New kitchen tiles

[Ajax123]

Ok....so I have spent the last few weeks returning the kitchen... Right back to brick, battens, insulation, plasterboard, new floor with underfloor heating etc etc.... I am now at the stage where I need to think tiles between the wall and floor units and behind the cooker.

Here is a pic of what it looks like.

I cannot seem to decide what tiles to go for other than I don't want natural stone.

.any suggestions will be most welcome.

 

[White Room]

Somethink like this

 

[John Benton]

If there's plenty of light coming into the kitchen then I would be tempted to go for a black gloss to pick out door handles and cooker, something along this style. I would be tempted to go for a flat tile 20 or 30 x 10cm, would be a good size, rather than metro style.



What floor tiles are you putting down Alan?

 

[AliGage]

Agree above on size etc. But rather than metro tiles or 300x100. Id probably opt for a 200x100 crackle glaze. Would suit nice with the wood.

 

[DHTiling]

The trend at present is no tiles on kitchen walls.

They mainly have just an upstand matching the work surface but it is also personal choice.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

If there's plenty of light coming into the kitchen then I would be tempted to go for a black gloss to pick out door handles and cooker, something along this style. I would be tempted to go for a flat tile 20 or 30 x 10cm, would be a good size, rather than metro style.

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What floor tiles are you putting down Alan?

Ha ha.......these are my tiles!! (I did this tiling in my brothers house!!)

Do you need some tiles big Al???

 

[Andy Tiler]

This looks quite nice?

 

[Lee@emctiles]

Looks bob on Andy

 

[John Benton]

Ha ha.......these are my tiles!! (I did this tiling in my brothers house!!)

Do you need some tiles big Al???

I just googled flat black tiles and when I hovered over pic it came up with TileTown so I thought why not

 

[pete f]

crackle is very nice and would go well in there all 4 colours remember to seal them

 

[Ajax123]

The trend at present is no tiles on kitchen walls.

They mainly have just an upstand matching the work surface but it is also personal choice.

Yes I've noticed that. Maybe it's a cost thing... Not sure but I really want tiles ... Tried melamine splash backs and bare walls with emulsion and never really found them very successful... As you say personal choice.

 

[Ajax123]

This looks quite nice?

Oooh yes I like that... What tiles are they. Are they available in a cream colour to match my unit doors....or maybe a beige colour to compliment the floor and the worktops...

 

[Ajax123]

crackle is very nice and would go well in there all 4 colours remember to seal them

Now you've gone a spoilt it... Seal them indeed.. 😉 .. I think I want glazed ceramics really.

 

[judge]

Bumpy whites maybee.......................:sofahide:

 

[DHTiling]

Alan, if you are to tile it , then it has to be 20mm mosaics on diamond set. 🙂

 

[Ajax123]

Alan, if you are to tile it , then it has to be 20mm mosaics on diamond set. 🙂

I did think about mosaics but thought they are difficult to get flat... I know the technical side but not so good on the practical side of tiling...

 

[Ajax123]

Bumpy whites maybee.......................:sofahide:

dont joke... My mrs did suggest bumpy whites and bumpy greens.... Argh! 🙂 could always go for 6inch square public toilet whites...

 

[DHTiling]

dont joke... My mrs did suggest bumpy whites and bumpy greens.... Argh! 🙂 could always go for 6inch square public toilet whites...

6x6 whites , save you a fortune :lol:

 

[Martyn Leeds]

I don't usually like metro's, done plenty of the usual white, red, black - but I'm doing a cream one at the moment & I think they look really nice and different for some reason, . Or the purple/plumb ones I did in our own kitchen (similar units & worktops), here's a link 'cos my photo won't upload (as usual)
MINI BEVELLED GRANATE BRILLO

 

[widler]

Put these in a kitchen the other month Alan, they were actually left over from a floor in the bathroom downstairs,so the bloke put them in the kitchen.
I've also put the B&Q 600 x 600s on a few kitchen walls,a cheap way to tile a kitchen but v effective IMO.
Sorry about the 2nd pic, it's my kitchen,I've just taken it 🙂 i tiled it about 5 years ago though in the blackish 600x600s

 

[Ajax123]

Ok ... Looks like we've decided on metro style tiles. However now the pattern... I was thinking brick I d but then all the lines and grout joint have to be perfect... What does anyone thin k of the idea of random joints rather than rigid brick bond??

 

[DHTiling]

How about stacked

 

[John Benton]

How about these Alan, just finished splash-backs this week