Master Bathroom Floor Tiles

This page describes one of the phases of the multi-year Master Bathroom Remodeling Project.

On moving into our house, we inherited rugs in our bathrooms. Rugs in bathrooms are generally considered a bad idea and for some obvious reasons. Over the years we had removed most of these rugs with the exception of the master bathroom. However, we did replace the part of the master bath by the toilet and shower with tiles, so the only remaining rug was by the sinks.

Our original, but not realized, plan was to install ceramic tiles. That's generally what we have been replacing our carpet with and it is the most appropriate for a bathroom. We eventually went with a wood floor as described on the Bathroom Hardwood Floor Page.

Deciding on the color of the tiles was hard because of all the existing colors and textures. I used the Blender 3D modeling software to help visualize how various colors and texture would look.

Of those candidates, we decided that the sandstone color worked best. Slate blue had some appeal too, but one more new color in the bethroom made it look a bit too busy.

Finding someone to do the tiling job was hard. No one with a good reputation wanted to take on a job so small. Unless they were involved in the more lucrative full bathroom model, they were not interested. I was also reluctant to do this myself because I have minimal experience with tiling as see this as tricky to do right the first time. There are a lot of subtle things that only experience is going to teach for doing a quality job.

After that initial exploration, the floor sat as it was with the rug for another 2.5 years before we revisited completing this part of the remodel project. When we did revisit this, we went around to the flooring-specific stores, though I knew would over charge. At this point, as long as I could find someone and it was done reasonably well, I was willing overpay. What we ran into here was not finding the right tiles. Many had clashing texture or colors and the few plain-ish sandstone-colored ones we found were often discontinued or just slightly off. After taking home some samples, we felt that the matching wood floor would be much better and that is what we eventually did. See Bathroom Hardwood Floor Page.