It's not exactly true to the period.

But sometimes you just gotta go with what you love.
I wanted to bring slate into the house design, somehow. I tried the master bathroom first, but since it's not a huge gigundo master bath, I thought it would make the room too dark and cave-ish. I wanted to put it in the kitchen flooring, but I got nervous about flaking and slipping and cracking and all that good stuff.

I had given up on it entirely until I went to a friend's house and saw it in her mudroom. "Wow!" I said. What kind of ceramic tile is that? It looks just like slate!" She told me that it was indeed slate and that even with three rambunctious boys and a pool in her backyard, which invites all kinds of wet feet back and forth across the mudroom, she LOVED the slate floor. Couldn't get enough of it.

So I decided to put this 12x12 field tile in our mudroom at the back of the house. I picked a palette that incorporates the browns, blacks, and yellows that will be in the kitchen, which you enter after leaving the mudroom. I hope it turns out OK.