What size floor tiles should I use: 24x 24 or 12 x 24 or hardwood?

last year

In this room should I tile or hardwood? If I tile this is the tile I plan to use white porcelain with light gray veining. If I tile I do t know whether to use 24 x 24 sized tile or 12 x 24 sized tile. Please help.

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K R

last year

It looks like bathroom tile to me, and it appears you’re putting it in a living room/sitting room of some kind? Hardwood would be a better choice.

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
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I think 12 x24 tile is more modern looking than square but maybe share a bit more info as to your style and the spaces you are putting this in. Are those wood look tiles ? If so then no to to them they are a dated look but i need info
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kandrewspa
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What is on the floor in the adjacent room? I agree with the previous commenter who said what you're considering looks like bathroom tile. The other thing you might consider in that type of room is a slate-look porcelain tile.
shirlpp
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What room is this?
donnaador
Original Author
last year
This room is my home office and is adjacent and open to my family room and then kitchen. From these comments it appears 12 x 24 is better. I am more traditional but like white clean minimal functional spaces. The picture of what appears to be hardware is probably tile but I would be using hardwood and not tile that looks like hardwood. I did use this sand tile in my bathrooms and love so definitely don’t want to use tile that looks like bathroom tile in this room. The room has two walls of windows so thought bright white tile with the light gray veining would match the other areas I tiled as well as give it a sunroom feel even though it’s not a sunroom. Thank you for all your replies!
donnaador
Original Author
last year
Would the 24 x 24 squares make it look less like bathroom tile or just for hardwood? Thank
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shirlpp
last year
Are you using this tile in the other areas. You're saying it's opened to other areas(w/o a door), so you really want to be consistent.

IMO the pattern of the 24x24 looks better than the 12x24.
donnaador
Original Author
last year
I used the 12 x 24 tile (same sublime natural matte from Happy Floors) in all three of my bathrooms and laundry room. If I use this tile in my office I would stop in the middle of the doorway (no door) and add schluter. It opens into family room which is currently carpeted. I have hardwoods in kitchen, dining room and entry and plan to sand and carry the hardwood adjacent to this room, removing the carpet that is there now. Thank you for reply. This is so hard and if I am doing any more tile I want it done before hardwood happens. I think the 24 x 24 would make it different than the other rooms using the same tile. I would still be able to use the extra tile (3 boxes of 12 x 24) around the edges because the room is not a perfect square and order the rest of the room 24 x 24? I just don’t want it to look like I used bathroom tile in my home office. That is definitely not what I am going for.
donnaador
Original Author
last year
This is what it looks like from family room.
donnaador
Original Author
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This is from kitchen looking into the family room and the room I am thinking about tiling.
shirlpp
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It really would look nice with the flow of the hardwood into your office. However, it is only opened to the family room via a doorway.

What is to the right and left of your office?
donnaador
Original Author
last year
Nothing. There are two walls left is wall & then door into the downstairs bathroom, right is wall.
donnaador
Original Author
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This is what the entry looks like into bathroom
shirlpp
last year
That floor on the left of your entry into bathroom is hardwood?
donnaador
Original Author
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I used this tile in my laundry room off the kitchen.
donnaador
Original Author
last year
And in the downstairs bathroom. Right now carpet but will remove carpet and put hardware in the rooms downstairs where I have carpet. Just on fence about my home office (sunroom?) tile or hardwood.
eld6161
last year
Hardwood with an area rug.
shirlpp
last year
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Since you have hardwood in all of those connecting spaces, you need hardwood in the sunroom/office.

Hands down hardwood in the office!
donnaador
Original Author
last year
Thank you all who replied. I think hardwood sounds like way to go.