I had to study the photo to see the concern. I know you paid for the job to be done right, but perhaps you can get a credit for something else and live with it for awhile. Pretty tile selection.

Agree with nightowl BUT if it will bug you forever get it changed.

I agree as my initial thought was to forget it and live with it. I didn't even notice it at first. But then I've had others insist I fix it and have it done right. I'm on the fence.

For pete's sake, you hired a "professional" to give you a simple offset pattern. You're right ... it is a really dumb mistake. And not one that a professional would make and then leave you to "live with it."

I see it in the enlargement, but I can't even find the mistake in the overall picture, so I'd probably live with it, but since you can see it, and it will bug you every day, I'd get it redone.

Let him take a row out and off-set it, on his dime. It's barely noticeable from a distance (I can tell where it is only because you told us), and one off-set row will be even less so.

You can't just take out one row and place it offset or you'll just be right back where you started from. I agree with jellytoast above. You paid a professional to do a professional job. This is an amateur's mistake. I'd make him replace the entire sheet above across the whole section and he can pay for the new tile, too. Ugh!

Agree with jellytoast and ck_squared. You cannot just remove one row. It will just repeat the same mistake above. I would have them remove everything above and do it correctly. His suggestion to just move it over slightly will still not be correct and still look off.

Oh....right....yeah...it's a redo

Well, from a distance what's noticeable are primarily the two dark tiles that are exactly on top of each other, making it look like a dark square. If the upper row were offset by about 1/4 or 1/3 tile length it might help. Obviously, offset by half wouldn't work because then the next line is right on top.

Here is it with the top row slightly off-set, and the offending dark tile replaced with a grayish one. Let's just hope the guy is a better tiler than I am a photoshopper:

Thank you all for the input. And thank you MamaGoose for taking the time to photoshop - if I could hug you I would! That is awesome! That's exactly what I was thinking of doing even though it wouldn't be exactly right.

Even if no one else noticed it would drive me nuts. If they offered a total refund I might find a really tall vase or put the coffee maker there.

Even though most wouldn't notice that, I certainly would. And what would tick me off enough to make me say rip out all of the flipped tile squares, not just the few rows, is the fact that he probably came to grout it the next day and knew he screwed up. Then grouted anyways and hoped you wouldn't notice or say anything. I wouldn't let that fly.

That's what troubles me. How could he not notice that at least when it came time to grout. He needs to learn a lesson. I am not very sympathetic because we are going thru a bathroom reno right now and I swear they are all buffoons. No offense to handymen and contractors who are good, but there are way too many out there who are not.

I noticed it as soon as I looked at the pic. If it were mine, I would tell them to fix it cause it would drive me crazy. :-/

Add one vote for a complete re-do.

You could try a decorative contrasting inlay tile.