Anyone want to help me with bathroom tiles?

[juneau]

We're building a new house. Our bathroom tiles are sorted, but I've got to the point of saturation with the family bathroom (for our two boys), and the guest en-suite and I feel totally overwhelmed. I have so many things to decide and I just keep going round in circles with these bloody tiles.

Anyone have any tips or, ideally, a picture of my perfect bathroom so I can just copy it?

Any pointers at all? What kind of look do you want - traditional/modern? Do you care about the colours? Try here for ideas.

But that is probably just going to confuse you more. If you have been going round in circles, you must have ideas that you have been circling. Go with the first one.

Try looking at www.houzz.net

Great site for procrastination inspiration.

We've just gone for plain white boring tiles on the walls and a super duper patchwork tiled floor. Can't wait for the avocado suite to be gone.

Thanks guys. The idea I had is proving problematic because the two sorts of tiles I've chosen are so different (one in inches, the other in cm, so they don't really match up). Also, I worry that the look is dated and/or boring.

Our house is modern, but my taste is more traditional, I suppose. I love handmade tiles and colour, not endless beige, which is what most modern bathrooms seem to look like. Both rooms will contain a bath with shower over it, loo and sink. The wall colour will be creamy white. My idea was to have large white tiles with a smaller, colourful tile for the sink splash back and as bands of colour through the white tiles over the bath/shower.

Here you are, this is what you are after we have laccio in green. I think I have a bathroom pic on my profile.

We combined them with maranello in white (which is really a light being, the same sort of colour as the background of the laccio tiles)

having just double checked, yes I do have a pic on my profile but it is upside down and i can't change it

Those tiles are lovely kitsmummy. I love Italian and French tiles. Actually they might go better in the kitchen or the downstairs loo. Tiles are driving me mad - by FAR the hardest thing to pick. Everything else has been pretty easy.

Um....not going to help here....but really, really think first what are you going to put on the floor. Nothing more frustrating to plan the bathroom perfectly and then realise you have no idea what to put on the floor.

Next time I do a bathroom I starting with finding a fabulous floor (love Harvey Maria tiles -very funky) and then white tiles and an accent to match the floor.

I really like those tiles too kitsmummy - I am hoping to use them for my walk in shower but am undecided as my ensuite is small and I am wondering if the pattern will be too overwhelming.

The tiles does look absolutely beautiful in your bathroom - do they need any special maintenance/sealing etc? Did you find the maranello a better colour match than the laccio base tiles?

Well, we saw these in the Chepstow head office and ordered them before they were actually in the country or on the website, and at the time they didn't have the laccio base tiles in. However, the maranello white is a great match as the base of the tiles is more dirty cream than white really and the maranello white isn't really a white!

Have you seen them in real life? Much nicer in the flesh, so to speak, than online as they have a lovely feel to them, almost like a concrete tile base rather than glazed and polished.

They don't need sealing either. However, I'm not sure I'd have the maranello on the floor again, it's bloody murder keeping the grout clean and light coloured!

Just make sure the tiles on the floor are big.

Less grout to keep clean.

Floor tiles are sorted - we've gone for white gold limestone - it's being laid as I type. Need to visit Mandarin Stone showroom next week to look at those ceramic tiles though - I really like the Tuscan ones.