where to tile up to on high ceiling bathroom
For those following my bathroom saga, we finally had a roof light velux put in to our new bathroom-to-be which now looks like a big tunnel.
It couldn't go nearer to the wall because of a large joist unfortunately.
Anyway, the ceiling is being lowered slightly to put lights in and because it's old lath and plaster so will crack easily in future.
It's about 2.7m high now and so will be about 2.6 when finished.
Because the rooflight makes it feel even taller, I was wondering if the tiles above where the bath will go should finish at the standard 2.4m and I just paint around the top? Will it make it feel more balanced?
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last monthHi Tani,
Not sure if this is any help, but here's what we did. Our ceilings are 2.6m high. We had originally planned to tile the shower walls, but then I thought about our 2 small boys splashing about in the bath, so decided to tile half way up a long the length of our bath wall. Every other evening, when I'm drenched through and the bathroom is like a swimming pool with more water outside the bath than I put in, I'm glad I did. For me, it would have been too much vusually to continue the tiles to ceiling height along this whole wall.
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last monthHi Tani,
Haha well okay then! It all started with concrete dreams, but then I was thinking of adding a bit more colour and having a bit more fun in the family bathroom with patterned floor. (I've just ordered samples of sage green geometric tiles from Mandarin Stone). Shower/bath walls maybe light concrete or white hexagon or a smaller tile (not metro!), but not sure how these will go with patterned tiles colour wise. I also really love terrazzo tiles but my husband is not keen! Samples also on their way!
Three quite different styles and I love them all equally! ARGH!
I think I've decided on layout and are going for shower over bath so we can make our en-suite a little bigger! Not sure whether to have that little kick in the wall for some wall shelves, or keep the wall straight! the bath wall is 1.9m and kicks out to 2.1m as per the plans.
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last monthThe showerhead is going on the wall with the toilet and keep the ledge on the right. Sorry, I wasn't very clear, I was talking about the wall with the door on, I've knicked some space from the hallway to push that wall out but I'm not certain if I will keep it that way!
These are the samples I'm waiting on! Deciding which bits to tile is going to be the next challenge! haha.
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last monthAnyone else getting "@null" when folks are directing comments at others? Im not sure if your question about tiling the rest was directed at me, Tani, but those were the only parts of the bathroom we tiled, other than the pockets and window surround.
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last monththinking of something like these for floor tiles. There was one I loved that @minnie101 had shown me in another thread but it's discontinued and I can't find it anywhere (even did a google image search! lol). Or a funky black/white unusual pattern. Just have to find some now! Would have vinyl as well which opens up options...
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