Hi, bumping your question :-)

thank you!

Hi LB, metro tiles are always an excellent choice. The tilling layout if you go with these type of tiles is always pretty much the same, because it works well with the style of the metro tile itself. So we suggest you tile around the bath and only to the edge of the bath up to 1900 mm height. For all other walls half way tiling is recommended, up to 1100 mm. This will look great! As for the colour scheme, a clean white metro tile with grey or beige paint above is a sleek option and suitable for spaces with less natural light. You can also always change the colour of the walls if you get tired of them, so the white tile gives you a lot of flexibility at a later time. On the other hand if you are going with a darker grey tile, opt for white walls to keep the bathroom light and fresh. On the second photo you can see well how the tiles should be installed. Good luck!

I personally do not like too much tiling, but I think I’m in the minority! I would tile behind the bath and behind the sink only. if you like metro tiles, then I think the coloured tiles much like Design Angels last picture are so much nicer than white ones. Then paint the walls in a soft white in a washable paint. Here’s a few more ideas

Just retile the current areas. I think the sink splashback is slightly high, or the odd edging is giving it a funny look currently. But with a better tile choice and complementary paint colour there isn’t a problem.

Thank you all for taking time to reply.

Tiling the whole bathroom is not an option due to cost, so although I like the tiles at the bottom and paint at the top design, it's not something we can do at this time. So it will just be above the sink and above the bath.

How high should we go with the tiles around the bath if it's a small room, with low ceilings. The last thing we want to do is make these negatives worse! Do we go all the way to the ceiling or what is a recommended height to tile half? Obviously you can see we have a small child (from all the toys!) so we need to think about splashing water!

If you don’t tile over what you have now you will need replastering... I’d go to the top with metro tiles to make it look higher. Your sink splashback is a bit high now you only need about 3-4 metro tiles height.

I would never tile the whole bathroom, even if you had the budget. It really does make the space closed in and institutional - I did this in my bathroom and it's my biggest regret there. I think you should try to avoid this awkward gap between your normal bath tiling and sink tiling. just run it all the way from the left edge of the bath to at least the right edge of the sink (or to the end of that wall it you can). I assume you are putting a shower screen or a curtain of sorts too?

Thank you for that mock up! it really helps visualise what the room would look like.

We won't be adding in a screen or curtain as we don't use the shower at the moment. (also due to the ceiling height we can't stand up in the bath to shower, but that's another issue which we don't need to address right now. We have an ensuite we use.)

We may still consider the half wall tiling and see what the wall is like underneath. if it looks better not having so many tiles, we may go down the replaster route. Do you think the half wall would look better than a full wall if we did replaster?

I've mocked up a version with halfway tiling and lower one too for you. I don't know which looks better really. The cornice around the walls makes the ceiling look even lower too, I think.

I would stick to tiling the areas you have already, just to bear in mind if you don't fully tile the bath area it will need to be plastered/painted. I think metro grey tiles would look nice against your white vanity unit.

oh if you are not using the shower I would def go for a half-height tiling with some sort of a border. I think it looks a lot classier. not sure if plastering would be expensive though!!

Yes think we'd have to look into the cost of plastering versus the cost of more tiles! Not sure the option is there to remove the cover as it would mean a lot more plaster work, however you are probably right about it making the ceiling appear lower. I'm not a big fan of coving but it's there so it may have to stay!!

Thinking grey tiles may look better than white now I've seen the white tile mock up. That's been so helpful, thank you!!!

We've finally decided on a plan! We're having white metro tiles half way up the wall on all three walls apart from the towel rail wall (opposite the bath).

Currently we have skirting all round the room. The thing we're stuck on is, do we tile all the wall to the floor and have the skirting removed, keeping skirting on the none tiled walls. Or keep the skirting all the way round.

We're having the coving removed to help with the height issue and make the room feel taller (hopefully!). Also getting new flooring.

I've included photos of the wall opposite the bath for reference.

Let me know if you think any of our ideas will look silly though as I know you guys are so helpful and can visualise things better than me!

Just wanted to say I like how 6 months on and it hasn't been done. Makes me think we are not the only one who likes to take their time! x

L B I think either option would work. I’ve noticed in some of the previous pics of bathrooms the metro tiles go right down to the floor, and in some they sit on the skirting. As your skirting is quite short I think you could keep it? No hard and fast rules!

Haha, yes Ellie! I was surprised to see how long it's taken us to make our mind up and get on with it!