Tile Design Pattern

Choose Your Tile Design Pattern

If you’re planning to tile a bathroom by yourself, these ideas may help you plan your bathroom tiling installation in the best and most cost effective way as well as give you some tile design ideas.

Understand that planning your tiling installation properly is the most important step for smooth, easy going and problem free bathroom tile installation.

Remember a DIY bathroom tiling installation isn’t a quick job, so don’t miss the point and plan it right. All the time spent planning your tile design and installation will save you time, effort and money.

You need to plan your bathroom-tiling project carefully; choose the tile design and tile patterns, what materials you need and which tools you’ll need.

Choosing your Bathroom Tile design & Tile patterns

The tile patterns that you can create with different tiles are endless and limited only by your own tile design ideas. A large variety of standard tile designs, ideas and tile patterns are available.

Choosing the tile design is obviously the first thing you need to do, until you deciding this you can’t start your bathroom tile installation.

Do a search on Google images for some bathroom tile design ideas, there are over a million bathroom pictures here. It’s sure to give you a few ideas.

Tiles are made in porous and non-porous varieties. When planning to tile your bathroom, you should choose the non-porous ceramic tiles.

A good tile design idea is to choose contrasting colors for the floor tiles and wall tiles. Then have a skirting line the same color as the floor tile.

Another tile design idea is changing color at chest level, which will give your bathroom a whole different look.

Then choose new bathroom accessories that compliment the color of the walls.

Materials, how much tile and grout will you need? To calculate the quantity of materials you must take precise measurements of the total area that you wish to tile.

From the total area and the size of each tile, you can calculate the number of tiles required for your new tile design.

You need to also remember to take into account the gaps between tiles when calculating the number of tiles needed, so make sure you include spacers appropriate to the tile size chosen.

When calculating consider more than half a tile as a full tile and less than a half tile as a half tile. If you have chosen a multicolored bathroom, calculate each color separately.

Remember to order extra tiles as you can be sure that some tiles will break during installation. In addition some of these extra tiles could be used in the future if any tiles need replacing. This is not only good but an advisable practice.
Always order additional tiles since the tiles you’ve ordered may not be available in the future, you’ll have difficulty finding a match.

Make sure you choose the right tool for the job. It’ll make the job easier and faster too. You probably have a basic toolbox however to lay tile you need special tiling tools.

Some of them are expensive but don’t waste your money buying professional tools that you won’t use enough to justify the cost. Instead rent them. For some a small expense you can have the best tools for a few days. And if you’ve done your planning properly you’ll only need them for a few hours.

Planning your tile design and tile installation properly is the most important step for smooth, easy going and problem free bathroom tile installation.