re tiling bathroom

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would love some advice from some MN style gurus - please!

We're currently re tiling the bathroom and have discovered we haven't bought enough tiles and cannot source them from anywhere.

We've got half way up the wall, using the creamy marbley tiles in a brickwork pattern, the question is, how do we finish it off?

We can get plain white tiles in the same size (30x25cm) and have bought some lovely mosaic tiles in creams/browns for a border.

The question is, should we A)tile half and half with a border in the middle?

Or B)use the cream ones up to two rows from the ceiling, use the border as a sort of picture rail and finish with two rows of the white?

Or C)use two rows of white in the middle of the room, with a border top and bottom, sort of like a band running around the room?

I'm hoping you'll all say either B or C, as it'll save us a fortune, but I'm worried it won't look right.

What do you think?

No budding Linda Barkers then? I might have to ask my DH

A i'm afraid, we ended up in a similar situation, it's still not finished because having bought the tiles i can't afford somebody to put them up.

Oh MMM, that's not what I wanted to hear But thank you for replying.

I think we've almost certainly decided to go with C, for the same reason - money! We just can't afford to spend another £200 on tiles.

Just praying it's going to look okay

We're having half of the walls tiled in our bathroom with the top half painted. Too expensive otherwise! Not sure how it'll look. The tiles are white except for a band of turquoise at the top and one wall all turquoise. The tiles are brick shaped ones...

Go with what you prefer not what you think should be stylish!

Igglybuff, that sounds lovely, turquoise is lovely in a bathroom. We'd definitely have done half tile/half painting if the walls hadn't fallen down when we took down the old 70's metal tiles. They were only up with sticky pads, so couldn't really tile on top of them!

I'm hoping it'll work out okay, the floor and lower walls will be creamy/beige and the ceiling and top part of the walls will be white, so it might (wishful thinking) make the room look a bit bigger. I'll have to add a photo to my profile once it's all done and you can let me know what you think (so long as you all love it like!)

Thanks it'll be a nice change from the orange tiles left by the previous owners......

However, I dread to think what the walls will be like when they do take the tiles down (old victorian house). Everytime we've had something done, we've uncovered horrors including unsafe gas fires, dodgy plumbing for the washing machine, asbestos walls

Your bathroom plan sounds nice - look forward to the pics

Orange tiles? What on earth were they thinking?

Well, just to update, the mosaic and white tiles are going on now and it's looking.....totally lush

Looks so good we might even get away with folk thinking we'd planned it that way!

Not just orange - orange marble effect!!!

No-one need know that you didn't plan it that way

ha ha iggly, they'll probably be en vogue this time next year.

When we moved in here the toilet cistern had a brown furry cover on it It was like a rather matted square teddy bear.

I've honestly never seen anything like it, I had to put rubber gloves on to take it off

Brown? Furry????? If I was greeted by that during a midnight loo trip, I'd be scared!