Why do you ”need” to change the floor? It’s perfectly fine for the rest of the ”safe” choices. Just changing the floor isn’t going to fix the blah.

Why are you changing the floor? What are you trying to do with the paint color on the walls?

What is the inspo pic you have in mind?

We need info , I use 12 x24 tile in small bathrooms often it also goes on the shower walls I usually use a stacked pattern The choice keeps things simple in s all space IMO and fewer grout lines on the floor and shower walls

You can use larger tiles, but be thoughtful about how they're laid out to take advantage of the size and not make it looked chopped up. You can also use 12 X 12 again in an offset pattern instead of a grid. Hexagons are popular now too. Unless there's damage we're not aware of, you might just need a good steam clean of the existing to help you like them again. If you do replace your floor, think about the vanity. Is it an older, shorter one? If it is, and you don't have shorter people in your household for whom it's a good size, maybe it's time to replace it as well.

We have a small bath as well and we used 12x24 tiles hoping to make it feel less choppy and small. We’ve been happy with the larger tiles in fact, we used the same size in our even smaller guest bath

Thanks everyone. Floor is damaged so needs replacing. Vanity is low but replacing it means big project since its custom and mirror comes doen to it, and corian counter matches tub surround trim. Dont have full redo in me at the mkment so just doing floors and paint.

Waste of effort and money. Buy a pretty bath runner, I can't even see "damage" and it can't be a flooding issue

Here's a couple of options from Home Depot that would look great with the counter and existing fixtures. The first pic is an 18 x 36" tile. Home Depot has a flooring visualizer that's fun to play with. You select a flooring, upload your room pic and it does the work for you.

Keep in mind if you replace the floor now but deal with the vanity later - there will not be tile beneath it so you will need to stay in the same footprint as the current one, which might not be a big deal just something to consider (it might be a custom size)

I don't think doing this piecemeal is a good idea. Replacing tile floors is messy, disruptive, and could affect the rooms adjacent to or below this one. It also could compromise any waterproofing, especially near the toilet, with all the banging that would be necessary to replace the floor. Do you have cracked tiles? Grout coming loose? You could address those issues separately and save the big money and effort on a renovation down the road.

I’d go ahead and replace the flooring and enjoy it now, unless you plan on totally redoing the bathroom with the next 5-6 yrs. The toilet should be removed before tile installation and then reinstalled so it sits on top of the new flooring. If you find a vinyl tile that could potentially be installed over the old tile, so you wouldn’t have to remove it.

Perhaps there is damage we can't see, but I only see one tiny chip on the tile.

I took up a bathroom's worth of tile this year and it was doable, but very dusty and messy. It caused lots of dust and tracked dirt in the surrounding rooms.

If there is a tiny chip, I would buy some porcelain touch up paint and give it a dab to disguise the problem.

Then, use a grout refresh/paint and put on your favorite podcast.

The area between the tile and tub may need a fresh bead of caulk.

All in, you can do this for under $50.

I like Jan's idea for a pretty runner - treat yourself to a trip to Home Goods after your refresh for a runner and some new hand towels because you saved yourself a bundle!

You may be able to put a LVP floor system over this if you pull the toilet, and it may be thin enough that you don't have to cut the bottom of the bathroom door.

The problem about not doing anything until you can do everything, is that maybe then you don't ever do everything and then eight years from now you still take a bath and stare at the chipped floor. Especially if there is nothing all that wrong with anything else.

(My house is part of a row, and there are a number of things that really involve the neighbor on each side because it's in common. The neighbor to one side of me is "going to get around to" this or that and in the eleven years I have lived in this house...Nothin'. No action whatsoever in a decade. It's only my business because we share a property line. They acually said one time "Well we actually started that, so I just need to finish it." Then they said "Yeah about 5 years ago I started." And it's been 5 years since they said that.)

Why change entire floor for a tiny chip only you notice? What I notice isn’t the chip, it’s the filthy grout. Clean the grout and see what a big change that makes. Also, the aqua wall paint doesn’t look like it goes with the blue laminate, but monitors don’t show true colors. Porcelain tile adhesive is strong, be prepared for doing some unintended damage to the wall board behind the tile baseboard, the floor underlayment, the vanity toe kick, the base of the tub.

floor is damaged how?

bring in a baseboard if you do replace.

doing a more modern tile won't work in that bathroom. you could try an 18x18 plain tile in a dark charcoal. (or even a 24X24 tile. i've used that size in a bathroom like yours. I wouldn't do the 12X24 because it will highlight the elongation of that room)

try a 24x24 terrazzo-like porcelain tile like Emser Terazio. abail at home depot or lowes

I don't love a lot of LVP, but I am going to be doing a relatively inexpensive small kitchen for someone and the adjacent areas are wood floor which we could only match if we refinished everything.

Anyway, I just ordered samples of Mannington Adura "Villa" 18" square in Sandstone (pale grey white), Cement (medium grey) and Coal (dark grey). Maybe something like that would work.

We replaced 12x12 in our tiny master bath with 12x24 and love it especially in the super small shower stall. if a bigger redo is in your future buy a few extra tiles for changes or repairs.

I used 24" x 24" floor tile in a 7' x 6' powder room, so I wouldn't be afraid to use larger tiles in a small bathroom.