Help Me Save This Bathroom!

9 years ago

We are working on a new build and I am days away from tiling the hall bath and now I have regrets! This bathroom will be a childrens bathroom for a 3 and 5 year old. I have envisioned the feel to be a casual coastal or slight nautical feel. Floor tile is already installed and is a grey wood tile. Other tile is ordered and cannot be returned, so I am trying to use as much of it as possible. Here was our original plan: grey wood floor tile, white subway tile with chair rail and 3 rows of grey eye penny rounds around the room and continuing around bathtub. White pencil trim on bottom of penny rounds was in question. Debated between pencil and no pencil. Above chair rail in bathtub was going to be herringbone pattern and then pencil trim and 3 rows of regular laid subway. All white grout for subway. We were leaning towards white vanity. Now here are the parts that have me second guessing everything. I worry the herringbone will take away from the casual feel. I think I may prefer the classic look of a normal laid subway. From the beginning I imagined a turquoise or some sort of blue paint color on the walls. I also really like the Cambria Montgomery Quartz countertop and feel it will go nicely with the color and feel of the bathroom I envision. The paint sample and countertop do not go with the grey penny rounds. I am not sure which way to go from here. Stick with grey and come up with new decor ideas? Keep paint color and countertop and find new accent tile? Outside hallway (and throughout most of home) will be grey paint, so I want to bring color to this room. Open to all ideas, but grey wood floor tile and white subway has to remain in the design at this point. Any thoughts?

Wood tile, Cambria Montgomery Quartz and grey penny rounds are the ones in upper left corner.

My decor ideas for the bathroom.

Paint sample on wall next to white subway and penny rounds with countertop sample. This is another unit which has a darker grey pencil trim and no wall tile.

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nosoccermom

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

@caligirl: Yes, fresh and simple and will stand the taste of time. You can go any direction with accessories. paint color, or even style of lighting, mirror, vanity in the future.

Rustic, elegant, casual, or crazy:

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nosoccermom
9 years ago
Based on my experience, I would go as simple as possible with the tiles unless you're open to replacing tiles in a couple of years.

So, no accent tiles, herringbone/change in directions of tiles, etc.
aprilneverends
9 years ago
I wouldn't do any accent tiles. The floor is cool and has a very nautical feel..go simple, bring in cool accessories(as I can see you're planning to)-and you'll get a wonderful bathroom that will lean the direction you'll take it, either now or in several years when kids become older.

If the penny rounds are already in-leave them in, but I'd go with less busy countertop as possible (I know, this one is relatively not busy..but maybe something even simpler)

Leave the paint decision until all the elements-including the lights-are in.
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caligirl8i8
Original Author
9 years ago
So something like this? (Except the grey wood tile on floor and a white vanity instead of pedestal sink.)
enduring
9 years ago
I think I love the floor with the counter. That is if the colors are dead on matched in areas, and they look like they are on my screen. I'm confused about the herringbone and the penny rounds. Were you thinking of using both in the room. I would not. One or the other. I happen to love herringbone and used it in my kitchen and my bathroom. I mixed a bunch, but because of what I chose it all seems to blend ok. I like pencils to define an area. choose paint last, cause paint comes in soooo many colors. The most limiting element so far is the floor because its installed. I love the floor. You could go white with the penny rounds that would just show off texture in the field.

I am posting a picture of my wainscoting to illustrate what I did. It is not what I am proposing you do. But it has a variety of tiles and colors, but still very subtle. Progress picture. I painted the upper wall before I tiled because I am a s#*t painter. Worked for me. The bottom baseboard what laid with a subtle tweak to level, cause the floor isn't level. The next row was the 4x4 field tile, and that is the row that I trimmed to level. Then I laid the pencil. The pencil was chosen because it matched the bottom of the crown profile. The marble stiletto was thicker than the field tile, so I had to make sure the pencil was placed so that it was proud of the marble. The last the crown went up:

I don't remember why I didn't line the pencil up with the crown on this wall. All the other walls it's lined up. I was on a learning curve as this bathroom was my second tile installation. The kitchen backslash being my first:
MizLizzie
9 years ago
I'm currently working on a project with Cambria Montgomery, and I think your floors will look great with the countertop. Photographs don't do Montgomery justice, because they don't pick up the polished nickel-like sparkle. (As an aside, can you please let us know where you found the flooring?) I am doing a simple white shower, subway for sure and beveled subway possibly. My accent tile, used very minimally, will be a blue glass and grey-white marble blend. Again, the photos don't do this tile justice and make it look more baby blue than it is, just FYI. I think I will use only two rows of this glass in the shower, and because I like a traditional look, I might edge of the row at top and bottom with a thin, white pencil trim, hobnailed. Plain white pencil or a gray-blue glass pencil would look good, too. I tried the penny round, too, but everything I found was either too blue or too gray for the Montgomery. Good luck with your project.