On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:26:34 GMT, "Umgall"
wrote:

Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone have a black tiled floor with
a dark kitchen?

Any advice would be gratefully received!

Asked my tiler neighbour and he did say he has tiled 4 black kitchens
in the last year, and been asked back to redo 3 of them in lighter
tile after about 6 months. They were of the modern fad for very
glossy mineral work surfaces and high gloss cupboards in dark
red/dark blue/dark dark with black porcelain floor tiles and dark or
black wall tiles. Lighting (to misuse the word somewhat) was a
ceiling full of downlighters. All the work came from the same
designer - whose knowledge of cooking and lighting are about on a par
but whose gothic look work is for some reason very popular with the
footballers who have bought around here.

He hates doing them as the only way of handing them over is for
everyone to back out polishing the floor and wall tiles as they go.
The second anyone walks in the slightest mark stands out (the daft
lighting not helping of course).

One was changed after the resident WAG broke her elbow very badly
discovering that a few drops of chicken fat, water and porcelain
tiles rival wet PTFE for coefficient of friction. As Anne has said,
while porcelain tiles have merit, they are very slippy when wet and
this needs to be carefully considered especially if the kitchen is a
popular route between indoors and outdoors.
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/