Subway Tile Walls/Hex Floor, Wood Baseboards and Chair Rail?
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jtb2004
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Subway tiles on the wall and ________ on the floor.
Comments (8)Great pics, thanks. Bill, at a recent visit to a tile shop I did see silver travertine and I immediately thought what a great mix between travertine and marble, so it is definately an option. Sandn -- Love your bathroom look. The tile is so clean and fresh looking. What subway tile did you use? I love the trim tile off the floor, it really breaks up the wall and is a great detail. Brickton -- that is a very similar look to what we want. We are having a white vanity built that will look a lot like the Pottery Barn Newport double vanity, but it will be a little more contemporary looking. To warm it up we're going to fabricate a wood counter using either butcherblock or reclaimed wood. Every contractor has bristled at this, but our cabinet maker said he's doing a lot of reclaimed wood vanities and I think it will warm up the space. Thanks again for the responses, if you see anything else send it my way....See MoreHelp! Bathroom baseboard advice desperately needed.
Comments (2)Just came across a thread with advice from Bill Vincent, as well as some amazing photos of a reverse marble ogee edge he created. No answers to my question needed. But alas, I now have more wonderful ideas from you all. Wondering if my GC is going to figure out how to block my access to these forums!...See Moreold house; uneven floor - bathroom/subway tile...
Comments (4)Instead of running the narrower subway all the way to the floor, have you considered a wider ("taller") tile for the first course, to simply act as a baseboard or transitional piece from floor-to-field? Doesn't have to be an actual baseboard type of tile, or even a contrasting tile. The tile can be the same color as the subway should you prefer it to blend. It can be a simply 6" or 8" square field tile from the same manufacturer. As you know, blending colors may help with hiding a discrepancy, contrasting colors can accentuate it. On the flip side, you could separate the base from the field with a liner or some other detail that melds with details you have higher on the wall, at the chair rail for instance. Again, if the liner contrasts, it may accentuate. A basic 6" square tile, or to keep the subway shape, a 6" tall rectangle, would absorb the floor slope better than a "shorter" tile like your current subways. A 6" tile going from 5" to 6" would hide the discrepancy better than a small subway field tile going from 2" to 3". An 8" tile from 7" to 8" might be even better. If you were to use a true base cove tile like a sanitary cove base, use a basic sanitary instead of a shouldered sanitary, as the shoulder will be cut off due to the slope and that could create lippage or padding out issues as you go down the wall. Sometimes I've even used a taller painted wood baseboard to transition from a sloped floor to the field tile on the wall. An 8" tall wood baseboard scribed from say, 7" to 8" to hide the floor slope, with cap and base detailing, would pretty much hide any height discrepancy from the slope/scribing. The easiest and least expensive "all tile" solution would probably be a basic 6" square tile, scribed and cut from 6" to 5" as needed....See MoreLooking for pics with Carrara and subway tile combination
Comments (5)Sheesh, Casey - that is stunning! Do you have a master post with more pix and descriptions? Soapy, your idea sounds great too. If you go to houzz and search subway basketweave, you will see some beautiful examples....See Morestie9790
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14 years agoBill - do you know if there is ever a problem with expansion/contraction with having the wood baseboard between the tiled floor and tiled wall? Do we need to leave a small gap?
There'll be a major problem if you don't caulk those joints instead of grouting them.
Could I do the baseboard this way (with the filler strip)? It sounds pretty good and easy to do:
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bath/msg032019304534.htmlYes.
I ordered 2x6 chair rail through HD
Was it chair rail or bullnose? Bullnose will be a flat piece of tile that's 2"x6" in size, and has one rounded edge. Chair rail would be the top piece in the picture below (also Dall 100 white):
kay_from_ca
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Circus Peanut
14 years agoThis may come in too late to be helpful, but I couldn't afford any chair rail at the time of my own DIY bathroom renovation using the same Olean white gloss tile. Instead, I used salvaged wooden trim to match the original house trim (craftsman; douglas fir). My floors are fir also, so I used the white sanitary cove instead of baseboard, fearing just too much wood in one tiny space.
To mix things up a little I did two rows of "chair rail"; it has really helped to have somewhere to place the towelbars etc without messing with my tile, and it gave me a way to design a new built-in medicine cabinet that fits stylistically.
Here's a ton o' pics, in random order:
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