I am a tiler so its in my interest to persuade people to fit more tiles but I agree with the other people who are questioning why you want to do this. You can transform the room with wall paper as Kerosis suggests and if you tire of that in a few years it is easy to remedy. I always point out to people that tiles are put on the wall as a practical durable easy to clean surface and therefore it is often not necessary to put them everywhere. If you do decide to fit tiles then you should remove the paint on the walls 1st as that was only ever designed to hold itself on the walls and it doesn't matter how brilliantly your adhesive hangs onto that paint if the extra load causes the paint bond to fail then your tiles will no longer be bonded to the wall (no such problem with lightweight wallpaper :-) Terry the tiler

I would tend to agree, 13 x 500 depth drawers capable of holding 50kg each and a reasonable amount of cupboard space on top! Reliably informed by our client that some "additional" items were bought as it was a shame to waste the space..

vanity is full cabinet on 3" legs. using your pic, the right hand side is a full floor to ceiling wall and the left hand side is a half wall next to a glass enclosed shower. the half wall height next to the shower is 40" tall thus that height reference. remodeler plan is to tile from floor up to the 40" mark and all the way around all 3 walls to provide decorative backdrop since the vanity isn't as wide or as tall as the alcove. what I am unclear on is whether it's standard practice to tile behind a full cabinet vanity or not? remodeler suggests tiling the entire alcove in the event we have to replace the vanity for any reason, that way we don't have to try and find/match tile for any different exposures. my second question is since the tile is a textured pencil tile and the vanity doesn't have a backsplash (simply flat surface marble top) - remodeler suggests tiling fulll alcove first and then mounting vanity to back wall and caulking the vanity to the textured tile. this approach would use the textured tile as the backsplash (6" of the tile will be showing above vanity).

Thank you so much, thats really kind of you, its actually a concrete path that i stencilled over as the concrete was horrid and i couldnt replace with paving due to the sheer length of the garden and the cost involved.