Well, shoot, we ripped up the tile and replaced it with tile...
Our house is pretty boring and about as un-styled as you would expect from two engineers. Wood floors, neutral-ish paint (beige, pale yellow, pale blue, pale green). Tile. Black and white bathroom. But, not fancy black and white. Just...the floor tile is black and white and the tile is white and the sink is white on a black cabinet.
Does un-stylish go out of style?
A designer whose blog I read from time to time (Maria Killam) is fond of saying, "Boring now equals timeless later."
I love it.....I'm timeless.....I actually always said that about my business attire (when I needed business attire), it was 'timeless', aka, you couldn't tell what year I bought it. I didn't care what the "in" colour was this year, blah, blah, blah
when we reno'd the old house kitchen, we put in quartz, because it doesn't require the maintenance of granite (I'm boring and lazy). We had the 'forever' home built and again put in quartz. Old house had brownish with flecks of copper and other beige/brown - and DH couldn't see the crumbs etc....new place is a mostly white with swirls of grey. It shows EVERYTHING, but this way I know my kitchen counter is clean.
Because we hate to paint, and hate going through renos even more, we went with a very neutral white/grey palette for floors and walls.....I use consumables like towels for my splash of colour, and pictures.....and our view is awesome no matter the season, so I look out a window if I need something 'exciting'......
I will never be trendy, and I'm really, really okay with that. I've always said "function over fashion" for everything, clothing, design, cars, phones, wall colours, shoes especially, etc
mm1970 - you're not un-stylish - you're timeless! (it's all about the framing of things)