Think We Like Slate?

We finished installing slate tile in the front hall and fireplace hearth (the same tile we used in the bathroom). We still need to caulk between the tile and hardwood (which will cover the light gray mortar that shows up a lot around the edges of the tile in the photo below), but we had to special order caulk to match our grout and I didn't want to wait to do a blog post. The cutting in this job was pretty simple ... just a matter of making sure everything was centered and symmetrical. Laying the tiles was a little more difficult ... trying to get the tile to be even in height with the previously installed hardwood proved to be quite a task ... it pretty much just required doing trial and error to see how much mortar was needed under each tile. It worked out though and should look good once we get baseboards installed and stuff. We have started discussing the plan to cover the ugly brick on our fireplace, but that's a topic for another post.