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I am currently in kitchen backsplash purgatory. I found a couple of Walker Zanger backsplashes that I like from the Sonja collection in creme/black (Nash and Abazzia). I have absolute black counters with cabinetry painted in BM white dove. I would post kitchen pics, but the guys just grouted today.
The quote I received for this tile was $161 sq/ft, which would make it a 5K investment for me. I only want to spend around 1K at most.
I know that Walker Zanger is simply a marked up tile reseller. So, my question is have any of you come across other stores that seem to sell the same or similar tiles. Or, do you know of anything that looks similar to the two I mentioned and am linking?
Here is a link that might be useful: Walker Zanger Sonja
Wowza, I love that tile! It would sure be a statement backsplash, maybe that will help justify the cost? Is your kitchen very large? I spent less than half of your quote for my WZ tile. Have you considered limiting the tile to one wall, as an art piece?
Check out Mosaic House. It *might* be less expensive for similar looks, it's glazed ceramic vs. stone. But I doubt you are going to be able to achieve the look for anything close to less than 20% the price of the WZ.
You might be able to get a graphic look like the Nash with cream subway, darker pencil liners and dark grout if you figured it all out yourself, but the labor for someone else to do *that would even be high, using cheap tile.
There is a reason that tile is expensive, it's very labor intensive. And since it *is probably marked up a lot, think how little the people in Tunisia are actually paid to put something like that together. It would probably cost $50K made in the US, not $5K.
Here is a link that might be useful: Mosaic House
Is the "noir" the colorway that interests you? There are stone "flower" mosaics on Ebay, but I am not sure of the colorway availability. They are reminiscent of the Walker Zanger Sonja tiles, but, of course, not exactly like them. I can't find the link I have in mind, but if you scroll through the link below, you'll find a back splash like one that I have seen on Ebay.
Just reread your post, and I recall another thread where people named places to obtain flower tiles. I'm thinking those sellers may also have other stone patterns, more to your liking. The discussions may be on other threads that discuss grlwprls's splash, if you run a search.
Here is a link that might be useful: grlwprls's back splash
This post was edited by kitchendetective on Fri, Sep 20, 13 at 19:13
Perhaps ask this seller?
Here is a link that might be useful: Maybe contact this seller
Below are some similar tiles from Ebay, and here from Saltillo:
Here is a link that might be useful: Ebay mosaic tiles
Majra, I only have 33 sq ft of backsplash and it is all from the counters to upper cabinets. My cooktop is in an island and my sink is in front of a bay window, so I can't get away with a statement wall. Did you buy your tile directly from WZ?
Palimpsest, We are doing the tiling ourselves and he would kill me if I tried to make him place all those little tiles! :) Thank you for suggesting Mosaic.
Kitchen Detective, I will contact him! I was searching ebay in vain when you linked it in. Thanks so much!
All of those are lovely, but what I really like about the Sonja line is that it is honed and not polished. So, I would like to find something that is mainly honed (it would be okay if it had little polished accents).
Thank you nosoccermom for chiming in also!
I love those and am looking for something with a similar feel. I had a chat with a salesperson I like at my local tile store who carried something very similar and she said the sheer fact of the matter is that because it's stone and it's very small pieces, it's always going to be expensive. Labor and materials add up. I'm not saying you can't get cheaper than the WZ, but I agree that you can't count on finding a stone mosaic like that for $1K.
Her suggestion for a similar feel was ceramic or porcelain, with a design on it that gave the same complex, interlocked, geometric feel (which is what I love, I'm not so hooked on needing several colors) and maybe you could find something like that you like with a matte glaze. Alternatively, I see that you said you can't do a focal point/statement wall, but could you find a compatible and much more reasonably priced field tile and use it as a border?


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Group D will be a very interesting group, as it features the country that's won more World Cups than anybody but Brazil, the country that hosted the very first World Cup, and the country most Americans think of when they think of soccer. Oh, and Costa Rica will play the role of the scrappy underdog. Group D could prove to be the most interesting of all.
The teams
Italy: It's not really wise to count out a team that has won four World Cups, but when you think of the favorites in Brazil this summer, the Azzurri don't seem to be mentioned very often. That could change this summer, as they're the favorite to win this group, and are coming off a strong performance in Euro 2012, where they finished as runners-up to Spain in the final. Which was certainly a better performance than what we saw from the Italians in the 2010 World Cup, when the Azzurri finished fourth in a group consisting of Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand.
Uruguay: The very first World Cup was played in Uruguay in 1930, with the Charrúas naturally winning the tournament. They'd win again in 1950 (notably, in Brazil), but it's been a long drought since. The team does head into 2014 with a lot of momentum, though, as it picked up a fourth place finish in South Africa last go-round, they are the reigning Copa America champions and it has one of the most dangerous strikers in the world right now in Luis Suarez alongside PSG's Edinson Cavani.
England: The Lions will be without some familiar faces this summer, but it's possible that could be for the better. England hasn't won a World Cup since 1966 after all, and it's only managed to finish in the top four once since then, finishing fourth in 1990. There may not be another country in the world that loves its soccer more than they do in England, but that passion just hasn't led to the results it desires.
Costa Rica: Make no mistake about it, Costa Rica is the underdog of this group. If any two of the three teams mentioned above moves on to the knockout stage, nobody will be surprised. If Costa Rica moves on, however, the entire world will be shocked. This is only Costa Rica's fourth appearance in the World Cup, with the first coming in 1990. That was also Costa Rica's best performance, as it reached the Round of 16, but hasn't been able to advance since. It didn't even qualify in 2010.
