Backsplash advice
I'm looking for help for both my main bathroom and powder room. The main bathroom will be 6' x 7' and the powder room will be just 33.5" x 67". (We carved out a space under the stairs.)
. The porcelain tiles we were planning to use is Koru Apricot (pic from the manufacturer), on floors and in the tub surround. Tiles are 8" x 48".
Our fixtures will be a bit more basic/ordinary than in this pic, but we might use a paint colour like this for the painted wall. And this is the vanity light fixture we like (3 bulb version for main bathroom; 2 bulb version for powder room).
But I just realized that I will need some type of backsplash in the main bathroom and maybe in the powder room as well. My hubby and kids are pretty splashy when washing their hands, so it's not a question of whether they will splash, but how much.
For the main bathroom, my vanity will fill much of the wall area (but not all), and will likely go either all the way to the floor or most of the way. For the powder room, it might be smaller-scale, possibly attached to the wall.
There will be a medicine cabinet above each vanity. Something large with 3 sections above the main bathroom vanity (48") and a 24" medicine cabinet above the 24" vanity in the powder room.
Do I need a backsplash for the entire wall above my main bathroom vanity? Does the size of my tiles (8" x 48") change your thoughts at all?
My contractor thinks my powder room will feel too closed in if I do a backsplash in the powder room and suggested a vanity with a built-in backsplash. I haven't found a lot like that where I live in Canada, so my choices seem extremely limited (found 1 in glossy white, and the backsplash was only 2" high, which doesn't seem enough.) Just wondering if anyone has a cost-effective suggestion to protect my walls, and that would work with my floor tiles? Thank you!
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last yearThank you, @Patricia Colwell Consulting. It's a new bathroom, so there's nothing right now to show in the existing room except studs and subfloor and rough-in for the shower, sink, etc. (I think you make a great point about slowing down and thinking about the entire room. Unfortunately I don't have very much time to do that thinking in, as I have to make my flooring decisions within the next week and place my flooring order soon, as my contractors are starting drywall now and they say flooring installation will be next.)
I know the wood look tile isn't to everyone's taste but we do like it, so I'm looking for ideas that work with using this as our floor tile and tub surround tiles.
Beadboard is inexpensive, but I'm not sure it would look good with wood-look tiles. But adding another wall of wood-look tile behind the sink may be too much even for me (although my husband is fine with it, liking the idea of the bathroom looking like a sauna). I'm not sure what other backsplash options I can consider that might be cost-effective.
I'm attaching a pic to show the different areas that I could protect my wall above the vanity (not my vanity; just a sample pic).- Just the yellow area?
- Add the green area (there will likely be about 5-6" of wall between where the vanity ends and the tub begins)?
- The entire area of yellow and green and blue?
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