Hi Einav, thanks so much for the detailed answers to each of my questions. You are right about wood look tile possibly clashing with the wood cabinets. I am deciding to stick to Stone look tiles.

I too like the hexagon tiles and like your idea of using the dark with white lines on the floor with the white with black lines on the tub wall. Only problem is that the dark tile on the floor will require a white or light gray grout. I can’t spend time cleaning and maintaining grouts, so want to apply very dark gray grout everywhere.

Your concrete color tile selections are very attractive. I don’t know your cabinet colors. Do you think they will go well with my honey oak cabinets?

Also, thanks so much for the tips on large format tile installation issues and also hexagonal ones. I wasn’t aware of these

Einav, another idea - suppose i use the white tile with light gray vein (next to the hexagon) on the floor, will it look all right to install a light gray long wood look tile with rectified edge on the tub walls? Since that is not next to any honey oak wood, it will not clash. And grout will be very thin and easy to maintain as the edge will be rectified. Will combining 2 types of tile looks go well together?

Because the oak color is so far from current popular design choices, you can do anything you want. If you want to jump right to the most popular current trend replace the cabs with units from IKEA in European Oak. Venhamn. Find out about VEDHAMN oak kitchen fronts - IKEA And others doing it. Link.

And if it's not for you, it may work for another forum member. Doing this opens up all the current choices for tile, counters and hardware.

@dan1888 Thanks for the feedback. I absolutely love those IKEA cabinets. Very tempting except that i have so much of honey oak everywhere in the house, it will be difficult and expensive to transform it all to latest trends. The guest bathroom has a closet door and the main door plus all trims in honey oak. So i am trying to work with all that.

Hi Deb,

Only problem is that the dark tile on the floor will require a white or light gray grout

Not necessarily - I've looked at the customer photos of this tile, and it appears they used dark grout; granted - when using a dark grout, the hexagon shape won't be as well-defined as with a light grout, so it may not be the look that you're looking for.

Your concrete color tile selections are very attractive. I don’t know your cabinet colors.

Thank you! My cabinets are painted Behr's Greige. Here is an in-progress photo of the cabinets along with my floor tile:

Do you think they will go well with my honey oak cabinets?

Possibly! Looks like you're already doing that, but I would get samples of *everything* you intend to incorporate into your bathroom first and put everything next to one another to make sure it looks good to you.

I've had wooden cabinets in my previous master bath (hickory) and they generally worked really well with grays - but I did regret a bit putting so much gray in that bathroom and not incorporating more white instead - that's why I mentioned my warning before re: your bathroom turning potentially too dark (you will also be able to see on the walls the gigantic 24"x48" tiles I was referring to earlier, and the hexagon tiles *I* used which I will never use again....)

suppose i use the white tile with light gray vein (next to the hexagon) on the floor, will it look all right to install a light gray long wood look tile with rectified edge on the tub walls?

Possibly - assuming the gray veining color matches the gray color in the wood-looking tile you want to use. Given your honey oak cabinets - I would probably incorporate no more than 2 additional light and neutral colors to the bathroom - e.g. white and light gray (adding black to the mix, e.g. with the "negative" hexagon tile and/or your hardware/trim would be great); so maybe the white-with-grey-veining tile for the floor, white quartz countertop (I personally like MSI's Arctic White), white walls (I'm using Behr's Sleek White as my go-to white - you can see it in the photo above too on the top part of the walls + ceilings), and either a white or gray (that matches the grey veining on the floor tile) tile for the tub surround.

None of those too current fads about to expire go with the traditional look of stained oak. Look at a traditional slate look tile, like Daltile’s Delegate in the black. Then everything above the floor level should be natural wood or a lighter color.

https://www.daltile.com/products/Stone-Look/Delegate/Black

Miramo in Pearl would be a good wall tile, as it is not stark in color, which works with the warmer woods much better than a true white would. Taj Mahal for the counters, and you’re done.

https://www.daltile.com/products/Mosaic/Miramo/Pearl 

Gray can work with honey oak in some ways, but need to bed careful or you’ll get s lot of cool blue- gray that emphasizes the orange undertones.

If her is a warm gray stone tile with a hint of rust or bronze, then a warm solid gray tub tile, that might work. And you’ll need to be bringing in countertop samples as well- likely more options for countertops than flooring but not sure. Then you’ll be able to lol at wall paint colors that work.

If you can afford ( without a huge stretch) something like the Ikea cabinets and like them, I wouldn’t rule that out just because you have loads of honey oak elsewhere. Because then no one would ever start updating anything, and a bath is not immediately visible from rest of house, so does not have the same issues as doing part of an open plan area. It would be better than painting the current cabinets, so I agree that if you’re not going to replace the style , probably just best to save $$ and keep wood finish. And also you might be able to get better functionality— but that depends on how the current cabinets work.

But, if you have a budget plan for refreshing several areas of your home and have decided this is best for the bath, on same principle that it’s not a high- visibility area, that’s fine.

Einav, thanks again for answering my questions in detail. Your previous master bathroom looks beautiful too. The wall is indeed gorgeous.

I have used MSI quartz counter top in my kitchen and will check out others in their huge showroom for my bathrooms. I’ll see if i can find the matching wood look tile to go with the floor. At least i have several optiond to think through now.

@HU-131248914 Thanks for your feedback and the links to the tile and quartz designs. I will get samples of these and check them out

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I agree that there are shades of grey that will not work well with the honey oak. I hear your argument on completely replacing the cabinets and closet door and window and other trims. It is very tempting. Can’t replace the main door into the bathroom though as all other nearby doors etc will clash. Not a big fan of painting the doors. So, do you think updating all woods inside the bathroom but leaving the main door alone will look OK?

Ikea is the only value priced source for that type of wood cab in the US. Plenty of flooring is coming in. But wood flooring isn't for your bath. I'm sticking with my rec to start here to start the update. You can, over time, continue to move forward. Every step and every dollar you spend will be to improve. Good luck.

Deb— I did forget that you may be keeping the door and wood trim stain. That would definitely be a problem, not just colors but wood grains. Not a good mix. So might have to go back to the drawing board.