Man. We're making a lot of decisions around these parts. That's all we're doing lately but that's cool.

I mentioned last week that our house is suffering from the DIY snowball effect. The next victim?

The hearth tile.

Not the dog. The dog stays. (He is so stinking cute right now. I can't even.)

Our current tile is fine. But that's it. Just fine. Boring but fine.

Since we're ripping up the carpet we decided we just might as well go crazy and get new tile too. The tile is purely decorative beings the fireplace is electric.

Problem was that Nate and I had differing ideas on this project. We usually agree on most everything but we had completely different thoughts on this one. We headed to the Tile Shop in Des Moines to check out our options. (This project is not sponsored in any way. We just love the Tile Shop. We shelled out our hard earned $45 on this one so no one has to get huffy about bloggers getting free things. *bungees off soap box*)

I was leaning towards some type of small hex preferably in a light tone. I think I was heavily influenced by blog reading on this one. (For example, Gabbi's makeover makes me want to pet her hearth.)

Nate had in mind a large, dark tile laid out vertically.

Neither of hated the others decision. But we each liked our own idea better.

We don't run into this often. We usually have very similar thoughts. This was a tough one.

We checked out each others top choice and then did some looking outside of our original thoughts. We were pondering these barn wood looking tiles. We loved the look but we weren't sure we wanted to go quite this country. We also questioned how timeless they would be.