It depends on your ceiling height. If you have a normal ceiling height, like 8 or 8.5 feet, it should go to ceiling. If your ceilings are much higher than that, the height of the shower starts to look disproportionate to the width. We tiled to the ceiling in two of our bathrooms with lower ceilings. We did not tile to the ceiling in our master, which is closer to 10'.
Post by liveintheville on Feb 1, 2013 15:54:11 GMT -5
How big will the tiles be? I feel like a bigger tile won't be as overwhelming if you go up the ceiling, but a small one would. Ours don't go all the way up and I wish they did. I think our bathrooms are 10' and the tile goes maybe 8.5'. The tiles are 15"square and I think it would have looked fine all the way up.
This will show you why we can't just regrout now. It will either be 12x12 or 8x12 tiles. I just brought a bunch of sampled home. I think I'm going with the set in the upper right. I was to coordinate but not match the floors. They are too dark for a shower (for me)
This will show you why we can't just regrout now. It will either be 12x12 or 8x12 tiles. I just brought a bunch of sampled home. I think I'm going with the set in the upper right. I was to coordinate but not match the floors. They are too dark for a shower (for me)
I actually like the upper left better. Or maybe post a higher resolution picture?
I know what you're going through! DH had wanted to redo our guest bath (which is the one I use) for years. I kept saying no. He did while I was in the hosptial having our DS this past summer! I will say it looks a LOT better and he got the tile for crazy cheap. FWIW, he did it all the way to the top and he's a tile layer by profession
We did 12*12 tiles with a strip of mosaic (maybe 4 or 6 inches in height) about 2/3 of the way up. They were pricey, but the 12*12 were like $.25 a piece or something crazy.
Post by thoseareradishes on Feb 1, 2013 18:35:00 GMT -5
I think it is really a design preference. We redid the master and hall baths. In the master, the tile is large and goes to the ceiling (only a shower, no tub). In the hall, we did subway tile to surround the tub, and it ends about 12 inches from the ceiling. Then there is a strip of wall, then crown molding. I think it looks pretty awesome.
This will show you why we can't just regrout now. It will either be 12x12 or 8x12 tiles. I just brought a bunch of sampled home. I think I'm going with the set in the upper right. I was to coordinate but not match the floors. They are too dark for a shower (for me)
I actually like the upper left better. Or maybe post a higher resolution picture?
yeah. I like the upper left better. But brown floors, white tub, and beige tiled? It just doesn't pull together well IMHO.
I'd love if our shower walls (they're not even tile, yay standard crappy apartment showers) went up to the ceiling. We have some nice mold on the wall above the shower right now that needs to be dealt with. Any extra ways to prevent that would be great for me!
Post by hurricanedrunk on Feb 1, 2013 22:56:52 GMT -5
My vote is to have the tile go all the way to the ceiling. If you are doing any sort if decorative element I would do it around 3/4ths height of your wall so the scale of it looks right. Also if you go with the larger tiles you have less grout lines to clean
I actually like the upper left better. Or maybe post a higher resolution picture?
yeah. I like the upper left better. But brown floors, white tub, and beige tiled? It just doesn't pull together well IMHO.
I personally think the beige would look best. The brown is too matchy matchy. Of course, choose what you like. That's what I had to keep reminding myself throughout our build.
Oh! I bet you actually see the far upper right 6x6 tile. There are three there. A perfect match brown, a skinny accent price, and then a lighter 6x6 underneath. Those three are the same line. I'm using the lighter one. Not the one that matches so well you can bearly see it in the picture. And in an 8x12 size. The 6x6s were just samples.
I like it all the way to the ceiling. I am also very tall and end up getting water all over the paint, which is now peeling. We have one of those fiberglass insert tub/shower things which I think is abominable, but I'm not going to replace it with a tub and tile since it isn't our forever home. I think I'm going to tile out the wall above the shower. Something like this:
It's a quick fix for sure, but hopefully it will dress up an otherwise plain and outdated bathroom.