And once again, very important with continuous tile laying in hallway, open kitchen / living area ... make a tile laying plan.
The tricky point is always the hallway. Especially with large tiles. It would help to draw the tile grid to scale on a transparent paper and then slide this over the floor plan with the same scale back and forth. This way you can see how to avoid many unnecessarily narrow cut areas. Furthermore, you can see how it creates nice continuous lines into the rooms, etc.
Often you will come to the conclusion that you basically halve the hallway lengthwise and lay tiles to the right and left from this line.
We had a tile layout created specially by the architect with different patterns.
In the end, our tiler decided against all plans. And what can I say, the result is amazing. But that’s probably also due to the quality of the tiler...
By the way, we have 120x120 tiles. From the large living/dining room with 52sqm to the guest bathroom with almost 7sqm. In the bathrooms, however, we have a different color than in the living/dining room and hallway.
On the walls, we have 45x90 tiles, and on the back walls of the showers, we have the 120x120 ones.