Wow,
I would have never guessed it to be porcelain! It's beautiful! I'm sure your installer will have an idea of how to arrange it. Are you putting in on a diagonal or just like you have it arranged in the picture?

ok, i feel better now ...thanks! it will go on a diagonal.

It's so hard to judge tile from pictures, but right off I'd say that stuff is FABULOUS.

Can you get a macro closeup? And who is the manufacturer? It's really hard to judge from that distance.

Someone on "Bang for the Buck" used this product. Totally fooled the designer (David Bromstadt) who thought it was very expensive marble. If it can fool a designer close up, it must be fabulous in person!

it's hard to say from pics. i looked at some porcelain calcatta last week---it was called evolution, i think. it looked pretty good...especially the honed!! the polished looked abit more "fake"...not nearly as dimensional as real marble. the pricing on that was more like 11 or 12$/sq foot tho... $3.89/ft is really cheap if you like the look!
my opinion tho is you might want to go with subways or something different in the shower, just so it wouldn't so much of that look....especially if it's polished--- i'm basing that opinion on the evolution tiles i saw in person.

I think you're smart to work out the arrangement on your own. My experience was that the experts don't necessarily spend as much time as you would to get the look that you want. Be involved and don't worry about being a nuisance. It's your bathroom and you'll probably be looking at it for a long time.

By the way, the tile is beautiful!

While I agree that it can be difficult to tell from a picture, those tiles look beautiful to me. I think they would look lovely on the walls of a shower.

I'd STRONGLY agree with Suellen about arranging the tiles yourself if you're willing. Some really good tile professionals would do it well, but lazy ones will just grab a tile from the box and go -- which could leave you with two identical tiles side by side.

Those look very realistic to me, but I'd still keep them on the floor as opposed putting them at to eye-level. They'll look much more realistic from a distance of 5' than 2". Also, showers fully tiled in a strongly-patterned marble can be a bit overwhelming.

Also, if you're considering putting the tile on the wall, be sure to hold it up vertically to see what it looks like. I put the same tile on the floor and on the wall, and it looks a totally different color on the wall than on the floor. It's all in how the light hits it.

sorry, i don't have a macro lens but i took one as close as i could get. the surface is honed (matte) not polished. i didn't clean it up too much (just a little brightness and recovery so it wouldn't look so "dirty".)
i like how they added those white streaks going off in opposite directions, which i think does a good job of mimicking real marble.
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Looks pretty good from here--and sorry I missed your saying who the manufacturer was in the original post. Sometimes you can see 'pixels', as my DD puts it, or the print is really sloppy looking--but this looks nice and nuanced.

i think it looks pretty good too! the honed would look beautiful on the floor...and then maybe you could work out a design which uses plain subways and some calcatta(real or porcelain) for trim in the shower.

I found some really nice marble-look tile at my tile store for about $2 a sq foot! You really couldn't tell the different. However, I'm going to have to change it because I'm going to coordinate with the kitchen.

Wow, I cannot tell the difference! I looked for porcelain that look like marble, and was never happy because it was never the real thing. Porcelanosa's $12 per sq. ft. tile came close. Anyway, I went for something else. But this tile --- you cannot tell the difference!!