HELP!!!! I have a challenge for you! I need a random pattern for my kitchen tiles.

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I have just spent the last 2 and a half hrs trying to get a random pattern with my tiles. And I cant!

I am useless at this!

4 tiles

Tile 1 is black

Tile 2 is dark grey

Tile 3 is light grey

Tile 4 is an off white

Anyone have any ideas?

I didn't want them to go diagonally! (fussy I know)

Pattern would be good if it was 5 tiles down!

anyone......

please...........

long story with these tiles........

you could be saving the day....... literally!

4,3,2,1 then carry that pattern on, so the colours gradually increase iyswim??
or 3 1 4 2
actually im not really sure, just thought i would answer your thread!! lol
so not much help really sorry

oh bless you!

Thanks, I will try that, but was des trying not to have a routine as such. Just want a random pattern and some how I just cant get one, every time it just ends up as one!

Right - from what I know about random patterns that we use for paving in urban areas (such as town squares, etc), the key is that random is not a pattern. You need to work on these percentages - tile 1 - 60%, tile 2 - 40%, tile 3 - 40% and tile 4 - 20% = these do not add upto 100% as you would then end up with a pattern! The percentages would depend upon which tile you would like to be the predominant colour!

I think you should use Excel for this - mark out the area you want by changing the column and row widths until you get squares, and then colour four squares with the four tile colours.

Kind of randomly fill in some squares with a colour. At no point was there to be more than 3 tiles of the same colour adjoining - and then not in a row or column, only in an L, and every column and every row had to have more or less the same number of each colour tile. Finally, any regular pattern repeating (like 4 tiles of one colour surrounding another tile, like a little flower) was to be avoided. I think the best way would be to select, say, 20 of each colour tile and set them in piles, and make sure each pile became depleted at the same rate. End result looked good, though. Be prepared for a headache.

Good luck, as I think it will be tricky!!!

i dont think with 4 tiles you could have a random pattern, especially ones so close in colour.
i actually think the 2nd variation of 3 1 4 2 could work rather well,
hope you get it sorted.
xx

Get a piece of paper and draw heaps of squares (est how many you'll need to tile area), then get four pencils and shade in randomly without thinking about it too much.
I did this and I only has two different colours of tiles to work with (although the type of tiles they are means that no two tiles are exactly the same (iyswim).

I did this to illustrate that you can actually get a random pattern with only two colours and my builder didn't get what I was saying and thought I would have to have a chequered pattern which I didn't want at all. Worked for me.

andyrobo, wow!!

sound like maths to me!!

but i agree end result could be rather lovely.

feel quite embarrassed by my rather crap suggestion!!! lol

Ah, thank you andyrobo.

Oh dear, I will have to go back to the tile shop and ask really sweetly to change a few tiles! At the moment I have 6 boxes of each tiles and that is probably wher I am going wrong!

Now I have to decide which colour I want as my dominant colour! Oh crumbs, it gets harder and harder!

Do you have a child? Put all your tiles in one box, mixing them up a bit as you go, then ask your child to hand them up to you and then just stick them on the wall.
I've just done my kitchen in a very random style, but i got the kids to make pictures out of the tiles, stuck them on the wall, then tiled aroudn them. We have a little robot, some flowers, the children's initials and some other bits and pieces. It's fun .

Aero, that is what I have been doing for the last couple of hrs, I just cant do random, I always fall into some kind of pattern!

in gardening one throws bulbs onto lawn and plants them accordingly. do that with some counters or similar on a bit of squared paper

i would go insane with a random / non random thingy, why can't you just have some tiles plonked on? how is it random if you have arranged it in advance?

I think you'll find this interesting...

Funny you should say that Girders, I do! I have just joked to DH and said that if I cant do this then I will DD a few tiles to play with! LOL

Does this help?

Oh thank you so much! Off to try and do some tile counting and matching!

Good luck!