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Luis Suarez: Suarez, who most soccer fans know from his clubs career at Liverpool, just finished the Premier League season with a league-best 31 goals. And that's the kind of production Uruguay would like to see him bring to Brazil, as Suarez's play in his first World Cup in South Africa was definitely a key to the team reaching the semi-finals. If Suarez maintains the form we've seen from him all year, Uruguay is a definite threat to any team it comes across. Of course, Suarez is always a threat whether he's scoring or not. It's just sometimes the threat is that he might bite you.
UPDATE: Suarez injures knee, undergoes arthroscopic surgery ahead of World Cup
Andrea Pirlo: He's not the greatest player in the world, nor is he the most renowned, but he may be one of the best to watch just to appreciate everything he does for his team. At 35 years old, this will likely be the hero of Italy's 2006 World Cup title's last appearance for his country at the World Cup. So watch him while you can, because the man who is called l'architetto (The Architect) by his teammates is a true joy to watch, be it a perfectly placed pass from 30 yards away, or a physics-defying free kick.
Steven Gerrard: Like Pirlo, this will probably be the last World Cup for one of the most beloved players in England, and the team's captain. This will be Gerrard's third World Cup, though his first as a captain, and he'll be looking for a lot more success than he found in his first two trips. Whether or not England finds that success, well, a lot of it will have to do with Gerrard. Not the flashiest player on the England squad, but along with Frank Lampard, he could be its most important.
Mario Balotelli: If you don't know who Mario Balotelli is, don't worry, you'll figure it out soon enough. No matter what he's doing, or where he's playing (or what he's driving), Mario generally always finds himself as the center of attention. Even he himself has to ask from time to time: why always me?
How the group should play out
While oddsmakers will tell you that Italy is the safest bet here, and I'm picking them to win the group, 2010 shows us that sometimes things don't work out the way they should when it comes to Italy.
When all the dust is settled, though, it should be Italy and Uruguay moving on from this group. England just hasn't looked strong enough in recent competitions to be considered a favorite against those two teams. I'm not saying it's impossible for England to move on, because I don't think it'd truly surprise anybody, but it will have to be at the top of its game.
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Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School, Cheshunt Grammar School, and Christ Church, Oxford.
After graduating from Oxford in 1971, Dobbs moved to the United States. He attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and graduated in 1975 with an M.A., M.A.L.D., and Ph.D. in nuclear defense studies. His doctoral thesis was published as SALT on the Dragon's Tail. In 2007, Dobbs gave the Alumni Salutation at Fletcher.
Dobbs' studies at Tufts were funded by a job as feature writer for the Boston Globe, where he worked as an editorial assistant and political feature writer from 1971 to 1975.[citation needed]
After getting his PhD in 1975, Dobbs returned to England and began working in London for the Conservative Party. From 1977 to 1979, he was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, who was then leader of the Opposition. From 1979 to 1981, he was a Conservative MP speechwriter. From 1981 to 1986, he served as a Government Special Advisor. From 1986 to 1987, he was the Conservative Party Chief of Staff. In 1984, he survived the Brighton bombing at the Conservative Party Conference. Considered a masterful political operator, he was called "Westminster's baby-faced hit man", by The Guardian in 1987. From 1994 to 1995, he served in the John Major government as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
On 18 December 2010, Dobbs was made a life peer, as Baron Dobbs, of Wylye, in the County of Wiltshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 20 December.[1] He sits as a Conservative Peer.[2] Lord Dobbs is also an Executive Board Member of the Conservative Friends of the Chinese. In August 2014, Lord Dobbs was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.[3]
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From 1983 to 1986, Dobbs worked at Saatchi & Saatchi as Deputy Advertising Chairman from 1983. From 1987 to 1988, he was Director of Worldwide Corporate Communications. From 1988 to 1991, he was Deputy Chairman, working directly under Maurice Saatchi.
From 1991 to 1998, Dobbs was a columnist for The Mail on Sunday newspaper. From 1998 to 2001, he hosted the current affairs programme Despatch Box on BBC Two.
Michael Dobbs' writing career began in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, the first in what would become a trilogy of political thrillers with Francis Urquhart as the central character. House of Cards was followed by To Play the King in 1992 and The Final Cut in 1994. BBC adapted each novel into a miniseries. The trilogy received 14 BAFTA nominations and two BAFTA wins and was voted the 84th Best British Show in History.[4] Netflix made a series based upon Dobbs's first novel and its BBC adaptation.
His fourth novel, Winston's War (2004), was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award, and his Harry Jones novels, "A Sentimental Traitor" and "A Ghost at the Door", for the Paddy Power Political Book of the Year awards in 2013 and 2014, respectively. His novels are also published in the United States.
Anthony Howard of The Times said "Dobbs is following in a respectable tradition. Shakespeare, Walter Scott, even Tolstoy, all used historical events as the framework for their writings. And, unlike some of their distinguished works, Dobbs's novel[which?] is, in fact, astonishingly historically accurate".[citation needed]
Dobbs has been a judge of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and lectures at dozens of literary and fundraising events each year.
He is also an executive producer of the American television series House of Cards.[5]
Dobbs, now a part-time writer, divides his time between London and Wiltshire. He has two sons from his first marriage and two stepsons with his second wife, Rachel.[6]
Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name. The two are sometimes confused.[7]
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