Shower room - fully tile or half tile?

[ThisCatCanHop]

We have a very small shower room that we’re doing from scratch as part of a loft conversion. It’s very small - think maybe 1.6 x 1.7 m. Ceiling is a decent height. I originally planned that we’d tile it to the full height round the shower and the heated towel rail (to avoid wet towels rubbing on painted areas) and then to window sill height round the rest of it. But the plasterer has told me we’d be much better fully tiling it.

I don’t think it will make a massive difference to the cost (but will obviously affect it) but I’m concerned it could make the room really dark. It’s a north facing shower room with a small window. We’re going for light blue/aqua tiles and I thought we’d need some white to break it up.

I previously considered fully tiling it and just using blue tiles in the shower and as a sink splashback but can’t find a matching white tile in the same size/from the same range.

Any thoughts?

These look good and modern. No splash back for sink at all in one.

@TizerorFizz , are those actually tiles or panels?

I could see the joins!

These are definitely tiles. The pale one is from a stone supplier. So probably slabs. The other one is an example of painting.

Me too but some panels are made to look like tiles! Thanks for the suggestions.

@ThisCatCanHop Yes I know panels can look like that but the idea was also to show what fully tiled can look like. I also like textural tiles which aren’t glossy.