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Bathroom tile selection help

6 years ago

This is a small bathroom that our children use. We are at tile selection stage. There is no window in this bathroom. My husband loves the large hexagon opal grey 11x13 for the shower walls. The shower floor pictured is multi gray penny and the bathroom floor is satin white matte 2 inch hexagon. I am concerned these selections will clash.

Comments (19)

  • 6 years ago

    PLEASE HELP!

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Yes, they will. It’s very difficult to match up various tiles on your own. We are now in the process of a master bathroom renovation.

    I am not a decorator! I look for selections that are put together for me. So, wall tile with matching floor and shower.

    We are doing a polished wall, small squares in matte and the large floor tiles in matte that coordinate with the polished wall tiles.

    I am nervous about slipping so I prefer matte in the shower.

    Go back to the tile shop and look at selections that are already coordinated.

    Wall tiles are actually not as dark as photo shows.

    When we began this project I thought I could coordinate tiles myself, but after bringing home countless samples, I realized this wasn’t going to work.


  • 6 years ago

    It looks beautiful

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    I wouldn't do the large hex on the walls. Consider using it on the main floor, with the white hex as the shower floor and then a larger subway for the walls, gray would be OK.

  • 6 years ago

    Kelly, ask for tile boards that are already coordinated.

    I like Skip’s advice.


  • 6 years ago

    We helped youngest daughter with hers. She lives in an Art Deco building in NYC.

    Tiles that look like marble and a smaller tile floor.


  • 6 years ago

    It seems like smaller tile is better on the floor bc it’s such a small area

  • 6 years ago

    Not necessarily. Here’s my oldest daughter tiny East Village bathroom. We used large tiles on walls. Fro the floors my husband picked through and found tiles that did not have a lot if pattern, and they became the floor.

  • 6 years ago

    It really is overwhelming. Many things can work, but some don’t and you want to avoid that.

    i would choose one element that you like and google. Gray hexagon floor tiles in a bathroom. See what comes up. Get inspiration.

    The easiest is to go for the collections that are made to go together. Why reinvent the wheel?

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    Large hex for the walls is great. Lose the dark gray penny rounds and just use the smaller hexes for both the shower floor and the bathroom floor.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Here is what Skip had in mind

    show this to your husband!

    Notice that the grays don’t clash. You would think that anything can go, but not the case.


  • 6 years ago

    We are looking at this now

  • 6 years ago

    Kelly, that last tiles you show just look so drab, sad and depressing ... like a 50 year old dirty concrete patio. I think you want to pick something light and bright for a windowless bathroom. Those pebble tiles don't usually look so good after they are installed and do you really want to clean all that extra grout.

  • 6 years ago

    This is what the designer picked out. The white subway has wavy lines that i thought would make me crazy bc the tikes would not seem straight

  • 6 years ago

    be sure you know the skill level of your tile setter -- we see tons of complaints from people using both pennies and pebble mosaics that end up with a clear grid of the sheets. it takes a skilled and patient setter to take the mosaics apart at the edges and hand place them to make it all run together. if you're not sure you have that skilled a guy, pick something simpler. I like the idea of keeping the big hexes on walls, and using the small ones on floors everywhere.

  • 6 years ago

    Not sure I would use those wavy tiles on a shower wall. I like to squeegee the shower walls and glass door and those tiles wouldn't be the best for that.

  • 6 years ago

    Pebbles are popular in the showrooms now. They look nice, but I was also afraid of slipping.

    Best to stay with a matte tile for the shower floor.

    You are getting closer.

    How about a regular subway for the walls, use the gray for the floor as long as it is matte finished, then a mosaic gray mix for the shower floor.

    Use the gray in the floor tile as your guide to match the shower floor tiles.

    No marble. It is slippery and we kept being talked into putting stuff on it which was ridiculous to do to a new floor.