Decorative Ceramic Tile

Ceramic Bathroom Tile

Some Decorating Suggestions For Using Ceramic Bathroom Tile

Ceramic tiles are widely used in bathrooms, primarily because they are not only durable and beautiful, but come in many choices of colors and styles. Their variety is due to what ceramic tile is composed of, and how it is made.

Bathroom ceramic tiles can be used to decorate both horizontal and vertical surfaces, and they are comparatively easy to install. One disadvantage is that when used for flooring, they can prove to be dangerously slippery, especially when wet. But there are several ways to reduce the likelihood of slipping on a wet ceramic tile floor.

Bathroom floor tiles

To avoid that checkerboard look, try laying your bathroom tiling in a diagonal pattern. If the room is large enough, you can put a border of smaller tiles around the edge of the floor.

Small "mosaic tiles" of different colors can be used to form a simple repeating pattern. The tiles could even be hexagonal instead of square. Hexagonal tiles have a history that dates back to the time of the Roman baths.

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Bathroom wall tile

Ceramic tile shower stalls and tub enclosures are two areas where you can use these ubiquitous tiles on a vertical surface. The most common pattern would be large square tiles in an alternating-color chessboard pattern.

Subway tiles have a width equal to twice their height, and look rather like shiny bricks. You can use grout of the same color to effectively mute the effect of the brick pattern. Or if you want to emphasize it, use a darker-colored grout.

To make a small bathroom appear larger, use light-colored bathroom tiling. Relieve the boredom of a single color by making a chair-rail ( a horizontal stripe of darker-colored tiles ) at a height of about 4 feet from the floor.

For a really unique wall, make a picture using small mosaic tiles. Or use larger tiles decorated with appropriate artwork to form a mural.

There is certainly no end to the creative uses of ceramic bathroom tile in decorating this room.

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Leah

Posted 593 days ago

Yes, I agree with that. I like to use ceramic tile for the floor, and also put it on the walls, but only up to about a height of 4 feet - then paint the upper wall.

Benedict

Posted 621 days ago

You didn't mention that you should never use tile to cover every surface of your bathroom. It makes the room look like a public lavatory. I had a bathroom like that once for a room I rented in college, and I kept looking over my shoulder to see if anyone had come in while I was showering.

Fallon

Posted 643 days ago

Don't care too much for a brickwork pattern for tiles. Somehow that pattern seems appropriate only for outdoors. And I wouldn't be too happy about showering outside without a bath suit.

Kym

Posted 672 days ago

I like the idea of using a diagonal pattern when laying the tile floor. But I wish that hexagonal tiles were more commonly avaiable. I've been partial to hexagons ever since I took Organic Chemistry.

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