Patterned Bathroom Floor Tiles.

[msmorgan]

For the main bathroom I'm thinking of having encaustic look floor tiles, possibly the Fired Earth Abbey Waverley tile, or British Ceramics Devon patterned tile, they're both a grey and white pattern.

I've wanted a patterned bathroom floor tile for ages but they seem to be quite popular at the minute, do you think they will look dated in a couple of years?

We're having white metro tiles halfway up the wall and painted above, an Art Deco/1930's style basin and loo with a freestanding bath, either a boat bath or slipper.

The other option for the floor would probably be an oak floor effect Karndean.

Thanks for any replies, I'll add some pics when I get on the laptop, can't seem to do it on the iPad.

I'm almost definitely having white metro tiles (the bevelled edge ones) on the walls, just half tiled then a fully tiled walk in shower.

I might just tile the bath and shower wall and have tongue and groove on the other walls but not sure if that would be too many different things?

I know I want a grey coloured patterned floor, just keep changing my mind on which tile, I've ordered some samples so hopefully I can make a decision.

I do agree that tongue and groove, patterned tiles and metro may be a bit too much unless it's a huge bathroom. I made the mistake of typing vintage bathroom into Pinterest, oooooo such lovely things.

I should probably stick to just using tongue and groove in the downstairs loo and ensuite.

I've just put vintage bathrooms in Pinterest and there are some lovely ones. I'd been searching classic bathrooms, quite similar stuff comes up, my style must be classic/vintage? Ha ha.

Bit of a silly question, but what age is the house? We're looking into Edwardian styles because that's the age of the house we're buying and we want to do "original" features wherever possible. To my mind, if a look is in keeping with the house overall, it'll be less likely to date.

And YY to the PPs' thoughts about "who cares if it 'goes out of style' - as long as you love it!"

And right there with the "Fired Earth" is out of my price range - >pout

Fired earth out of my budget as well unless just buying about 6 tiles for above a sink. Some are so gorgeous I want to just buy a few and put them in a frame. The Winchester Tile company does similar if you've not looked there yet

It's a 1930's semi. We've gutted it and added a side extension but I've made sure DH preserved any original features it has.

Compared to earlier houses or the arts and crafts style 30s houses, there aren't that many features. We've kept the wooden pelmets above the windows, the original doors upstairs (downstairs are vile glass 60s which we are replacing with 30s style), the lovely alcove cupboards in the bedrooms and I'm sanding and staining some of the boards.

I'm really upset about having to replace all the original windows. They are beautiful leaded and stained glass bays, one of the things I loved most about the house. We are having to replace with UPVC (as nice as possible UPVC but I'm still not happy about it). I've had joiners look at the windows and they have said the wood is too far gone to repair, some of the glass would need repairing too. I had a quote to repair/replace just the front windows and it was as much as the extension has cost so that was a definite no from DH.

I am trying to replace the front door and sidelight (again vile 60s) with either a reclaimed original or having a timber 30s style door made and hopefully using some of our original leaded lights for the glass.

Anyway, I've rambled a bit but basically, although I don't want to recreate a 1930s look exactly I do want the house to look quite classic/traditional.

I hadn't heard of The Winchester tile co. I'll have a look, thanks.

We went to have a look at some tiles for the shower in the en suite, DH has very different taste to me, safe to say he won't be choosing anything!

That's a shame about the windows.