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    ASK OLD HOUSE JOURNAL

    May 07, 2019 1 minute
    —Patricia Poore

    :I’m wondering about the color(s) of 1920s tile grout. I believe they used grey grout even with white tiles. I’m redoing baths in a 1926 Spanish Revival, with white dolomite hex tiles in one room and white-and-grey Carrara marble

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