Metro tiles - done to death?

[GiraffeNecked]

We've put metro tiles in our new bathroom - with one blank wall as paint.

Just read on another post that they are done to death - surely not? .

For some people they are classic, others are sick of them. 'Twas ever thus. If you love them that's really all that matters.

They are done to death, but they are still great looking tiles I think.

I'd still choose them over something more faddy, I think they've become "classic" status now.

Every TV makeover show seems to include them. I think they look like tiling in council toilet blocks.

I’ve never liked them. They’re too reminiscent of smelly old fashioned public lavs.
Each to their own, though. But they are/were a fashion, like grey all over everything, and every fashion dies the death sooner or later.

They’re just normal tiles.

They’re a classic - and one which I really like. Changing fads and fashions are so wasteful, just have what you like. I bet the “not done to death” alternatives date a lot faster.

A timely thread!

we are going to redo our bathroom next year and I have been looking at Metro tiles. I also think they have entered classic status

they seem to pop up a lot in Scandi interior decorating pictures which I like a lot

of course some people would say the Scandi thing has been done to death too but I have given up caring

I have metro tiles and love them, I think they are classic

I am planning white ones for my kitchen.

I redid our bathroom in them 10 years ago..was worried then they had had their day after a similar comment on Mumsnet 😂

@Tootsietoot

I redid our bathroom in them 10 years ago..was worried then they had had their day after a similar comment on Mumsnet 😂

I'm liking them, they aren't bevelled, and grey grout.

Sometimes wonder if it's all a bit 90s police cell. But they were rarely accessorised with pink fluffy towels.

I’ve just put them in my guest en-suite - navy in one, plain white in the other. I like them because they are quite subtle. They were inexpensive.

In the kids’ bathroom I’ve gone for herringbone marble, and that’s the one that people have reacted to as though I’ve gone wild and crazy and told me it will date!

My kitchen has cream metro tiles with grey grout, there’s nothing remotely police cell about it.

I wouldn’t have them because I don’t want my bathroom to look like the inside of the Rotherhithe Tunnel, and yes they’re done to death - but if you like them then that really is all that matters.

I put grey ones in my kitchen as they were cheap & it was only a small area, they look great in my opinion, I also don't think they are dated.
If you like them use them.

I love them but am also sick of them. Unsure what a good alternative is though.

I’ve never liked them. They’re too reminiscent of smelly old fashioned public lavs.

This is exactly how I feel about them! Or prison showers or something. Especially when they are the white with the dark grout!

I think it all depends on the style of your house. I've got them in a Victorian bathroom, where they look very good with a roll top bath etc. However, I've just renovated a modern property and have deliberately not used them there because they would look out of place.

@Tootsietoot

I redid our bathroom in them 10 years ago..was worried then they had had their day after a similar comment on Mumsnet 😂

inside of the Rotherhithe Tunnel did make me !

I do like metro tiles though, but maybe not a combination of bottle green and white!

I think they can look great with roll top baths and in warehouse conversions. The alternative is anything from Porcelanosa! Tiles in large format are to die for! Classy and chic at the same time. Lovely rustic finishes and even wood, stone, marble, Matt or glosss finishes. Definitely don’t date and not done to death.

I moved into a place in the early 90's that had just been done up with them, and I really liked them.

I still like them but had the feeling they might be a bit 'old' now. However I would prefer them to those little mosaic ones with sparkly bits that were in fashion a few years ago, and most certainly would get them rather than those hideous huge beige 90's hotel style ones.

I have looked at the walls in my current house and would love to replace the tiles with metro tiles. They lift a room.

@PresentingPercy

I think they can look great with roll top baths and in warehouse conversions. The alternative is anything from Porcelanosa! Tiles in large format are to die for! Classy and chic at the same time. Lovely rustic finishes and even wood, stone, marble, Matt or glosss finishes. Definitely don’t date and not done to death.

I think wood look tiles will date very badly indeed.

Done to death yes but still great neutral tiles? The alternative bathroom tiles seem to be nasty beige things or tiny mosaic tiles which have been done to death for centuries it seems!

I think wood look tiles will date very badly indeed

I agree. And I detest the enormous beige ones too. Who thinks beige is a good colour anywhere in their house? It sucks the joy out of everything.