Tile for a small bathroom

Ceramic tile is a beautiful and functional material for decorating a bathroom. For rooms where it is usually humid and water can get on the walls, tile is the best choice.
Having successfully selected a tile for a bathroom, you can make a small room beautiful and cozy.

Color

For small rooms, light shades are better. But the whole room isn’t worth doing. Moreover, almost all manufacturers produce tiles in collections, including tiles for walls and floors and various decorative elements - borders, panels, etc. A tile of contrasting colors sometimes visually reduces the already small room, especially if it is of a small format. The fashion trend is to use mirrored tiled elements. Mirrors really expand the space, but we must take into account that not everyone is pleased to see themselves, for example, washing in the shower, and, moreover, divided into many parts. More saturated colors make the room deeper, but only if it is properly lit. Warm colors look more pleasant in the bathroom, but sometimes cold shades add a feeling of spaciousness.

• Mosaic

  Original option for local decor in the bathroom

  

• Light shades

  Great solution for small rooms

  

• Green color

  It neutralizes the effects of adjacent colors, and also helps to dispel negative emotions.

  

• Mirror tile

  The fashion trend is the use of mirror tiled elements.

  

• Cold tones

  Cold shades add a feeling of freshness and spaciousness.

  

• Warm colors

  Create a feeling of coziness and comfort.

  

• Glass tile

  With its help, you can easily create a stylish and unique interior.

  

• Red color

  It gives strength and energizes, use the red color is necessary in moderation.

  

Drawing and relief

For bathrooms, glazed tiles are usually used. It comes with a glossy and matte finish. A shiny surface will visually increase the room, make it brighter or airier. But on it a calcareous deposit from drying drops of water is clearly visible, so care for such a tile will be somewhat more difficult. Ceramic tiles are smooth and embossed. When choosing a relief tile, you should carefully consider whether the glaze is evenly applied to the decorative elements. For a small room, it is important that there are not too many relief elements. It is undesirable to finish the whole room with structured tiles. Such elements look much more spectacular in the form of accents.
In a small room, drawings look the size of a single tile. It is possible to place several decorative elements on a plain background wall. Large one-piece panels will bring closer to the observer the wall on which they are located, this decoration option is suitable for narrow and long rooms resembling a corridor. But soft paintings, collected from tiles of the same size as the main one, will be in a small room by the way. The room will be decorated with vertical stripes of a more saturated color than the main tone. A good decision to place light and bright vertical stripes, alternating them with rows of tiles with a pattern.

Styling method

The most common way of laying tiles is a straight line (under 90 without offset rows). This method is suitable for any, including small rooms. On the floor, using a laid-back laying (under 90 with rows usually shifted by half the tile) or oblique laying (under 45-60), you can achieve a visual increase in the room, but sometimes the opposite effect is obtained on the walls. Rectangular tiles are best placed vertically, so the ceiling will appear higher.
Before buying, it is advisable to go shopping and see the live collections. It is also good to familiarize yourself with finished projects. Using special programs, you can visualize your ideas and see how this or that tile will look in a particular room.

The size

For a small room, it is preferable to choose a medium-sized tile. Tile of a small format narrows the space due to the visual separation of the walls with inter-tile seams. This effect is especially pronounced if grouts are used that differ in tone from the primary color. A very large tile in a small room looks bulky. In addition, its use requires a more accurate alignment of the walls, which additionally takes up space. Choose the size of the tile so that the trim is minimal.