What's Up With That? Unfortunate Tile Trim 11

This is the continuation of a series of posts that will highlight some truly unfortunate tile trim installations.

This one is really going to give Jim Stevenson the "heebie-jeebies". The picture below was taken in the bathroom of my hotel room in Northern California. The highlights of this peculiar installation are the use of grout and plastic molding to trim the tile. What's up with that?

This regrettable installation could have been avoided had the customer used a custom bullnose manufacturer (like American Bullnose Company) where the kiln fired glazes can be custom matched to the field tile.

If you run across any unfortunate tile trim, snap a picture and email it to us with info about where and when the picture was taken and what made you ask yourself, "what's up with that?"

Author: Mike Gardiner