That being said as beautiful as it can be -
the thick grout lines and the layered effect of the facing, make it very hard to keep clean, which is part of the reason it is now so unpopular.
Not exact matches
Though less expensive than porcelain, they tend to be manufactured with fewer straight edges and square corners, which means that
grout lines need to be
thicker.
I have ugly green tile in my bathroom and it's in perfect shape and would be extremely expensive to pull down (old house,
thick layer of concrete and chicken wire behind the tile)- do you think if I caulked in the
grout lines I could wallpaper straight over the tile?