'Weave' Stone Tile for an Elegant Bath
Basketweave Mosaics Add Style and Dimension to a Tile Floor
Debbie Snider
March 18, 2011
Houzz Contributor.
For a classic high-end look for your bathroom, consider using stone mosaic basketweave tile on the floor. It adds elegance as well as visual and tactual texture. This simple pattern is created with rectangles and squares and has the illusion of a woven surface. The mosaics come polished or honed and are mounted on 12" x 12" mesh sheets for ease of installation. Prices are around $20 and up per square foot.
This photo shows how polished basketweave tile can look both woven and like a dotted pattern, depending on how the light hits it. The shiny surfaces of the individual pieces have a wonderful reflective quality. Popular stone combinations are Cararra marble with gray or black squares, or "dots."
An entire floor covered with basketweave exudes luxury and timelessness.
The dark gray border around the perimeter of this room picks up the color of the dots and serves as a transition between the floor and a wainscot of coordinating stone subway tile.
Here is a warm-tone basketweave mosaic in honey onyx with black dots. The small pieces and the many grout lines provide traction underfoot, making it perfect for a shower floor. It is shown with a light travertine tile.
This bath has been a Houzz favorite. The blue-gray painted cabinetry with honey toned accents is a beautiful color combination. Looks like it was designed to go with this honey and blue stone basketweave tile with blue macauba marble dots.
Here is a closeup view of the floor. Notice the walls are covered in a matching stone. Blue macauba tile borders the perimeter.
Your choice of colors will affect the overall feel of the room. Here, the dark black dots jump out at you, or advance, when paired with light Cararra marble.
Basketweave tile looks very different when dark stone is paired with light dots. This is pistachio, a limestone embedded with tiny fossils, paired with a white stone called Thassos. Don't the dots seem to recede?
This one, pistachio with black dots, neither advances nor recedes.
Here, the dots are the same color. The effect is true basketweave.
If your budget does not allow for an entire floor of basketweave, use it in small doses. In this bath, it is featured in a small "rug" and shower niche detail.
This sage basketweave echoes the colors of the wall tile, but is a smaller scale pattern.
Tip: When mixing or combining patterns, vary the scale for a pleasing look. Similar scale patterns compete with each other and are not easy on the eye.
Tip: When mixing or combining patterns, vary the scale for a pleasing look. Similar scale patterns compete with each other and are not easy on the eye.
Basketweave is not so common in contemporary baths, but it works very well here in all-black polished marble.
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Hi Shannon,
There is a huge variation in price on Italian Carrara Basketweave. Retailers "traditional brick and mortar" are generally $20SF and higher. They have showrooms and most buy from a distributor so have the cost of a showroom plus the cost of buying from a distributor.
A company like ours can sell Carrara Basketweave for $11.75 a square foot and Free Shipping, we do not have a showroom and as we buy direct from Italy we do not have the cost of buying from a distributor.
When buying online, from us or anyone. I would recommend getting a sample and at the very least pictures of the lot before it ships out to you. Then you know what you will be receiving.
Bianco Carrara Basketweave $11.75 a Square Foot and Free Shipping available in Honed and Polished.
Carrara Bianco Gray dot Basketweave (called wide format basketweave) Mosaic Tile $11.75SF
Big Basketweave 1.5" x 3" with Bardiglio Gray dot available online from The Builder Depot for $11.75SF in Honed and Polished.
Collection of Basketweave products from $10.95 a Square Foot.
I love the look of the weave with the darker squares. The light squares throw off the woven effect for me.