Elevate Your Bathroom With a Gorgeous Tiled Floor
Florals, geometrics or an energising mix – patterned floor tiles can completely transform the look and feel of your bathroom
White wall tiles are popular for a reason – they help a bathroom look clean, fresh and bright and allow you to add colour through towels and accessories. An all-white bathroom risks coming across a bit sterile, though, and that’s where the feature floor comes in. A pattern, mosaic, colour or design can take a boring white bathroom to the next level. So go on, why not stand out from the crowd?
Pep up a small space
Small bathrooms can benefit from feature floors, too. A patterned tile adds style without overwhelming the space, whereas it could if the tiles were used on the walls. A traditional tile pattern paired with more contemporary elements can be an irresistible combination. Can you imagine this bathroom with white or plain floor tiles instead? Its charm just evaporates, doesn’t it?
Small bathrooms can benefit from feature floors, too. A patterned tile adds style without overwhelming the space, whereas it could if the tiles were used on the walls. A traditional tile pattern paired with more contemporary elements can be an irresistible combination. Can you imagine this bathroom with white or plain floor tiles instead? Its charm just evaporates, doesn’t it?
Refresh with geometrics
A graphic design can give any bathroom a contemporary edge – go bold and big in larger spaces, but take care not to go overboard in a small one. Smaller patterns in more subtle colours can work best in bathrooms that lack space.
A graphic design can give any bathroom a contemporary edge – go bold and big in larger spaces, but take care not to go overboard in a small one. Smaller patterns in more subtle colours can work best in bathrooms that lack space.
Make it a work of art
Feature floors are especially worth considering when there are no obvious walls that could work as feature walls. Three artisans painstakingly hand-laid this one-of-a-kind mosaic feature floor over many, many hours.
Feature floors are especially worth considering when there are no obvious walls that could work as feature walls. Three artisans painstakingly hand-laid this one-of-a-kind mosaic feature floor over many, many hours.
Define a large room
Feature tiles in a large bathroom add effortless elegance, and the bathroom can get away with whiter-than-white walls without looking bland.
Feature tiles in a large bathroom add effortless elegance, and the bathroom can get away with whiter-than-white walls without looking bland.
Salvage for unique style
When you’re making use of recycled wares in a country or eclectic-style bathroom, a feature floor can enhance the space with an extra dose of warmth and character. An old workbench salvaged from a farm shed became the vanity unit in this bathroom, and the tiles were sourced from Spain. ‘They are an artwork in themselves,’ the homeowner says.
When you’re making use of recycled wares in a country or eclectic-style bathroom, a feature floor can enhance the space with an extra dose of warmth and character. An old workbench salvaged from a farm shed became the vanity unit in this bathroom, and the tiles were sourced from Spain. ‘They are an artwork in themselves,’ the homeowner says.
Pick out a punchy shade
This London bathroom plays up the purple vanity unit with flamboyant Hungarian floor tiles. It’s the age-old question: did the chicken come before the egg or the egg before the chicken? It doesn’t really matter when it comes to bathrooms – find a tile you love and bring out the colours with your vanity unit, or do the opposite and match your tiles to your vanity unit.
Flaster tiles, Perini.
This London bathroom plays up the purple vanity unit with flamboyant Hungarian floor tiles. It’s the age-old question: did the chicken come before the egg or the egg before the chicken? It doesn’t really matter when it comes to bathrooms – find a tile you love and bring out the colours with your vanity unit, or do the opposite and match your tiles to your vanity unit.
Flaster tiles, Perini.
Don’t stop at the skirting
If you love a floor tile so much that you can’t bare the thought of limiting it to the floor, have it run up the wall in a panel. It isn’t as overwhelming as an entire feature wall, but can add plenty of colour and flair.
Tiles, Encaustic Tiles.
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If you love a floor tile so much that you can’t bare the thought of limiting it to the floor, have it run up the wall in a panel. It isn’t as overwhelming as an entire feature wall, but can add plenty of colour and flair.
Tiles, Encaustic Tiles.
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Clad the bath
Running the tiles up and around the bath is another way to make more of a stunning floor.
TELL US…
Have you made more of your bathroom with a feature floor? Share a photo of your feature floor in the Comments.
Running the tiles up and around the bath is another way to make more of a stunning floor.
TELL US…
Have you made more of your bathroom with a feature floor? Share a photo of your feature floor in the Comments.
Mismatched floor tiles dare to be different and can be ordered in sets – they may not match, but each is perfectly suited to the others. These Moroccan-inspired cement tiles may mix up the patterns, but because they stick to a colour scheme of black, white and taupe, the patchwork effect is congruent enough to hang together in harmony.
Coat hooks, the Dots at Muuto. Floor tiles, Bespoke Tile & Stone.
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