Bathroom remodelling

[Tim]

[Lee]

That's my bathroom, tiled halfway all around and tiled like that where the shower is.

[Tim]

That looks good lee, exactly the kid if thing I was considering. Now to work out what to do for the window sill above the sink.

[Taurus]

Buy yourself a tile cutter, the type like a circular saw bed. They make tiling an absolute cinch. Just make sure you use decent quality grout as that can be the real ballache if the grout is hard to use.

If it's tiled all over I'd retile it all. You can buy cheapish tiles that look good. But the walls where the tiles have been will be a pain to prep for anything else unless you replaster them.

[Tim]

[Coleman]

Tiling around the bath is acceptable, same in my house, but with basic white tiles. I would put some tiles up from the back of the sink to the window sill, to act as some sort of splashback. Waterproof tile adhesive and grout is a must.

As long as the taps look nice, the rest of the suite can be any cheap thing. Fancy taps make the bathroom. They don't even have to be expensive.

[Lee]

Here's what's to the right of that picture above, it may help with more ideas for you:

[Tim]

Tiling around the bath is acceptable, same in my house, but with basic white tiles. I would put some tiles up from the back of the sink to the window sill, to act as some sort of splashback. Waterproof tile adhesive and grout is a must.

As long as the taps look nice, the rest of the suite can be any cheap thing. Fancy taps make the bathroom. They don't even have to be expensive.

Is there specific waterproof grout? I just thought grout was grout?

Also any recommendation on a specific style of tap?

Here's what's to the right of that picture above, it may help with more ideas for you:

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Thanks Lee, the pictures have been very helpful it's given me the idea of how to do it (basically copy the style in yours )

Also thanks Taurus for the tile cutter idea.

Now I'm off to price everything up.

[Lee]

Try and get as big a tile as you can, for as cheap as you can.

[Aaron]

Nice bathroom

Relax sign is what I need in mine as too much rage dumpage in my house.

[Vegas]

I'd buy some big plain white tiles in your situation, with the odd one to create a pattern/break
Up the bland white.

Selling your house, they're going to look that it's clean and functional as a second bathroom. That's the main thing here, you have to remnebr it's not for you.

[Dave]

Bright pink tiles IMO.

[Taurus]

I'm with Vegas on this. When I did our bathroom I used large square white tiles with a simple relief pattern on the front. Then I used small square coloured tiles a quarter of the size (ie arranged 4 of them to make a square the same size as the larger tiles) to randomly make a change of colour. It worked really well.

Go to a trade tile warehouse, they're mucho cheaper there than the DIY outlets or the bathroom designer places.

[Vegas]

Or even bnq on a Wednesday (iirc) gives money off to pensioners, just take an old person with you.

[Lee]

Go on google images and look at different bathrooms. I did it for my kitchen to give me some ideas and just finished tiling that. I have a picture or two of it but not sure if it's relevant to this thread.