Is it recommended to have a bathroom and toilet with few wall tiles?

  • Erstellt am 2023-12-20 09:52:15

netzplan

2023-12-25 10:46:16
  • #1


I let my wife lead on this. She wants tiles as large as possible, with almost no grout (i.e. rectified) and preferably in the same color tone as the tile. (That won’t be so easy, because the grout changes, or darkens, over time)

She even wants to lay the tiles in a "running bond" pattern to make it look more harmonious. Straight lines. And also the same tiles (in the same format) for the walls. (where the same tile comes in the formats 30x60). For the floor, there are 80x80 or 90x90.

It’s not that cliché. Actually the better way is for wife and tiler to talk to each other. Then it depends who is more dominant in the conversation :-)
 

sysrun80

2023-12-25 17:11:56
  • #2
If it doesn't necessarily have to be tiles, there are other options. We don't have any tiles in the house at all.

For example, the guest bathroom that is not yet finished.

 

11ant

2023-12-25 18:12:35
  • #3
Not only the bathroom, the post itself is apparently not finished either: you didn't describe exactly what can be seen there instead of the non-tiles. Is that latex paint or some other garage floor coating?
 

sysrun80

2023-12-25 19:05:17
  • #4
Hatta right :) It is a coating in concrete look. I am not sure if I am allowed to mention names here. The substrate is prepared like for tiles, then applied twice, sanded and sealed.
 

Bertram100

2023-12-25 23:31:25
  • #5

Large tiles make the room look smaller if the room is of normal size. Only in spacious rooms does the size of the tiles give a "large" impression. The reason it sometimes looks awkward in rooms of normal size is that only one and a half or two tiles fit side by side. Our brain immediately recognizes this for what it is, and it doesn't look like "a lot" or "big." I have yet to see a nicely tiled bathroom floor with such large tiles.
 

11ant

2023-12-26 01:35:21
  • #6
I’m putting a big question mark behind whether fear of grout is a good design guide.
 

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