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choosing a bathroom tile

last year

Hello! I need help choosing a tile for my bathroom. Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you!

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    last year

    I assume just the floor of the bathroom. I like 12 x24 porcelain for bathroom floors and actually shower walls too. I see a tile floor in the shower can I see that close up . I assume that is a refelection I am seeing of the light I am a bit confused as to what exactly you want help with maybe be a bit more explicit .

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    For a cohesive look, one tile is often chosen for the floor and shower walls, but I see a textured varigated color tile for the shower which obviously won't work for the floor. You've also got a pebble shower floor so you've already got a second tile with texture/color variation. You'll need a plain, low contrast floor tile since the other two tiles have some drama/higher maintenance look. Hard pass on the sample floor tile shown in your first photo.


    I'd try to find a matching plain, non-textured tile in the same colorway as the shower walls by checking that same brand. Look for something in the same size (?12x24 on the walls?) Do I see a third flat tile (in a thin rectangular shape) as a border inside the corner of the shower and on the curb? Why was this done? It's hard to tell in the pics if it's the same textured tile or a flat tile. If flat, then repeat that for the floor in a larger size. Match the grout to the tile for a low contrast look.


    Your curb should've been a solid piece as tile shouldn't be used on the flat top of the curb. Is this a DIY?

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    This shower was from the previous owner. I dislike the pebble shower floor and the wavy/textured shower wall, but it’s not in my budget to re-do everything at the moment. I love the look of black and white mosaic tile, but I know it will clash with the current shower. So my question is should I use the tile I love, and just wait until it’s within my budget to re-do the shower, or try to find a tile that matches the current shower so it’s not an eye-sore for the time being.

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    I'd do something that blends the wall tile color and the existing shower floor colors together and then save the money by not needing to redo the shower floor later.

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    Changing the wall color has made a big difference in the room! Did the prior owners really paint the room a peachy color???!!


    Question - how long do you think it will be before you are ready to do a full renovation of the bathroom? Your answer to this question really impacts what I would do if it was my bathroom.


    Did you tear out real wood floors in order to put tile in instead? The reason I'm asking is that if you are planning on doing a reno in the future in order to have a bathroom like your inspiration photo, I would have just left the wood floor until I was ready to do a total renovation.


    While most bathrooms don't have real wood (or even engineered wood) flooring in a full bath, I do know a couple people who have it in their bathrooms. My daughter has solid white oak floors in both of her full bathrooms - her home was built in the 40's - and the wood floors in the home are all original.


    She has little ones - and uses a rug by the tub to protect the wood. The other person that has wood flooring ran the same wide plank engineered wood flooring throughout the entire primary suite. His children are all grown up - so, he is the main user of the bathroom. It looks beautiful with the honed marble tile wainscoting + the freestanding tub (black on the outside - it's really cool looking). He's had it installed for about 8+ years - and it looks like the day it was installed.


    My point is that you could have kept the wood flooring and just saved up for your full renovation. However, if it was a vinyl wood plank, I probably would have torn it out (I don't like vinyl type flooring - however, I haven't seen any of the new LVP in person - and I'm sure it makes sense in some homes).


    Anyway - it's ripped out now - so, back to figuring out what to install on your bathroom floors!


    Are you able to provide better photos of the tile in the shower (walls and floor)? Add some closer photos + more light (it appears that the room doesn't have any natural light). Bring in a lamp and take the shade off (make sure the light doesn't have a warm light bulb). If you do this, you will be able to post photos that are more accurate representation of the true colors of the tile + the texture pattern on the wall tile. One of my guest bathrooms has no windows (I hate that) - when I was selecting materials when renovating the bathroom, I put a few lamps (without shades) in the bathroom in order to see how the true colors of the materials (the shower tile is Bedrosian Cloe White which has several shades of "white" mixed together).


    I am planning on adding either a skylight or a solar tube in the near future, so it was important for me to be able to see what everything looked like in "daylight."


    Is there any way that your realtor could find out what the name/brand is of the tile installed by the sellers? It seems like the shower was redone fairly recently before selling - maybe the shower tile has a coordinating floor tile that is still available (if your planned reno won't be in the next couple of years - if it is, then I would consider doing something else for your flooring).


    Sorry for such a long post!

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    Thank you this is helpful! We took out the wood flooring in the bathroom because we replaced the existing rose stained ash floor with white oak throughout the entire house, and I did not want to put wood flooring in a bathroom. I will take more photos of the shower and post later. You are correct there is no natural light.

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    If you want to redo the shower in the next 5 years, I might consider a good vinyl floor right now. But don't do something that clashes with the shower, no matter how much you love it. Things happen, renos get postponed, and the clash will annoy you every day. It will make you hate the exisitng shower that much more.