Rectangular Tile Orientation

[chewymix]

Bathroom is currently being done and we have square floor tiles, rectangular wall tiles that are quite large and then mosaic for accents.

With regard the wall tiles as they are rectangular should they be hung north south or east west? Also should they be hung like bricks or like 'normal' square tiles.

The tiler is suggesting east west and like bricks but i thought i'd ask the masses. They are a light natural stone type colour.

thanks

 

[holmslaw]

The tiler is suggesting east west and like bricks

Thats correct if they are large tiles and daft if they were small tiles.

Whats more important is whether you start in the middle of the wall with a joint or middle of tile. This is important because you should aim for any cut tiles at corners to match the layout and to be as wide as possible, rather thin cuts (10mm ish) that look crap.

 

[bathstyle]

Landscape is very popular these days, brick effect was very popular a couple of years ago but the phaze has died now and always looked a little naff anyway.

If you want to see currect trends then visit The Hansgrohe, Duravit, Ambience Bain websites, and anything by Phillipe Stark

 

[chewymix]

tiles are 400 X 300 so not small but not massive.

i may have to go for the brick option though as its an olf victorian house and the walls are not square by any means and i can imagine having a nice full tile midway up the wall and then a 15cm infill piece at the top or something, or are there ways to get around that ?

 

[bathstyle]

Yes that would work, a traditional Bathroom is more likely to look better with a brick effect, although having the brick effect actually means that it is more likely to have smaller cuts against your out of true walls.

 

[chewymix]

thanks for the advice - i am confident the tiler will do a good job.

question on mosaics, the better half wants a strip of mosaic behind the shower mixer, sink and toilet cistern. The strips will be about 7 mosaics wide for the shower as thats the width of the mixer and then about 4 behind the cistern and sink, with these running vertically will that look crap or should be ok?

i do the practical stuff she does the design!

 

[bathstyle]

It'll look good, Vertical borders look a lot better than horizontal

Something like this:-

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g304/bathstyle/bathroom11-1.jpg

 

[chewymix]

ah great - yes very similar to that, same type of colours also.

what gap is that - 2mm ?

 

[bathstyle]

Yep, 2mm spacers used throughout