We are renovating our bathroom and are having a difficult time with tile placement in regard to direction. Attaching a picture of the bathroom for visual orientation.

The question is what direction to put our tiles on the floor and on the walls. We are planning on using gray colored tiles with similar colored grout from floor to ceiling.

Here are the thoughts we have- we have 12x24 sized tiles and all will be the exact same color and grout color. Bathroom is roughly 10ft from window to window(width) and 11ft from door to door(length)

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1) tiles on floor are perpendicular to cabinet and tub and then and vertical on the walls to match the direction of the floor. Problem is that the back wall of the shower will not match the floor due to orientation. I also understand that this may make the floors look wider, but the walls taller and maybe make the entire bathroom look smaller

2) Tiles on floor are parallel to cabinets and horizontal (ie parallel to tub on walls). The floors will match the wall to the right but will be perpendicular to the ones on the back wall of the shower...maybe a tall effect from the floor and wide effect from the walls

3) tiles on floor perpendicular to cabinets and walls parallel to the tub. I presume that this would provide an all up wider bathroom look .

We are basically ripping out the tub and creating a walk in shower/ dry area with a bench, installing stone tile in the niches (you cant see them, but to the right where the mirror is and near where I am standing to my left (above the tub)...I want to make the bathroom look bigger but also want something that will be appreciated by buyers at the time of when we sell the house (Which isnt any time soon). Any advise, thoughts, opinions would be greatly appreciated~!!!