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just put the kitchen in and now the damn wife wants flooring down , have taken the old floor tiles up now so ignore tiles underneath , the main problem is space as you can see its jus over 3 tiles long the floor and about 12 tiles long , the question is how would you lay them for best effect

as you can see there is 2 sizes of tiles i can mix them but would be straight lines going down or can use the single ones and have brick effect , any help would be appreciated


john

I'd go with the second option, although there will be more cuts! Personally I think it looks better.

Second option, the symmetry looks better

Me too. Option 2.

First option accentuates the "long and thin-ness" of the kitchen.

I'm not even sure that there are more cuts involved with Option 2. Now that you have the skirting off, Option 1 would have to move over to the left a bit, which would leave you with a gap to the position of the plinth. So you'd have to cut tiles, and lengthways at that, to get a narrow strip of them up that left hand side under the units.

At least with Option 2 you can use the other 1/2 of each tile you cut for the left hand side to go under the units on the right hand end of the next row. (or chop it down a bit more if the unit legs are in the way)

You might get away with not having to do much more than 1 accurate cut for every 2 rows.

Looking at Option 1, it also looks like your floor area isn't quite square. The gap between tiles and skirting looks to increase as it comes towards you. Option 2 makes it easier to compensate for this by cutting progressively slightly more than 1/2 tiles as you work towards the camera. The slight stepped edge this will give up the left hand side will then be covered when the skirting goes back on. Lay it all out carefully first, you don't really want to have to cut little fillets of tile to fill small angles.

as above, the 2nd one looks better, first one makes the kitchen look too narrow i think

cheers guys thats what i thought ,where do you recommend i should start tiling first , the way i have them laid out now or another wayonce again thanks for the replies

john

I'd measure your tiles from the doorway and then work back to the door. So you have a full tile at the door and any cuts under the unit.

tigerjonny wrote:cheers guys thats what i thought ,where do you recommend i should start tiling first , the way i have them laid out now or another wayonce again thanks for the replies

john

As Darren says.

You can lay them all out first and cut them all to the correct size before fixing them. Once you have them all cut to size you can mix the adhesive and start tiling, like here- floor tiling

ok well the question i was gona ask was from the door would it be best to lay all the full tiles first then cut or cut as i go....cheers guys

john