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Please look (pic's) help finding trim tile color (begging)

15 years ago

Ok, first try not to look at my idiots attempt at watermarking.

I could really use some help trying to find a creamy yellow trim tile or some sort of pale yellow tile (not square) to be used as a border between countertop wall and the little brick glass tiles I'm keeping and using. I really want a upper cabinet color there as a transition to the glass tiles. This is a fusion kitchen with a mix of styles but I do want that creamy butter yellow to bring it all together (not bright yellow). The transitional tile material is not as important as the right color.

I have had no luck finding this color now that the style seems to be moving to mellow earth.

Please, I'm begging!!! If you see something could you let me know? I hate being stuck!

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Comments (7)

  • 15 years ago

    These Pratt and Larson tiles are buttery. See Harvest, Garland, and Modern Mosaic field tiles.

    Here is a link that might be useful: click the squares below the pic

  • 15 years ago

    Nancy, I bow down to you *Bowing in gratitude right now*. I think you found the color! I have been on millions of sites, but not the one you posted. I have also sent for some samples from others and it's so weird that all the yellows I got look Green. It's nice that your site has the yellows up with other colors so you can get a idea of the real color.
    Thank you!

  • 15 years ago

    If the yellows you got look green in your space, the issue might be with your lighting. Do you have fluorescent or incandescent lighting? Fluorescent runs a bit bluer, so it could make a pale yellow look green--and if that's the problem, the tile Nancy suggested could suffer the same problem. You might have to choose an "orangier" yellow (more saffron than butter), or a more saturated yellow, to get it to come out the way you want.

    Or it could be that I'm totally off base.

  • 15 years ago

    Oh, and if it is the lighting, you might experiment with paint chips to narrow down what color you need in order to compensate, and THEN start the slower and more expensive process of ordering tiles.

  • 15 years ago

    I know what you are saying cawaps but it's the tiles. I sent for two different colors of a yellow in a recycled glass subway and don't know how they even came up with the yellow related names...although I expected the moniter color to be different I didn't expect a whole new color family , one is light green pea soup and one is dark pea soup. The codes were the same as ordered so there was no mixup.
    The good thing is that the huge tile store that closed near me hasn't really closed at all, they just shrunk to a tiny space further down. I called and they have samples of the pale yellow Pratt & Larson tiles.
    So, some progress and that makes me happy!

  • 15 years ago

    Glad to be of help! I saw some of their tiles in person and thought they were so charming. It was too late for me to use them, but I am glad that I was able to steer you towards them. Hope they work out and don't cost a fortune.

  • 15 years ago

    cawaps, we are on the same page! After dragging my two tone kitchen samples around looking for a countertop and having no luck I finally got out my paints. I knew at that point I wanted two different granite's plus I had a butcher block little island. So I figured one granite should have a tone of the butcher block but with a little butter yellow tone of the upper cabs. I then mixed up a color sample and found the right granite tone the next time out of the gate. It made it so much easier using a paint tone sample than carrying around a mix of stuff. Now I can get away with using a darker granite over on the sink eat-in counter area.