If your bathroom could use a makeover there s no better place to start than with tiling.
Floor tile perpendicular to tub.
The shower floor is a 2x2 mosiac.
If you stay with the 12x24s on the floor placing then horizontal long side parallel to the tub may make your room look wider.
I would glue and screw the new plywood to the old.
The walls of the shower and around the tub are 3x12 white subway.
Next up striped floor tile.
It s not pleasing to the eye or very functional so the built in tub wedged between the vanity and the toilet room had to go.
How to install floor tile next to a tub.
The movement of grain in the floor and shower walls are anchored by perpendicular white mosaic subway tile in this shower floor for a look of modern rustic charm as well as cleanliness and an air of efficiency.
Natural colors and natural light.
The sheets of plywood are suppose to have a 1 8 gap for expansion and to prevent sheets from rubbing on each other.
It was a 52 48 split in favor of parallel to the tub and not perpendicular to the tub.
In this room below i ran the long side of the tile parallel to the wood floor and entrance to the room because of the direction one would be looking at the open kitchen from the living room and how one would be using the kitchen.
When they put down the new wood sub floor it should be installed perpendicular to the existing sub floor and each sheet should be staggered from each other.
Sometimes the layout has to do with how you would look at the room or where the main focus is in room not where the entrance is.
I asked over on instagram which way people would lay these striped hex tiles.
The bathroom opens via double doors that directly face the shower cubicle.
There s a sink on each side of the shower and sub rooms perpendicular to each sink.
These sub rooms could have solid walls or glass partitions.
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One sub room holds the toilet while the other holds the tub.
Maybe you could put them on the floor.
Truthfully we d already decided on the.
Sans the sunken tub.
You can still put the wall tiles whichever way you want.
Tile floors install roughly the same way throughout all the variations ranging from entryway floors kitchen countertops bathroom walls wainscots and.
Note the subtly textured floor tile that has the look of linen.
Tiling in any room of the house can make or break the entire atmosphere and nowhere is this more evident than in the bathroom older generation homes often boasted stunning bathing spaces that put more modern abodes to shame.
Organic elements including salvaged wood on the vanities porcelain floor tile that looks like leather and handmade hex tiles behind the tub help soften the room s modern geometry.
Lay tile parallel or perpendicular to soaking tub.
Which way would you lay the bathroom floor tile.