baseboard = wood. :-)

My travertine floors are trimed out with either granite or travertine, depending on the room (the family bathroom has granite trim on the shower so I"m using that as the baseboard. I like the look on the floor with the tile. I would think your slate look tiles would look just as nice, you'd just have to cut/have them cut to work for baseboard (so you have a finished edge on each piece). We ended up polishing our baseboards since they're natural stone...but the look would be just as nice with tile I would think.

Since when does bill answer???? WOOD?????

lol! thx bill and igloochic! you = v. helpful :)

Some of our bathrooms have the same wood baseboard as the rest of the house. Other bathrooms have the stone or tile cut to act as baseboards. We made a room by room decision on what would look the best.

Since when does bill answer???? WOOD?????

Since when doesn't someone tile all the WALLS!! LMAO

Seriously-- any time I've tiled a bathroom floor where the walls were to be painted, the baseboard was the same as throughout the rest of the house.

Ooh, that question just came up here and I'm so glad that was your answer Bill (especially since we already have enough painted wood basemolding to use in all three baths--I think)!

So if wall = tile + floor = tile, baseboard = x??? I never thought of getting anything other than wood baseboards throughout house, but can Bill (or anyone else) please solve for x? Thanks. Is there such a thing as a tile baseboard or do you just use bullnose 1 x 6 pieces, or chair rails, or what? Things I never thought about....

You just use bullnose, in most cases. Some til lines make a cove base for commercial applications, but for the most part, th bullnose is the usual trim piece of choice. Also, if you go into some of the higher end showrooms, you'll find prefabricated , sculpted marble base, as well, usually sold in 4' lenghts. Be prepared for sticker shock on the marble base, though.

Wood for sure!!

Many new homes have MDF baseboards, which is what I'll use in my new house too (mainly because they come in 14' lengths so there is less waste). Do not use MDF in the bathrooms though. MDF holds up great unless it is exposed to dampness, like at the bathroom floor (mopping) and around the kitchen window (splash from the sink). Ask me how I know. lol!!

Do not use MDF in the bathrooms though.

thank you!! I started reading your post, and was about to jump all over it!! :-)

Like, igloo, we use continue the tile up the walls as baseboard. We also cut into 4" strips and buff the exposed side. In our current house, the kids bath has 20" slate and the master 20" terrazzo tiles, both look great w/ the tile baseboards.
Robin

If doing a wood baseboard, do you use quarter round also? Thanks

No, not unless you want to.

Our floors are travertine and in the shower we used 3X6 tumbled marble. The walls are painted and we used the 3X6 that we used in the shower as the baseboard.

Since I am the person in charge of the mop at my house, I am always looking for ways to make my job easier. I also do most of the interior painting and especially dislike painting baseboards.

We just finished our master bath with a white marble-look ceramic tile. I requested the baseboard be replaced with the same tile as the floor. The tile was not exactly the same color all the way through body so we did not cut baseboard from the large tile, we used the 3"X12" trim pieces that match. I think it looks nice and gives the optical illusion of a larger floor. And I can mop all the way up to the baseboard without worry.

When we had tile installed in our large kitchen (4 years ago), I had the tile run up under the toe kick of the cabinets for the same reason...for ease in mopping. The rest of the kitchen has wood baseboards. I do not think I have had any visitor notice and we entertain alot.

For the larger kitchen which is open to our family room, I don't think I would consider tile baseboard because it would not match the rest of the open area. However I do like it very much in the small contained area of our master bath.