Shower room. Just completed and not in dreaded white tiles.

[royaloakcarpentry]

Just finished this for a retired commercial architect. First bathroom or shower room in what must be nearly a year that isn't done in white tiles. made a lovely change, although I finished a bathroom last month in white tiles but with unique features to it and mm accurate work which was also a nice change.

Originally he was going to have white grout but soon talked him out of it, so I got my way and did it with jasmine grout. Floor is original. shower valve has been moved from left hand wall to right hand wall. original boxing for basin and toilet which are also original. Bathroom cabinet is recessed into the wall.

A quadrant shower tray was taken out and replace by 810mmX1210mm tray and I had to build out floor to ceiling boxing on right and back wall to accommodate and get best fit to tie in with corner and tiling.

Access panel below shower tray and also three tiles on the vanity are access panels. Two of these allow access under basin for yearly plumbing inspection and third one allows access to flush pipe for toilet. the top of the vanity unit lifts off to allow access for the toilet cistern and yearly plumbing check.

Considering the tiles were Turkish, they didn't go up too badly.

[lockie]

nice

[southwood3]

Lovely work. The recessed cabinet is a neat idea. Silicone beading looks perfect.

[thescruff]

Very nice, similar tiles to what I'm looking for eventually.

Do you prefer the stacking or staggered joint

[royaloakcarpentry]

Lovely work. The recessed cabinet is a neat idea. Silicone beading looks perfect.

Finished a bathroom last month where the client wanted two cabinets side by side and recessed fully, plus a few other individual touches and a horrible papered ceiling lol. I didn't post any pictures of it as I get fed up of white tiled walls.

[royaloakcarpentry]

Very nice, similar tiles to what I'm looking for eventually.

Do you prefer the stacking or staggered joint

It depends on the size of tile but with these ones I quite like them the way they are. Although he gave me drawings for how he wanted the tiling set out and showed this bond, I did ask him if he would like them put up in broken bond instead.

probably a good idea to lay two areas out on the floor before you tile and leave it for a day or so and keep looking at it to see which one is more appealing.

I am still waiting for a client who actually wants broken bond but with a quarter overlap instead of a half. That way perpendicular joints are only in line every third tile and I think it would look good with the correct size of tile.

[dave.m]

White tiles that size always remind me of public toilets, yuk!

The top pictures look the dog's danglies, especially with the coloured grout instead of white.

dave

[royaloakcarpentry]

White tiles that size always remind me of public toilets, yuk!

The top pictures look the dog's danglies, especially with the coloured grout instead of white.

dave

Ha ha that is exactly what I thought about the bathroom in white once it was finished...........a few nice individual touches, papered ceiling but still looks like a victorian 'cottaging venue' with the added bonus of a bath. Although the papered ceiling, Which I did not do, should be in rogues gallery.

[dave.m]

ROC,

This is what it could look like in a few years when the tiles have lost thir white sparkle:



dave

[royaloakcarpentry]

lol.

[Psyken]

Great work.

I'll be working on my bathroom soon enough. I currently have a horrid built in cistern toilet with a wooden frame painted blue. The plan was to remove the built in and replace with a wall mounted toilet.

This has shown me that a built in cistern could look good!

Now I'm new to this so forgive me, but on the built in unit for the cistern above, what are the tiles fitted to? Did you make a wooden framed unit then tiled it to finish?

I know I have a lot to learn before I start!