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What are the tiles just around the sink area?

6 years ago

The Vawdrey House - Bathrooms · More Info

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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).
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