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Bathroom Wall and Tile, Need Advice

11 years ago
We are renovating our bathroom which is 9.5 x 6.5 feet in size. Browsing through inspiration pictures in Houzz I always admire an accent wall in tile. Is the bathroom too small to do an accent wall in the white pearlized tile? The accent wall would be on the 9.5 foot wall which will have the 48" white polyurethane wall hung vanity and the tile would extend into the shower stall. The second question I have, do the tile colours work together? The grey Keystone Grigio tile is 36x16" will cover the floor and extend into the shower stall (2 walls)

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  • PRO
    11 years ago

    I would use a gray tile as the accent and just plain glass subway tile I think the pattern and pearlizing is too busy and the wrong colour with the flooring an accent tile needs to stand out a bit to really work you might even be able to find a mosaic tile that would look awesome


  • 11 years ago

    I purposely looked for a tile that had a gloss finish to match the gloss on the pearlized tile. The pearlized tile does pick up grey undertones from the floor tile and I will be painting the walls in grey. Thank you for your comments

  • 11 years ago
    Are you going to introduce another color as well? If your tiles just go with shades of white, then I say no.

    The accent wall of tile is a warm white, while the flooring is a cool gray predominately. There is not enough of a contrast to be interesting, and not enough of a match to be a single color. You might look at a different shade of floor tile. I do like the idea of the accent wall in that tile-- it is beautiful.
  • 11 years ago

    Thank you for your comments. In Toronto I have had a challenge finding a grey coloured floor tile that has a polish to compliment the gloss on the wall tile. It would seem matte tiles are the rage at the moment. I did not want to go too dark on the floor tiles because of the size of bathroom. I was also trying to give a 'spa like' feel to the room.

  • 11 years ago

    Have you been to Olympia Tile on Lawrence Street yet? They have a huge selection and also a clearance centre next door. Their sales consultants are really good at making recommnedations with what works well together.

  • 11 years ago

    Thank you for your comments Maureen. We were there twice this past week! I would like to use grey on the floor and although hard to believe, we could not find a polished interesting tile in grey, everything is matte. There was only one polished tile at Olympia which had grey tones but also cream to brown tones, I just did not like.

  • 11 years ago

    I love the combination of the two you have selected. However, consider putting the white tiles vertically, not horizontally. I'm assuming you have a white commode and sink? It will look lovely as a neutral base so you can add color via a rug; towels and artwork. Lovely choices!

  • 11 years ago

    Thank you Barbara.

  • 11 years ago

    Thank you and I appreciate your input. Stone Tile certainly has an extensive website, I will check them out. The shower stall will have a matte tile and with the bath mat I decided not to be concerned with the slip factor. The Keystone Grigio tile for the floor is not a high polish I think it would be considered semi-polished. In the daylight the tile has grooves and scratches.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I'd want to be sure that the floor tile isn't too slippery (it looks quite glossy.) Then I'd want the gray walls or any other gray trim to bring out the deepest shade of gray in your floor, to create as much contrast as you can between floor and white walls. Then choose towels, rug, art in a deeper or more vivid color; many would work well.

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