Hi everybody,

We are embarquing on a DYI full bathroom reno and I need urgent help with the design, especifically choosing tile colours. I am very afraid of making a mistake on this project and my problem is that I lack the vision designers have to predict how well things will look and flow together. Could you please help me?

Our master bathroom is small (5.5 ft x 9 ft), it has 1 window on the east side and it only gets a limited amount of natural light. Our plan is to remove the bath tub and put a ceramic shower stall with an Mechanix M1 shower door and small tiles in the shower floor (perhaps a square mosaic tiles), and bigger tiles on the shower walls, and then tile the rest of the floor perhaps with the same tile that will go on the shower walls. The layout of the bathroom will remain as is except for the entrance door which will be moved to the right (towards the window) and will be changed by a pocket door.

For design inspiration, I have looked at a lot of pictures of contemporary and modern bathrooms in Houzz and the ones I like the most are for much bigger and brighter spaces than ours. We would love to have a bathroom that is modern and simple, something we hope to like for long, long time. We would like to use neutral colours, perhaps grey to toupe tones as supposed to beige (most of the house is in beige already with maple floors in natural colour and I like what I see in pictures of rooms with rustic, unfinished cement walls), but I wonder if the grey tones we have pre-chosen are too dark and lifeless for this small space.

To give you ideas of what we have and what I like, attached are some pictures of our bathroom, the tiles we have considered so far, and one of my favourite designs.

What could you recommend us in terms of colour and finish (glossy or mate) for the tiles? Is it a good idea to have the same tile on the shower walls and floor area or shall we go with a lighter colour in the floor? What could you recommend for the pain