How beautiful to lay the tiles in the bathroom: ideas and options
One of the most pressing issues at the stage of repair planning is how to lay tiles in the bathroom, to be beautiful, stylish and almost at the same time. There are many options, consider the most popular.
Thanks to the variety of ceramic tiles, any design idea can be realized
Principles of design choice
To determine the best way to lay and organically fit the tiles into the room, take into account the following points:
- Room dimensions. With the help of cladding visually expand or reduce the space. This is achieved by selecting the optimal tile size, layout and color scheme.
- Placement of furniture and plumbing. Picture, the geometry and shade of the tiles are organically combined with the placement of objects in the bathroom.
- Lighting. There should be no unpleasant glare in the room, stay dark zones.
- Quality and type of surface. Perhaps, pre-alignment of the walls will be required, floors, bath screen device, erection of boxes, etc.. d.
The size of the room plays an important role in the design
Choice of laying scheme
To optimally arrange the tiles and choose a good design option, evaluate the previous factors and schematically mark the markings on the paper.
Make several combinations of different layout schemes.
Here are the possible ways:
- Seam to seam. Standard direct option, when parallel rows are stacked without shifting, so that the joints match.
- With an offset. Each subsequent strip is shifted relative to the previous one on the floor-element. The seams do not join and it looks like a brick masonry running away.
- Diagonal. The tile is placed at an angle to 45 degrees.
- Chaotic. Suitable for small parts of various shapes, like a mosaic.
- With a picture. With the help of elements of different colors and formats, geometric patterns or pictures are created.
- Combined. The most interesting option, combining several schemes, example, straight along the perimeter and diagonal in the center on the floor, standard and with an offset alternately on the wall.
Combined scheme
Monolithic surface
The easiest option for laying tiles in the bathroom is based on the use of the same material for the floor and walls. It is better to find an elongated rectangular tile, because it unobtrusively pushes the space.
It is important to follow the rules of joining seams, clearly combining the transition from one plane to another. The distance between the tiles is left small. The grout is selected by the color of the surface or one or two tones more contrasting for greater expressiveness.
You can use this approach to combine into a single composition of the floor and part of the wall. It is especially good to line thus a board on a bathtub and borders. If there is a niche in the room, the protrusions are also treated with the same material, as well as the floor.
To get a single composition use the same tile
Decorative design
The most traditional way to create a beautiful bathroom cladding with tiles - the use of individual decorative elements, they are divided into groups:
- Frieze. Border, which distinguish the light top from the dark bottom. It is a small rectangular element with a continuous pattern, containing three-dimensional decorative fragments.
- Ornament. This is a standard size tile, only patterns are applied to the surface, which connect with each other and form a decorative line on the wall or floor.
- Modular drawing. These are tiles with an image, divided into several elements, more often on four.
- Single inserts are a traditional way to unobtrusively decorate the walls or floor in the bathroom, as well as in the kitchen. Represent a tile from the same series, as the basis, but with a decorating element, more often a three-dimensional pattern in the center.
It is allowed to use several methods of laying, if appropriate.
The use of modular drawings in the bathroom - a win-win and the most appropriate option
Contrasting inserts
For this purpose, select at least two different colors. It is not necessary to use more than three shades in one room, as it creates a pleasant visual impression.
A popular trick is to lay out individual strips. Horizontal can visually expand the walls, and vertical - to increase the height of the ceiling. Combine both receptions, placing strips at the top and bottom with a slight deviation from the floor and ceiling.
Laying a contrasting vertical stripe - the most popular technique in the design of the bathroom
Also try the chess scheme. In this case the tile of two colors with shift on one element in each following row alternately keeps within.. Black and white chess with bright red inserts in several places looks especially impressive..
Decoration using a chessboard layout on the floor
A more relaxed and unobtrusive option is to highlight individual functional areas. Example, for wall cladding, adjacent to the shower, the area above the sink or mirror apply a different tile. Use the game of contrasts in a free place for decoration. This technique looks best when working with small square elements.
Selection of functional areas with the help of contrast tiles
Original calculation
If you want to create an unusual interior in the bathroom, an arbitrary scheme will be a suitable option.
One of the popular and appropriate effects is the creation of a waterfall of tiles. This is done as follows: the board in a bathroom is laid out by a mosaic or the crushed tile of blue color of various shades in the form of the poured out stream. Continuation of the composition goes to the floor. Perfectly, if the bath is located on an elevation, to which the stairs lead.
Original laying of tiles using a non-standard scheme
Also create the illusion of a beach with a sand path or other effect. However, keep in mind - such experiments are appropriate in rooms with a large area, in ordinary bathrooms to 6 square meters the picture simply will not be revealed in full.
Such work requires skill and patience, therefore it is better to trust so original in performance of the task of the professional.
Create an unusual interior with mosaic tiles
Photo print
If you want to focus on a particular area of the wall, example, adjacent to the bath, then create a real picture on it. Ready-made compositions are on sale. The picture is divided into fragments, corresponding to a separate tile, after laying with minimal gaps, a holistic picture is created.
Using photo tiles in the interior of the bathroom
If desired, you can order a unique drawing. Photo printing on tiles is more expensive than the finished product, but you choose the theme of the design.
Any of the options while following the technology of laying will turn your bathroom into a stylish and very beautiful room.
