Saturday Learnings

We visited CIOT (Lawrence & Dufferin) and found some nice tiles. Our favourite was a faux-slate (porcelain) in a charcoal grey at $4.50/sf. It's Corek 12x01P which is a 12x12 porcelain tile. The shower tile we both liked was Luxor beige 13x20 at $5.75/SF (ALFL13200IK). His total would be around $680 for tiles (both floor and wall, excluding labour).

I also liked a beige floor tile but thought it would look too plain to have both beige on the floor and shower. It was 13x13 Pietra orient IMPP13x04P. My total would be $513 for tiles.

We loved the natural stone (marble, slate, etc.) but realized that we're too lazy to continually treat it and care for it. We're happy to have it installed and of course clean it... but treating it is another story.... As we were leaving there was a nice quartz (caesarstone) called Lagos Blue 4350 that he liked.

Next we visited Taps which was adjacent. We saw a nice sliding shower door 60" 3/8 frameless but there was no price. There were a few nice tubs which were around $439 and 60x32x18 which were a bit too narrow for our spaces.

We had a quick lunch at the nearby Wendy's and then head over to Ginger's. This was a nice showroom but way too pricey. He liked the TOTO toilet, soft close seat but it was skirted (too feminine for him) and it had a narrow inside. He liked the Anna Mirror with shelf that was 51"high x 28"wide for $299.96. It had the same wenge wood as his coffee table (BNT5001001). The chocolate brown and grey towels were nice but at $59 were way too expensive. I think the Bay or Sears would have similar towels for about half the cost. Finally, he liked the wall sconses Roderick double sconse (2191019) in polished chrome or polished nickle for $155. I thought this seemed pricey and that we could find it elsewhere for less. If anyone has any ideas, please let us know! He thought they looked like "light sabres" from Star Wars...