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Small Bathroom advice

8 months ago

Hi,

I currently have plans for the bathroom but wouldn't mind some ideas on colour scheme.

I am quite favoured on single floor/wall tile colour, natural stone porcelain.

Essen Bone Topps tiles is about where we are at there.

Also wondering on what colour to do the fixtures alongside and match with the basin/cistern. This was quoted as https://www.cityplumbing.co.uk/p/iflo-soleto-basin-unit-compact-50-2-door-floor-standing-hamilton-oak/p/157921?srsltid=AfmBOoqT3Fg52pGQqmSLGkIXXX40TcjVoX8yw93y0GzBIeC_5BoWzbZk

Another idea is to do a feature panel on the back wall near the toilet in a wood clad, or would that be overbearing?.

FOr such a small cubby bathroom it's a....dillema!

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Juliet Docherty

8 months ago

I've just done three bathrooms. The issue I had was that previously they were choppy and jarring with black and white everywhere. I decided that if I could create sightlines that simplified the spaces that would help. In addition, as they are small spaces I opted for similar colours but varied the textures. This is one bathroom and the other image is the tiles in the shower room. All tiles Mandarin Stone, grout colours matched to tiles. Lights were Collingwood Deco.

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Daniel Eason
Original Author
8 months ago
Any considerations on tile size increasing feel of size? The top pic looks like 60x60.

What tiles are they btw in pic one?
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I have 600sq porcelain tiles and definitely makes the room look bigger. My clever tiler used a 1mm gap too with expoxy grout so it looks like a slab rather than individual tiles. Grout match was virtually identical. I used Lusso Stone as their price was a lot less than the boutique stone companies I was considering. My tiles are nearly identical to the ones on the Topps website that you mentioned. Delivery was very good too and no issue with quality. I love the tiles. I will try and find the name for you. We recently stayed at Pine Trees in Pitlochry and their bathroom tiles are Lusso Stone.
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Single tile colour is a good call in a space this small. The Essen Bone type tones work really well if you keep grout tight and colour-matched, it stops everything feeling chopped up. I’d lean brushed brass or soft black for fixtures rather than chrome, just to add a bit of contrast without going shouty.
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I would only use black if you have soft water as the limescale marks from hard water will spoil your fittings appearance in no time. Buy the most expensive taps including bathfiller types (Hansgrohe or Vardo) that you can afford as they are very expensive to replace when the cheap ones no longer have the technical backup that they require such as replacement cartridges. Think about access to fittings too. Anything built into the wall or boxed out will require demolition to access and replacement tiling and making good. Deck mounted taps over wall mounted, face mounted showers on riser rails and accessible toilets for maintenance or at least a flush plate that can be removed for valve replacement. I would rather choose cheaper tiles and more expensive taps if budget is an issue.

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