Tiling Options For Your Wet Room Design

When it comes to selecting tiles for your wet room, you can benefit from choosing a non-porous option, such as tiles made from ceramic, glass bathroom tiles or porcelain tiles. Tiles made from porous stone such as slate or marble might look trendy but are high-maintenance and will need to be re-sealed periodically. Here are our five top tile choices for use in your wet room that create the perfect aesthetic.

Wet Rooms Can Be More Accessible

If you’re looking for a modern, uniform look in your wet room, then rectangular brick or metro tiles are a perfect and popular choice. Perhaps you like the size and shape of metro tiles, but prefer a slightly more rustic finish, then an alternative option is to go for marble or glass brick bond bathroom tiles instead, which still achieve a great, timeless look.

Getting Creative With Your Grout Colour

When tiling your new wet room, the final look will vary hugely depending on the colour of grout that you use. Once only available in muted whites, browns or greys, tiling grout can now be purchased in a huge range of colours. Try white tiles with black grout, or the reverse, for a striking contemporary look, or get really creative and pair pastel tiles with grout in a colour that ‘pops’ for a modern yet fun style – the combinations really are endless.

Introducing Contrast With White Walls & Patterned Floors

If you like the idea of playing with pattern and colour but don’t want to go overboard, you could play it safe and opt for a plain white tile to use on all of the walls in your wet room, and then pick out your favourite coloured mosaic tiles or patterned tiles just for the floor. The resulting look is clean, bold and timelessly stylish – a great example of this style can be found in the attic of Gaudi’s famed Casa Batllo in Barcelona.

Create A Fresh & Playful Look With Two-Tone Squares

For a while, they were mostly found in schools and church halls, but two-tone walls have now become a popular and stylish choice in contemporary homes. Why not transfer this popular look to your wet room? By simply choosing two colours of the same square tile (this usually looks best with white and a bright colour, or two shades of the same colour) you can easily achieve this fresh and inviting look for your new wetroom. Tile from the floor to midway up the walls in the first colour then continue upwards to the ceiling with the other. The resulting look is cool and playful.

Achieve A Spa-Like Mosaic Effect For Your Wet Room

Mosaic tiles can look stunning when used on a large scale and a wet room provides a great opportunity to do this. Perfect for creating a space that feels serene yet luxurious, you can imagine you’re relaxing in a Moroccan riad when you tile with wet room mosaic tiles in beautiful jewelled tones. A popular option is to use swimming pool mosaic tiles within a wet room. High quality, non-slip and designed for both commercial and residential use, these tiles will certainly withstand everything that can be thrown at them, and help to add a luxurious spa-like feeling to the space.