Grout color.

One major thing I've learned this week with my home's renovation is that grout color is not always as it appears. 

My contractor knew I wanted the dog room and kitchen room to be a gray grout and he went to Home Depot and purchased two different grays that he thought would work great with the two tiles I picked out. 

The kitchen was Delorean Gray and looks awesome! It dries is a very light gray and works great with the lights tones of the tile.  However for the dogs room he went with what was called an oyster gray grout. We did show it to me and I approved it looked gray on the bag: 

With this color looks are deceiving to say the least. When it went on it was looking awesome: 

As it dried it turned to a white.  Even my contractor didn't understand it. Really change my opinion of the room and not in a good way: 

I definitely wanted to grout to blend with the tile and not stand out.  As it was drying and I saw it turn whiter and whiter. I went to Home Depot's app on my phone and pulled up the oyster gray color to see what it looks like online and it definitely looks different online than it does even on the bag.

Since I was really not feeling the color

I turned back to Pinterest for solutions. Saw many pins about using grout colorant to renew or change grout color. My contractor said the gray was more of a green gray so I decided to go with what looks to be a green gray called natural gray colorant. And now I know to go by the online colors for a more realistic scheme after drying instead of looking at the bag color.  (I assume the grout color would be similar but I'm only using it in the colorant so couldn't vouch for that.)

I did this right away, not want to live with the way it was looking. Also being a new floor I wanted to be able to show it off and I do not want to show the white lines. It was easy enough to apply. I did buy a fine brush at Home Depot but I ended up not even really using it. A toothbrush was the better option. I would basically just do a line at a time and put the colorant down and then quickly wiped away the excess on the tile and worked my way out of the room. One bottle was plenty for the whole room which is 100 sqft. So it was like a $15 fix and makes a world of difference. 

Now I love this room so much I'm not even sure I want to give it back to the dogs as a dog room.