taste in tiles

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

do you love all the tiling jobs taste- wise that your customers come up with or do you think they sometimes need a taste transplant
some of the pools i do i think look crap because the client has no taste, this never compromises my standard of work, i still try my best how about you?

 

[hillhead]

We just have to smile and say "they're lovely".
I remember once around 5 years ago, big house(millionaires) and the kitchen floor tiles arrived !!! yuk ! i rang the woman of the house and asked her to come to it.
When she came i asked her if this was what she picked? Do you think they are bad Joe? yes i said.lol.
What a mix of shades,got tile shop man out and had nice row but new tiles within 3 hours which looked great.lol.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Taste -
We did a barn conversion a couple of years ago and the client had bought 30x30cm tiles that were in royal blue and to look like a mosaic on a tile.
I laid a few out on the site cabin floor and asked if they were the right tiles and that as a professional I couldn't make them look like a good job! He replied that he had them on his present house and that's what he thought he wanted again.
I took them back to the distributors and put a nice marble down instead.
It was either that or he could get someone else to fix them.

 

[Stewart]

I always ask the customer not to ask me what I think of their choice in tiles as honesty often offends..........


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[White Room]

Similar to TJ with the tiles, these were a light blue and looked gross, all the prep work was done a couple of so called builder mates, did'nt give it house room.

 

[Peter]

There are times when you think to yourself, "how can this person actually think this will look good?".

Was doing a job for a young couple, wealthy father who had given them the house and they were spending megabucks from the high end places that you love to hear of a job coming up from. 20k bathroom and 40k kitchen later, the house had absolutely zero taste. The girl had a couple of different sample tiles, the builder kept trying to persuade her to go with other samples but she wasn't having any of it.

The icing on the cake was two of those circular towel rails that look like they're for putting newspapers and magazines in.

 

[Pebbs]

Bad taste extends even to those who make their living out of being called an 'interior designer'. On the longest running contract in my entire history, we are with interior design company number 4, the other 3 have all been given the boot, because they never listened to the clients. Number 4 is ok though hes one that listens, the others saw an open cheque book and went completely potty, so now we are ripping out work from over 3 years ago, and replacing it. If any client ever asks me what I think of any project scheme now I ask the question, can you live with this? that way it gets me out of hot water. The others now just tell me to get on with it and give them something lovely, and that is as bad because then the pressure is on to give them something out of this world (all within budget of course).

Pebbs

 

[SandyFloor]

Most of my work is domestic and I'm dealing with the wives. I even have to check myself getting slightly camp talking about colour schemes Apparently it's a subconscious act I put on and I was unaware of it until my wife pointed out I speak differently on the phone to women customers than to men. If I start calling everyone 'darling' I think it's time to quit :lol:. You can knock it but I'm never short of work.