Help! I'm looking to tile my en-suit...

[lydie-lou]

Hi there can anyone help? I'm looking to tile the en-suit. i was origionall going to go for a grey slate floor and white gloss wall tiles with mosaic tiles following the shower up the wall and behind the sink. Someone has said not to go for white gloss. I want a modern look and love grey slate but think the whole bathroom in grey will be too dark as there is no window.

Can anyone advise on a good modern look please?

[Dave]

Hi..take a look here and see if a look you like and try something similar>>> TilersForums.co.uk | Tile Forums | Tiling Forum - All Albums

[faithhealer]

My bathroom has no window either LL, done mine completely in travertine, but it's all down to personel taste, so have a look through Daves link

[365drills]

OK HAVE A LOOK AT THIS PICTURE OF A BATHROOM DONE IN A GREY TILE



QUESTION: Does the picture appear to be of a modern contemporary bathroom. Or does it look like a commercial prison cell?

There is no right or wrong. If you like it then great.

Contemporary
The trend for contemporary rooms follows these basic rules:

1) The large surface areas (walls and floors) should contain "natural" or "neutral" colours that are found in nature. Like stone, mud, tree bark.
2) Avoid primary colours like yellow, blue, red.
3) Avoid detail. Do not put in borders, two tone walls, decor tiles.
4) Furniture for bathrooms should ALWAYS be white. Avoid avacado!
5) Fittings should either be chrome, stainless.
6) Use of glass is acceptable. But not for sinks as they get grubby.
7) Try to tile floor to ceiling. Take out skirting board.

If you need inspirations for contemporary tiles then look at pictures of the finished projects at this site.

Room design is a personal choice but if you follow the rules above and match it to the look and feel of the pictures I suggest then you wont go too far wrong.

[Tiler Dave]

\Have just built an en suite into my sisters master bedroom in her new home. it has an 1100 x 800 shower tray basin and w/c. She is soooo bloody picky with what she has and everything has to be smack on with her (pain in the arse lol)
She is having white gloss 150h x 600w tiles, in the shower along the back wall 1100 she is having 4 x black backed glass tiles in the same size 150h x 600w from tray to ceiling 2 white at bottom, then 1 black then 2 white then 1 black, tiles finish just outside shower screen and then go into half tiling along basin and w/c wall all in white gloss.
Floor is going to be black granite and is less than 2m2.
En suites are usually smallish so if u want gloss white tiles for the walls then instead of the normal ones try n find some funky shaped ones. Like enlonged ones my sis has picked just to make it that little bit different.
Hopefully start the walls this weekend so when im done i will post up some pics for u all to see. Im personally not sure how it will look, considering ive been doin this sort of work for years and can usually picture the finished jobs in my head, it will prob look sound but will have to wait untill its done..........