I honestly cannot notice a white area.

Wonder if under cabinet lighting would alleviate the shadows? I don’t see the variation you describe.

here is the other problem area obviously I zoomed in a bit but honestly looks SO much more white then the rest of the wall. It all looked the same until about late last night curing a bit longer.

I have noticed this is often the way "random" turns out. One can shuffle the tiles for hours and what is going to be is going to be, Or you could take each tile piece by piece make a grid and separate them one by one, color coded etc. NOONE would do that!! You need to be happy this job is well done and move on to another room!!

Does the tile still have grout haze on it? I have cloe white tile for my kitchen backsplash theres 1 really really white tile. I dont even notice it now that i have items on my counter.

I believe the haze is all gone but I am doing my cleaning today.

i think if it were one tile i would ne ok but is almost an entire square foot of area that stands out :(

The only thing that can be done to avoid this is to go through every box of sheets of mosaic tile and eliminate all sheets which appear to differ from the average appearance BEFORE the tile is set on the wall. It’s time-consuming, but marble tile is not like solid-color tile….there are variations which can be very obvious. I would order several extra boxes of the tile, more than needed, and set aside the sheets which do not blend well with the others. Then return the tile which does not work with the rest.

You probably won’t even notice it after a few weeks.

@felizlady - While I know this did not help the current problem, I really really appreciate this advice and knowing this in advance since I am looking at remodeling a bath and this could have potentially been an issue for me! Thank you! (and so sorry this happened for the poster)

Felizlady - I did exactly that and as mentioned all looked good on the wall until late last night. I did sort through tile to ensure best colour match but somehow these two spots arose

Unfortunately, it’s hard to “un-see” the white sections now that your eyes have focused on it. Other than ripping this section out, which is too iffy and could mess up the whole job, you need to put kitchen items in front of it until you’ve lived with it for a few months. Then you won’t see it as much.
We always focus on the part of a kitchen we are doing, to the detriment of the “whole”. I would leave it and not mess up a good installation. In the future, you know now to check every box of tiles before putting them up.

You’re right. It’s whiter than the other side. I have no suggestion other than rip it out or live with it.

Wow I think it's noticeable but I wouldn't rip it out I'd put cutting boards or something to cover that spot

Thanks everyone - just sucks I did everything possible to avoid this and still happened! Just my luck! I joked with my partner at least this wasnt our forever home haha! just need to make it nice enough before we sell in 2 years.

Q - has the marble changed any since it has had more time for the mortar to dry?

You stated that you sorted through sheets prior to installing - what color were the sheets prior to installing? Did the uninstalled sheets look more like the whiter ones - or - more like the darker ones?

I assume the whiter ones - it would be unusual for the installed marble to be whiter than before it was installed. Typically, marble is darker after installing. I’ve read many posts where people have had the same issue as what you’re experiencing. Reading these posts helped me not freak out when i had marble installed - because I knew that it would be darker - and then would lighten up as the mortar dried. It still made me anxious while I waited.

They lightend slightly, as it was driving me WILD what I did on the extra white parts was used watered down chalk paint to make it less noticeable.

i would say when I went through tiles in general yes they alpeared more white then up on the wall with grout darker

did the installer use gray thinset on the darker side and white thinset on the whiter?

Or, was the white side from a single box of tiles? (diff 'dye lots' so to speak)

(btw, your tiler couldn't tell this white sheet was different from the 'grayer' ones?)

were the marble sheets randomly pulled from diff boxes? If he went by one box at a time, then you would get diff colors. you have to pull out ALL the sheets, lay them out on the ground, and randomly pull 1 from different areas as you tile. otherwise, you'll get these blocks of 'colors'.

Nope, I went through all tiles myself AND i was home during the entire installation and can verify all looked fine until about and hour or two after grout drying

you didn't answer either of my questions.

what color thinset mortar was used? white or gray?

were the tiles randomly pulled from different boxes, or were they all layed out and randomly picked.?

or, were they put up however they came (pulled one at a time from a box in order)

how were they packaged? individual sheets w/plastic wrapping or did they come 5 to a box?

If you look at each individual sheet, yes they will look fine.

you won't notice anything unless you lay them side by side w/some others.

is it possible that gray batch in the picture started out just as white, but as they absorbed water, they got darker and grayer?

If that happened, it would explain this. because I don't understand how a tile person could install this right sided tile against the left side and no realize something was wrong.

That makes me think the left side absorbed a lot more water, (or there was gray thinset under it) causing the marble to appear a lot more gray.

why the right side didn't do it, don't know. maybe the thinset had dried out a bit? Maybe that particular cut of stone wasn't as absorbant?

again, this is why it's so important to mix up the sheets.

you really used a limewash on this marble? lets see the rest

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