Features of finishing with white tiles
There are a number of nuances:
- This finish gives the room more light.
- White tiles are especially appropriate for small bathrooms in Khrushchev, as it visually changes the dimensions of the space, making it more spacious.
- This design is aesthetically pleasing and has a fresh and stylish look.
- Have finishing material white, the main advantages are that it has no design restrictions, due to which it perfectly suits any style decisions.
The location of the tiles in the bathroom
Several accommodation options.
On the walls
With a huge variety of shapes and designs, plain or seamless ceramic cladding is the best decorative element for wall decoration and unique interiors.
On the floor
White porcelain stoneware flooring, is more durable, is quite easy to clean, has a very attractive appearance and a refreshing color, giving the atmosphere expressiveness, sophistication and style. The only drawback is the increased soiling and impracticality.
In a niche
The recess, decorated with white tiles, fits especially harmoniously into the overall stylization of the room, adding individuality to it. Such niches can be located near the door, above the bathroom, toilet, near the shower or washbasin.
In the shower
For walls and floors in shower rooms, clinker tiles are the most popular and practical solution that is free from fungus and bacteria.
We have made a detailed article about finishing the shower cabin with tiles.
Color combinations of white tiles
In order to slightly dilute the snow-white design, harmonious shade combinations are used.
White and brown
They are the perfect complement to each other and represent a win-win design option that favorably emphasizes the interior of the bathroom.
Black and white
A contrasting duo, white top, dark bottom, or vice versa, separated by a border in the middle, is considered classic. The snow-white finish, complemented by dark accents in a checkerboard pattern or in any other arrangement, takes on a more interesting and effective look.
Be sure to check out our a selection of black and white bathrooms.
Gray white
Graphite, lead, steel, anthracite or wet asphalt, combined with white, look really stylish. With the help of this ideally balanced tandem, rooms are especially often decorated in the style of minimalism or high-tech.
Take a look bathroom interior with gray tiles.
White and blue
To create a stylish design, a combination with blue, light blue, azure or turquoise tiled cladding is used. These two shades create a light and slightly cool atmosphere, and when decorating surfaces with pebbles, shells, starfish or themed designs, you can create a truly nautical interior.
With beige
Such a calm combination, due to its neutrality, will visually enlarge and expand the space.
White-pink
Gives the environment a particularly gentle, elegant, attractive and at the same time noble appearance.
With silver
It will be a finishing, slightly glamorous touch and a wonderful accent in any bathroom.
With gold
It has an unusually solemn and refined look, which endows the design with aristocratic nobility and high cost.
Mother-of-pearl
Due to the spectacular glow, golden, greenish tints and blue and gray highlights, mother-of-pearl looks especially amazing and gorgeous.
What is the best grout color for white?
White tiles with black grout or with a gray grout, is definitely a very practical solution, since dark seams will not lose their attractiveness over time and do not require regular cleaning, which greatly facilitates the maintenance of the lined surface.
Also, grouting joints can be monochromatic or have a contrasting design. For example, red, orange, pink, yellow, blue, or any other colored grout will accentuate geometry and accentuate white tiling.
Shapes and sizes of tiles for a bathroom
White ceramic tiles can be square, rectangular, or have more complex shapes, for example, have a hexagonal shape that looks like a honeycomb, oval, round or diamond shape, and small mosaic elements... Due to unusual shapes, it turns out to create a more complex play of light and achieve various visual effects.
Bathroom layout options
A rather relevant and classic option is staggered or diagonal arrangement, with the help of which it turns out to hide and beat some surface irregularities. Also, the plane can be decorated with white tiles at a distance, due to the offset resembling brickwork. It has a very original look layout as herringbone trees, suggesting the joining of tiles at an angle of 90 degrees or a linear version with intermittent, parallel, broken or chaotic stripes.
Bathroom Tile Design Ideas
Popular design ideas.
Bricks
A product under a brick or white tile hog, which is also called the metro, can have completely different designs, be matte, glossy, aged or sprayed. This cladding option always looks very interesting and modern.
Marbled
Noble aristocratic white tiles with bizarre brown, gray, pink or bluish veins, add sophistication and visual high cost to the bathroom environment.
Under the tree
This imitation very accurately conveys the texture and has a rather natural look that can be distinguished from the original only by touch.
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Mosaic
It has special facets that beautifully refract and reflect the luminous flux, can have a traditional look or be decorated with fragments of stones, glass or bizarre and intricate patterns.
Glossy
Such a surface, due to the reflective effect, creates interesting illusions in the space, adding elegance, freshness and even a certain coldness to it.
Matt
To achieve the opposite of a warmer and more cozy design, a matte white, slightly rough tile will do.
With drawings, patterns and ornaments
A variety of detailed designs, patterns or ornaments, such as meander, arabesque or patchwork, add spice and intrigue to the setting. Tiles with flowers can become a truly powerful accent move that looks bright and expressive and gives an exotic touch to the bathroom.
Embossed
It has a volumetric convex texture, often used to highlight certain areas in a room and achieve a high decorative effect. Wall tiles with waves, looks very unusual and, thanks to their streamlined wave-like shape, smooths the interior space.
How does it look with other materials?
White tiles can also be perfectly combined with other different finishes, for example, it can be just painting, wallpaper or plastic panels. For those who prefer natural and environmentally friendly materials and a more stylish and presentable interior, the combination of tiles with wood or plaster is especially suitable.
What styles are white tiles suitable for?
White cladding is the most popular for decoration Scandinavian interior, minimalistic or high-tech design. Also, this finish is no less relevant for the classics, loft, provence, shabby chic or other retro styles. This design and color scheme easily changes, complements and transforms the bathroom in any stylistic direction.
Photo gallery
White tiles, thanks to such a pure shade and an excellent combination with various color and texture solutions, become an indispensable finishing option and a beautiful, cozy design, both for simple and more complex designs.