Bathroom flooring!

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Am desperate to find beautiful bathroom flooring. Thing is, marble seems to tricky to maintain and I want low maintenance materials (and not be worried about staining etc).

What flooring did you buy and what would you recommend? Am going for a fairly light-feminine take on the Edwardian look (light colours)

(I have a v healthy budget! Also don’t want “wood” looking flooring as doesn’t suit the room, or anything that looks too plastic)

You can get marble effect vinyl flooring.

I used to have Karndean flooring in my last house. I loved it. Looked great, easy to clean, robust.

Adding to say the e modern ones don’t look plastic - they’re not all high gloss pretend tiles à la the 80s!

I’ve just put a grey concrete effect in my bathroom and it doesn’t look plastic at all.

Go and stroke some in a showroom. Got mine from Tapi.

Antico or any decent tiles from Porcelanosa. Use large format with little grout needed. Easy to clean.

Another vote for karndean or Amtico. Yes I get it's 'fake' but it lasts forever, cleans easily, isn't freezing cold and nothing much breaks if you drop stuff on it. You don't have to get fake anything. Just look at all of the options. I've just had a navy blue floor fitted which with my bathroom tiles looks fab.

If you have a healthy budget what about tiles with underfloor heating? Get exactly what you want. Tiles shouldn't stain. Look at fired earth absolutely beautiful.

We’ve just replaced our ensuite floor with terrazzo tiles from Ca’ Pietra.

I have these in grey, I love them:
https://www.clayandrock.co.uk/ci-000154-cotehele?colour=grey-grey

But - stating the obvious - tiles are unforgiving if you drop anything, and cold (which i like).

I have Galaxy Granite. After the grout dried the tiler sealed the whole thing even though each tile was already sealed. It's 18 this year and still looks great (the suite has been changed in that time but the floor has remained the same). Love it.

I've got Harvey Maria checkerboard LVT tiles. It comes in a range of colours - I have lught blue and off white.

Thank you!! That’s so helpful :) would be getting underfloor heating so probably avoid tiles (good tip!)

would be getting underfloor heating so probably avoid tiles (good tip!)

Eh? No-one has said to avoid tiles with underfloor heating. A couple have suggested it.

We have tiles with underfloor heating and I hate them. The floor has too much movement in it so the grout has cracked and I am really worried about dropping something on them. I wish I had used marmoleum instead. It's old school linoleum made from oil and wood pulp. It smells lovely and is very hard wearing and sustainable.

Tiles and underfloor heating are the ideal combination surely? Our bathroom is lovely and toasty.
We have an Edwardian house and designed the bathroom in keeping with that. Burlington sink, toilet, back to wall roll top bath, brassware that is brushed brass, a very traditional look. We have these on the floor but probably too dark for the look you want.

That sounds like terrible fitting, we have tiles with underfloor heating and so do PIL and there's no movement in either

It's an old house with very wonky floors so I think the fitting was extremely difficult and that is why there are issues. But if I had thought about it beforehand, I would have chosen something different.

We have Amtico. Very happy with it