sort of hints at a more intricate pattern? Originally was going to go black and white completely but partner doesn’t like the huge contrast , then I decided I really liked the three colours

Tiles won't add value to your house. The idea that decorating to your personal taste would add quantifiable value is a bit naive.

Choose what you like, but if you're aiming for it to look like it could be original, you'll need to use an Edwardian colour palette.

I'm not super keen tbh. Personally I don't like Victorian/Edwardian "style" tiles unless they are proper reproduction with everything correct, and ideally the same pattern as the house would have originally had. (We couldn't afford to do that so are going with modern tiles instead). Having said that, obviously go with what you like - you'd probably hate our tiles!

Sorry, looking more closely the 2nd and 3rd pictures look much better. I'd go for black around the edge and black border tiles (did they use much dark grey in Edwardian hallways? Our house is Victorian so I've only really looked at those). To my eye dark grey seems a bit 2010.

And you obviously need to have no grout showing etc