I wanted to ask others who are going to be impartial and probably more honest since they don't know me. here goes...

We live in a 1940's California Bungalow, in Los Angeles, not a Spanish nor Ranch or Craftsman style home. Just a typical Bungalow. The guest bath has a shower that when we purchased it the sellers/flip had to take care of the shower pan and was not able to find that lovely salmon/pink colored tile that is typical of 1940s so they patched the floor with grape colored tile. Realizing it was a patch we new it would need to be changed out. My partner thinks this dual color was no accident and liked it. So now having the shower remodeled he's replacing the salmon/pink with white and had to special order the grape costing him $500 for this tile to keep that color on the shower floor and 2 rows up on the wall.

He thinks I would have agreed to this but never talked it over with me. A friend tells me that this will look like another patch job and could hurt with the resale. Which is a greater fear in our current market.

Should we have stuck to 1 color through out the shower when we had it gutted? I would have preferred it be all white if anything.

So if I get this post right. You are patching a patch job?

If that is the case. My only suggestion is to live with it if it keeps you both happy. As long as its not going to leak.

But if your planning to sell. Tear it all out and do it right with nutural colors or if your looking to keep with the colors of the period. Do it over with those.

The reason being is house sales now are tough. People want new clean crisp looking bathrooms. Not ones that resemble patch jobs. So your right on with the resale issue.

Be prepared. With all the house flipping craze going on most of these folks are cutting corners. This means if they did this tile over floor patch, What else are they hiding?

Spending a ton of cash for some custom tile to re-patch a patch is nuts in my opinion. It will always look like a patch and future prospective buyers will question this which will end up hurting your sale.

Hey - thanks for the response. I figured there would be someone out there that would think like I do...

When the contractor removed the old tile they found some water damage from the work that was done recently or during the flip. The contractors had to remove the flip patch and fix the damaged wood framing. This seems to be all repaired now.

My choices would have been to do something netural on the tile work, keep it simple and easy to work with when you look at paint colors for the rest of the walls.

We still have a larger bath to do and honestly I'm about to throw my hands up and give in. I just can't seem to get it through my partner's head what would be better in the long run.