Half Bathroom Tiling design IDEAS needed ASAP Please!

[tiles4me]

Hi guys,
Thank you for a great forum. My missus a couple of days ago without asking, decided to demolish some of the tiling and now we quickly need ideas to retile the bathroom. To be honest it really does need updating as its dark.

Its a standard victorian terraced stone-built house and the bathroom is approx 8ft by 7ft. I personally feel the bathroom is very cold during the winter due to it being fully tiled, so i want to reduce the amount of tiling, but without making it look like its gone back to the 80's/90's. Currently it has the standard 3 piece bathroom suite with a standard shower above the bath itself.
My main issues at the moment:-

1. What designs should i go for which has minimal tiling and is not out of date? (I like a warm look, but not dark! - so if colours can be stone or off-white? Maybe some dark tiles for contrast?)

2. How do i go about putting the tiles on? i.e. your tips, so that i don't make a disaster of it. Any video guides?
Thanks

 

[kilty55]

yes take the sink off,fair enough wanting to learn but any tiling job done badly looks awful never mind the actual cost of the stone itself and materials involved ,what are your expectations of the end product after forking out lots of cash on stone,materials and tools?

 

[kilty55]

what kind of stone are you thinking about

 

[tiles4me]

They are actually ceramic tiles with stone effect from wickes:-

Crema Marfil Stone Eff Tiles 30x40 PK8 - Ceramic Floor Tiles - Floor Tiles -Tiles & Floors - Wickes

 

[tiles4me]

sorry it's so late, but before i goto sleep, here is a quick sketchup:-




I look forward to your replies!

Thank you so much once again.

Good night!

 

[tiles4me]

Morning guys,

what do you guys think? is this a good design for tiles? What about the type of tiles i've chosen?

 

[White Room]

If your going to do brickbond make sure the tiles are dead flat otherwise you will get lipping because of the curve in a tile.

 

[tiles4me]

mate this sounds more complicated by the minute...just wondering if i asked someone, how much they'd charge me?

 

[White Room]

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