Bathroom tiles work hard to protect both the walls and floor in this room, and can also transform the look of this space. With an abundance of styles, colours, and designs to choose from, there's much bathroom inspiration that can be taken from our top tile trends.
From bathroom wall tiles to bathroom floor tiles, there is a tile type to suit every bathroom. Here, The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best tiles for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Choosing Bathroom Tiles
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Before buying new bathroom tiles, it’s a good idea to consider who will be using the room. For bathrooms with lots of traffic, porcelain tiles are considered a better choice as they can withstand more wear and tear. Yet, for those bathrooms looking for increased style over practicality, ceramic tiles may be the preferred choice here.
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Will the bathroom tiles be for the walls or the floor? It’s crucial to ensure that the type of tile you choose for this room is suitable for installation in the correct place. Our tiles brochure highlights whether each bathroom tile is suitable for the wall or floor or even both.
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How many tiles will be needed to complete the project? By measuring the area to be tiled first, the coverage m2 required can then be compared against pack quantity to give an idea of pricing. We also recommend adding five to 10% additional tiles here to allow for potential breakages during installation. Alongside this, the cost of grout and adhesive should also be accounted for.
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What size tiles will help enhance the bathroom? Tiles can help create the illusion of space, so those bathroom tiles for small bathrooms can include large, light-coloured uniformed choices positioned horizontally. Meanwhile, bathroom tiles for large bathrooms can include varied patterned tiles and mosaic choices with darker colour options.
What Are the Most Common Types of Tiles?
For the bathroom environment, both porcelain and ceramic tiles are popular choices with many homeowners due to their hard-wearing properties and easier installation abilities. Both tiles are also ideal for using throughout the bathroom on both walls and floors. When choosing between the two, often porcelain is considered to be the more durable as it's a denser material and easier to maintain.
Bathroom Tile Ideas Using Current Trends
With so many fantastic-looking tiles trending right now, there are several ways to incorporate them into any bathroom style.
Dark Drama Tile Trends
The dark drama trend creates the most luxurious of looks by using and combining rich dark walls and the boldest of patterns. Brass and metallic finishes provide maximum impact.
Tile choices here include Bevel, Phoebe, Georgia, Form, Melody, and One.
Molten Metallic Tile Trends
The molten metallic look features key design choices of metallic golds. These work to add and enhance that element of warmth in this room. Plain tiles combined with striking mosaics can be used as a focal feature here.
Tile choices here include Emperador, Cream Beige Pearl, Coffee Stone Hexagon, and Herringbone Glass.
Natural Materials Tile Trends
The natural materials trend mixes elegance with nature by using soft colour choices alongside natural materials such as stone, marble, and wood. These can all then be accessorised with matt black fixtures.
Tile choices here include Rockingham, Riverstone, Nicewood, Glide, Skyla, and Splitface.
Colour Pop Tile Trends
The colour pop look throws out all notion of a plain white bathroom and replaces it with a bright and bold colour scheme. Making the bathroom pop, eye-catching wall coverings fare well here and can be accessorised with matt blacks or gold to finish.
Tile choices here include Form, South Bank, Confetti, and Soleil.
Buy Bathroom Tiles From The Bathroom Showroom
Other popular tiles available in our showrooms feature in our sought-after collections including Timeless, Marble Effect, Stone Effect, Glazed, Patterned, Mosaics, and Wood Effect & Flooring choices.
To further help customers select the very best in tile designs, we also offer a free tile sampling service. This is ideal for trying before buying and ordering a selection of samples before making any final commitments.
If you're looking to shop tiles for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.