Looking for Tiles

Today my wife and I looked for the tiles to use for renovation. We planned to go to Trade Hub 21 to look around at the showroom of Lian Seng Hin and Hafary. But the first one happened to be closed for one day for a company event which is today. So we went to Hafary and listed down what tiles we want to use for the bathroom wall, the dry area of the floor, and the wet area of the floor.

After having lunch and watching Midnight Runners, a Korean movie of two police students battling women’s eggs broker, we were considering to either go to Soon Bee Huat near IMM or White Horse Ceramics at Sungai Kadut. As our contractor said that the White Horse Ceramics is a 20K-squarefeet-showroom, we decided to go there. It turned out to be in Yew Tee while I thought it is somewhere very north.

The level 1 of White Horse Ceramics was similar to Hafary. But the second level of White Horse Ceramics are amazing. They build so many booths for showing mock-ups of different styles of bathrooms. So it was much easier to visualize how the tiles would look like when assembled into a bathroom. We therefore decided to choose White Horse Ceramics.

In both Hafary and White Horse Ceramics, the advice from my best friend is true, the ones having higher price is not necessarily nicer. There are many times where the cheaper one looks nicer to me and my wife. Perhaps this is to remind that there are certain things that are subjective to our preferences. So higher price is not necessarily better. Also, it was amazing to see different kinds of tiles with different color, patterns - there can be even many kinds of wood-texture tiles, and from different countries.

Interestingly, it is very hard to take pictures of the tiles as the color in the screen is different from what we saw. Previously I thought it is only a printer that has problems in reaching the desired color which is in the screen. Apparently it is equally hard for the camera to produce image that is close to the desired color which is what our eyes see. The good thing is that after we ordered, White Horse Ceramics gave us the sample to bring back. So we can show to our family on how the color really look likes together with the texture.

Thank God that somehow in one day we managed to settle on the choice of tiles.