If that is the case, I recommend keeping your style more "classic".

Agree with looking cheap, if your heart isn't set on the mosaics you could do a standard subway tile....such a classic look and always in style and doesn't break the bank either....

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Parked in the yard were 2 brand new muscle cars and a classic one.

We are not paying for value here, as there is still no 'guarantee' of 'hitting' value, we're just saying "hey, look, this is going to be a tough one..." and giving an appraiser that wants to practice classic high-quality trade-craft (eg, the 70% of stuff they learned during training that they never use, or haven't used for the last 6 years or so due the economics of time) an opportunity to step up to bat and give it a whack.

White is a classic color, it's not out of style and never will be.

Financing long-term assets with short-term money is the classical road to bankruptcy.  

This was a classic “tenant calls and bothers you about a stopped toilet” – which I’ve ironically never had in the 14 other units I manage..

However, if they then sell it 3 years later when the house is worth $475,000, they pay capital gains taxes on the $75,000 of gain.Now let's say your mom has this house and also several million dollars worth of furs, jewels, classic cars, stocks, bonds and gold stashed under the mattress.  

Based on the classical criteria of rent = 1% of purchase price, it looks pretty good.