Am I going OTT with the marble?
We have honed carrara marble subway tiles in the kitchen teamed with white wooden units and black walnut worktops.
I'm now ripping out two en suite bathrooms and for not much more than the cost of the plain white subway tiles I was looking at I can get imitation honed marble. imitation marble subway - they look better than this picture
Practically all of my bathroom idea books have marble bathrooms and so its clearly still what I'm attracted to in terms of look even though the kitchen was done a couple of years ago.
Will it look silly to have marble in these bathrooms as well as downstairs? These are just the kids bathrooms. We haven't tackled ours yet (and I wanted real marble in there!).
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7 years agoI think the idea of using a different format is a good one. I'm thinking of using a larger format around the bath and shower and then possibly this idea with marble subway tile above wainscoting (although a slightly narrower strip of tile).
shelleyuk
7 years ago
Tracey Metcalfe