This should have been thought of before the tiling started. Can you move the outlet up?

I thought we had it figured out. The tile guy said he’s seen it both ways, stopping at the window sill or extending up it.

My bath is from the 1930s and the tile goes about six inches above the window. I like it like that.

I would avoid having switch plates in the tile, if I could.

Here is one with tile just above the window sill.

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And one several inches higher.

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Would you say the 1/3, 2/3, or full Wall wainscoting rule is obsolete or doesn’t necessarily apply in this situation?

These are the windows. one is tiled and just needs painting. The other has the schulter in place but no tiles yet.

Your approach doesn't bother me at all, especially with giant tiles like that. On to the next crisis! :)

If possible, tile so that the outlet is above the tile, if not, then the whole outlet needs to be inside the tile as it would in a kitchen backsplash.

Those are big tiles! I would not go higher as you will have a cut tile that doesn't match any other horizontal line in the room.

If you had wanted to go higher, then I would have started with a full size tile on the bottom, but that would have needed some accurate and tricky cuts to fit around the window.

@chispa, yea, to fix it now, the only thing I can think of is to make the window walls full tile walls.

Someone else suggested adding a trim tile above the Schulter trim and carry that around the room.

@design girl, thank you for that tip. I would have had no clue how to tile around the switch.

@houssaon, thank you for the photos. I can't believe I never noticed the wainscoting line around windows. If you had shown me those pictures before this question came up, my untrained eye wouldn't have seen the difference.

@acm, thank you. it's so funny these things are crises. each decision is so expensive, it's a lot of pressure.

What if I trimmed out the windows with casing under the window sill and the other three sides? That seems to me that it might embed the window in the tile a bit better. So it doesn't look like it is floating on top.

It worked out that I have time to sleep on this over the weekend.

The unfinished bathroom, I could ask him to bring the tile up higher (if that's a good idea)?

But the bathroom with the set tile, I could 1. ask him to make it full wall, 2. leave as is and trim the window with wood casing, 3. leave the big, set tile and add trim tile above the schulter trim and follow the trim tile around the room, 4. trim window with casing and add a longer window sill that extends to the big tile so it would be a shelf as well as a sill, 5. just leave as is and forget about it

is there trim that's made to match that oversized tile? because it doesn't really seem worth it if you have to cut tiles and add edging...

No there isn’t one. We used schulter trim jolly on the edges.

I’m leaving it as is