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Minimum grout width Tile Shower?

5 years ago

Hi, I love this forum So many great opinions and advice. I am installing 12 x 24 tiles vertically on my " smallish " alcove shower, 48 x 32. What is the minimum grout width I can get away with? One other question; Two sides of the shower will have a dark grey grout to match the dark tile, the back wall will have white grout as it will have a light accent tile wall. Does this make sense?

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Mars SC Zone 8b Mars
5 years ago
I have a question why do you need 2 different colors? I'm not sure if that would look good.
rogly
Original Author
5 years ago
I'd like to keep the back accent wall white. Here are the tiles.
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Sabrina Alfin Interiors
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
You can probably get away with 1/16" wide grout line with large format tiles like those, especially if they're rectified. Personally, I think there's too much contrast between those two tiles; if there's a flat tile version of the white textured tile, I'd go with that.
Mars SC Zone 8b Mars
5 years ago
Okay thanks for the pic.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
5 years ago
Sabrina has given you good advice regarding the grout lines. I think your tile selections are just fine. Let us see the end result. It's going to look great!!
Mars SC Zone 8b Mars
5 years ago
rogly can you show a pic of the shower?

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