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On the good side – it was $15.00 / box of 30 ($0.50 / sq ft), so it seemed a bargain. 5 boxes plus $60 shipping to my address came to about $130, enough to cover both our kitchen and bathroom. It took 8 days from order to receipt. It has a glossy sheen and is flexible and easy to trim-cut with scissors. There were a very few surface spot marks and some of the tiles had ‘leaked’ their sticky at the edges onto one another, but all cleaned off with a light alcohol solution and made them easier to work with.

On the bad side – at the minor level, the color was very slightly bluer and grayer than the general ‘off-white’ granite, or ‘diamond’ look, but forgivable – it’s close. It has the uncanny look that if you look straight down at a tile, it has the white effect; but if you look at a normal angle, it seems blue/gray – weird. It’s flexibility also creates a potential to tear at the edge (if you are not careful!).

At the major level, and this one is unforgivable, NO TWO PIECES HAVE THE SAME PATTERN! Pay attention to the ‘(Misc.)’ notation in this items’ description line; I was not experienced enough to do so. You might expect this with a solid color or very speckled patterns, where you would not be able to tell one tile from another. But for most tiles you normally expect a single tile repeating pattern, even if there is a top-bottom orientation, especially with geometric designs. While this design isn’t exactly geometric, we expected a simple repeat… and we didn’t get it. Of the 150 tiles received, they came in two completely different strips, 74 repeating about every 22″ and 76 about 21.5″ – non even consistent with each other. Since the cut is 12″, the individual tile-to-tile pattern creeps along those measurements in such a way as to make it impossible to layout the floor with any sense – the individual pieces just don’t blend into one another. Worse, one of the (almost) two-foot long patterns is extremely different at one end, so that if you start your floor layout at one side of the room and proceed outward, the pattern changes from a more solid design appearance there to almost plain at the other side of the room. One option was to just shuffle them all together and just grab them at random and lay them down. The only way we found to partially defeat this look was to start in the middle and build in concentric clockwise circles around it, saving the outward plainer pieces for under appliances, tables, and partial edging. Still, no matter what you do, the overall look necessarily retains a totally haphazard look about it, as if whoever laid it down either didn’t know what they were doing, forgot to pay attention to the pattern or was blindfolded! It’s not a really a bad design – just non-repeating and non-symmetrical.

I was sorely tempted to just eat this one and purchase another set of tiles with a guaranteed single tile repeat, but since the existing flooring is so bad, even this stuff was an improvement!

My advice? If you really don’t care, this one is about as inexpensive as you will find and therefore a good buy for the basement furnace room or the rarely visited attic storeroom. If you really do care, that is, if you don’t want friends and neighbors to say to each other after a visit to your home, “OMG, did you see what they did to their kitchen floor?”, then shop for an alternate product. I know it’s not scientific, but I’m just saying… you were warned.

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