Trendy tiles for a stylish bathroom -

How up-to-date are your bathroom tiles? Fixtures and fittings have a lot of effect on your bathroom’s looks, but gorgeous tiling still makes the most impact. Here are some tiling ideas that are making waves on the bathroom scene.

Eye-catching accents

Modern bathrooms are saying goodbye to boring, plainly tiled bathrooms by going for striking accents. Although classic neutrals are still popular for bathroom tiling, more people are trying to liven up their bathrooms by adding accent tiles. This way, they can stick to simple colour or material choices for majority of their bath tiles without settling for a completely ordinary bathroom. A nice swirl accent composed of metallic mosaic tiles can amp up even the plainest white bathroom. From pebbled stone strips to complex glass mosaic tiles, there is a wide variety of materials that can be used to create gorgeous accents for your bathroom. You can even go the extra mile by adding mosaic accents that double as pieces of art!

Interesting patterns

Who says that there are only one or two ways to lay bathroom tiles? Lots of bathroom tilers and renovators are adopting a number of paving techniques to update bathroom designs. Aside from the traditional grid or diagonal tiling patterns, you can also have your bathroom tiles lain in a herringbone, basket weave, dotted diagonal, offset, and other unique patterns. Stripes are also very popular in many modern bathrooms, and they work great in making your walls appear wider or higher.

Mixing and matching tiles

One of the best tricks to make sure that your bathroom isn’t boring is to mix and match different tile sizes, materials, and colours. Mixing differently sized tiles can have a huge impact on the overall look of your bathroom. Large format tiles are highly utilised in modern bathrooms for their clean and simple look, but they can also be used with other tile sizes to create appealing designs. Imagine the effect of alternating large format tiles up to 120 x 120 centimetres in size with a few rows of glass or metallic mosaic tiles in a complementary colour.

You can also mix and match various materials. If you don’t have the budget to tile your entire bathroom with natural stone, consider using them to accent affordable ceramic or porcelain tiles. Technology has also made ceramic tiles look almost exactly like natural stone, so you can opt for these too. Fresh tiling materials to use for your bathroom are metal tiles like copper, natural stones like marble or granite, and glass tiles. Try combining glass, stone, and metal to make a mosaic for your bathroom. The curious blend of colours and textures will definitely pop out.

If you’re feeling daring, mix and match complementary tiles in different sizes, materials, and colours all at once. Fair bit of warning though, don’t go overboard with the mixing and matching or you might end up with a bathroom that looks like it was designed by a toddler.

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