30 x 60 cm tiles Reason vs. Zeitgeist

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I like grout lines!
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Anyone who knows your washbasin believes that immediately :)
We don’t like grout lines that much. With 120 cm x 120 cm there are (for us) still enough grout lines left :)
Only at the transition living room/kitchen do 6 tiles meet in a star shape – for me a ‘work of art’
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In the end, it also depends on the overall picture: floor, pattern and furnishing style... Many tiles also live from the grout pattern...
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Our floor ‘lives’ from the surface texture, that is, from the tile pattern, less from the grout pattern. Too many grout lines would be disturbing there.

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Anything larger than 60x60 or similar could already be replaced with linoleum, since grout lines no longer play a role.

Seriously?

We decided on the tile format 60x40 and were also faced with the question "lengthwise or widthwise?". For this, I drew the tiles to scale in our floor plan... sometimes lengthwise, sometimes widthwise.. Anyone who knows our house knows what we decided on ;)

That very much depends on the style of the house, the layout of the rooms, and the furnishing. You can’t say that in general. My cousin had 80 x 80 tiles laid everywhere on the ground floor, and it doesn’t look good everywhere because the large formats lose their elegance when cut. In the hallway and bathroom, it looks – in my opinion – really bad.

Do you have time and inclination to elaborate a bit more? Your post sounds like a good assessment. We are planning to lay tiles throughout the entire house, all the same (probably a light wood decor), and I am grateful for any hints about what we could do wrong or right. I don’t want to follow the trend; it just has to look nice. ;-)

We decided on the tile format 60x40 and also faced the question "lengthwise or crosswise?" For this, I drew the tiles to scale into our floor plan... sometimes lengthwise, sometimes crosswise... Anyone who knows our house knows what we decided on ;)

I have a question about that: Do you lay the tiles in the direction of walking, that is, as you enter the door? I have the impression that this feels more "inviting" than if they are laid "crosswise," almost like a barrier or blockade. Or am I imagining things? And what is the effect of tiles laid diagonally?

We had decided on the tile format 60x40 and also faced the question "lengthwise or widthwise?". For this, I drew the tiles to scale in our floor plan... sometimes lengthwise, sometimes widthwise.. Anyone who knows our house knows what we decided on ;)

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! :) Are the photos available here and on the forum, and could you maybe link them?

Well, I don’t have that much expertise, just a lot of opinion :) Oversized formats only look good to me if they don’t have to be cut. Otherwise, you can simply see that the room couldn’t accommodate the format. Intended but not executed well. And I’m not a fan of wood-look tiles. It’s one thing to want the imitation – but also the concrete experience that such textured tiles are hard to clean. In my last rental apartment, there were such tiles in the hallway. I bought a steam cleaner just because of that light gray floor that always looked dirty. And I’m not usually obsessed with cleaning. I like the 30 x 60 format quite a bit in a modern single-family home. For me, the large formats fit better in modern villas with very large rooms. For our crooked old building, we’re using natural stone in the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen, laying it with minimal grout joints of 2 mm. And we’re using a very classic small format of 20x20 and 15x15 in the narrow hallway. At less than 60 square meters, that’s financially feasible too.