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tile on tile on tile!? is this too much?

6 years ago

Hi everyone, appreciate the ongoing help as we finish our basement... We are looking at bathroom tile at the moment. I was debating doing number one for the floors, number two for the walls and floor of the shower, and number three along the lower half of the exterior walls but wondering if this is too much tile? Do the three appear to go together, or is this going to be too many grout lines? We will probably go with the larger format subway tile for number three instead of the smaller mosaic ones. I will attach the room mock up in comments.

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Skippack Tile & Stone

6 years ago

Without seeing your space, I see a lot of lines going on! If you like your inspiration photo, why not select things that are closer to that look? Change the 2x4 wall tile to 3x6, use it both for the shower walls and wainscoting. Use the hex on the shower floor only.

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Bri Bosh
Original Author
6 years ago
suezbell
6 years ago
My inclination would be to use #1 for the floor and either of the other two -- your favorite -- for the shower but not put any on the wall outside the shower.
Bri Bosh thanked suezbell
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I wouldn't use anything inside a shower with all the recessed edges that will be hard to keep clean. The big panels also look out of place to me, and likely won't fit exactly so you could end up with odd edge pieces. Either use a flat fan tile on all three walls, or some combo of fan and subway tile. If you keep the grout the same color as the tile it won't look too busy, and will give you much better function.
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Bri Bosh
Original Author
6 years ago
I'm very inspired by this photo, this will be a very infrequently used bathroom so I was also debating continuing our engineered hardwood floors into the bathroom...

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silviakunst
6 years ago
I don't see number one inside the shower ...you should stick with tiles ...then outside the shower you can switch to a different floor ...but I would keep it simple and not mix so many different sizes and colors ...make it Crisp and easy ...
Lorrie H
5 years ago
I would pick something different for the floor darker than tile #1. Agree you need the larger subway tiles for the walls. I love the inspiration photo and am considering using the gray tile with white grout instead of white subway and gray grout that I had planned.
AJCN
5 years ago
My comment is about your mention of having wood floors.

Normally wood floors in a bathroom are not recommended. However, we have hardwood floors in our powder room and master bath. They were here when we moved in. We haven’t ever had any damage, but it’s only used by us and we are fairly careful. If the bathroom will be used by guests, kids, etc, then you are probably upping the chance of damage. We like ours though and decided to keep them even when we remodeled.
Bri Bosh
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks everyone, this is how the bathroom turned out.
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User
4 years ago
#3 type tile becomes more popular and fashionable (so to say) as a backsplash. It is pretty functional and easy to maintain. #2 is good for the narrow areas where you need to extent the space visually.
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4 years ago
Technically speaking nobody should be advising someone to install a mesh tile in a wet area, if you want to be technically correct, install all tiles in a wet area with No mesh, if you are doubting what I just said, take a mosaic mesh tile, put it in a bucket of water for 5 minutes and then shake the mesh, and then take a photo, I challenge everyone to shake a tile mesh today that has Been in a bucket of water, you’ll understand an important aspect of tile, Have a great day
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Avanti Tile & Stone / Stonetech
4 years ago
Only if the mesh backing is paper. If it's held together by rubber or plastic....no problem.
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Symmetrical flooring
4 years ago
It’s not just paper, take a plastic mesh, put it a bucket of water, and then shake it, ask a Schluter rep by the name of Hugo Sanchez , he will tell you the exact same thing.

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