Tile for a small bathroom
Ceramic tile - beautiful and functional material for decoration bathroom. For rooms where it is usually humid and water can get on the walls, tile is the best choice.
Having successfully selected a tile for a bathroom, you can make a small room beautiful and cozy.
Color
For small rooms, light shades are better. But the whole room isn’t worth doing. Moreover, almost all manufacturers produce tiles in collections, including tiles for walls and floors and various decorative elements - borders, panels, etc. A tile of contrasting colors sometimes visually reduces the already small room, especially if it is of a small format. Fashion Trend - Use mirrored tile elements. Mirrors really expand the space, but we must take into account that not everyone is pleased to see themselves, for example, washing in the shower, and, moreover, divided into many parts. More saturated colors make the room deeper, but only if it properly lit. Warm colors look more pleasant in the bathroom, but sometimes cold shades add a feeling of spaciousness.
Drawing and relief
For bathrooms, glazed tiles are usually used. It comes with a glossy and matte finish. Shiny surface visually increase the roomwill make it brighter or airier. But on it a calcareous deposit from drying drops of water is clearly visible, so care for such a tile will be somewhat more difficult. Ceramic tiles are smooth and embossed. When choosing a relief tile, you should carefully consider whether the glaze is evenly applied to the decorative elements. For a small room, it is important that there are not too many relief elements. It is undesirable to finish the whole room with structured tiles. Such elements look much more impressive in the form of accents.
In a small room, drawings look the size of a single tile. It is possible to place several decorative elements on a plain wall background. Large one-piece panels they will bring closer to the observer the wall on which they are located, this finishing option is suitable for narrow and long rooms resembling a corridor. But soft paintings, collected from tiles of the same size as the main one, will be in a small room by the way. The room will be decorated with vertical stripes of a more saturated color than the main tone. A good decision to place light and bright vertical stripes, alternating them with rows of tiles with a pattern.
Styling method
Most common tile laying method - straight line (under 90 without row offset). This method is suitable for any, including small rooms. On the floor, using a laid-back laying (under 90 with rows usually offset by half the tiles) or oblique laying (under 45-60), you can achieve a visual increase in the room, but sometimes the opposite effect is obtained on the walls. Rectangular tiles are best placed vertically, so the ceiling will appear higher.
Before buying, it is advisable to go shopping and see the live collections. It is also good to familiarize yourself with finished projects.Using special programs, you can visualize your ideas and see how this or that tile will look in a particular room.
The size
For a small room, it is preferable to choose a medium-sized tile. Tile of a small format narrows the space due to the visual separation of the walls with tile joints. This effect is especially pronounced if grouts are used that differ in tone from the primary color. A very large tile in a small room looks bulky. In addition, its use requires a more accurate alignment of the walls, which additionally takes up space. You need to choose the size of the tile so that the trim is minimal.
