65 Bathroom Tile Ideas to Inspire Your Next Remodel
These designer spaces showcase tile's creative possibilities.
When designing a bathroom, selecting fixtures and finishes that are both functional and stylish can be challenging. These bathroom tile ideas offer the perfect solution for covering your floors, walls, and shower stalls. The vast array of tile shapes, colors, and materials ensures you can find a perfect match, no matter your style. Whether you desire a spa-like atmosphere with sage tiles, a glamorous space with glossy options, or a moody retreat with a black-and-white combination, tiles are an excellent way to add personality to your bathroom.
Explore beyond the standard white subway tile with these inspiring bathroom tile ideas. Create a luxurious vibe with floor-to-ceiling marble or embrace the maximalist trend with bold colors and celestial patterns. Perfectly suited to nearly any home, tile is ideal for bathroom surfaces due to its ease of cleaning and sanitizing, seemingly limitless style options, and timeless appeal when aligned with your personal taste. Whether you're planning a bathroom renovation or just a refresh, consider these 65 designer-approved bathroom tile ideas.
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Frame Your Fixtures
Rather than adorn the entire shower stall in tile, design firm Studio McGee chose to use the bathroom tile as a framing accent around the shower fixtures.
Symmetry Is Key
In this bathroom, large slabs of marble are bookmatched, creating a perfectly mirrored image across the vanity wall. Pair with a simple, contrasting tile, like these terracotta floor tiles, to let the marble really shine.
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Look to Flooring Patterns
Want a creative way to showcase a bathroom tile idea? Look to your floorboards for inspiration. This herringbone-patterned tile wall helps accentuate the glossy finish without looking too busy.
Go More Monochrome
Rather than debate over paint chips and color swatches, artfully tile your bathroom walls. This bathroom tile idea features a subtle gradient amongst the all-blue tiles.
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Use It Like Wainscoting
In splash-prone zones around the sink and bathtub, you'll want to protect your drywall from too much water exposure. Opt for a half- or 3/4-high tile installation. This one even creates depth with a small shelf for vanity essentials.
Try an Off-Kilter Pattern
Guest or second bathrooms are great places to experiment. In this bathroom designed by Gina Sims, this “random” tile layout adds visual interest without looking predictable.
Match Your Decorations
Taking color cues from both the paint and the wall of hanging plates, these quaint tiles are nearly a perfect color match. To bring this bathroom tile idea to life, always bring color swatches with you when shopping to ensure you like the pairing.
Don't Forget to Look Down
For those with more minimalist sensibilities, tile design can often feel too busy. A great alternative is to keep the walls and countertops simple and reserve all visual interest for the flooring. This graphic tile pairs perfectly with the antique vanity.
Embrace the Varied Textures
The beauty of natural stone or zellige comes down to the different textures of each individual tile. When placed together in a simple grid formation, the textures help to bounce light around the space and add depth.
Warm It Up
Brown ochre is a color trend with staying power. This bathroom tile idea features warm brown with a golden undertone. Just take it from this room by designer Sarah Magness, which is covered in small square tiles in varying ochre shades.
Find Starry Inspiration
In the bathroom of a New Jersey home designed by Toledo Geller, a starry floor tile pattern complements the cross pattern on the vanity without overwhelming the space. Sage green zellige tiles on the wall add a bit of shine.
Make It Grand
This lavish bathroom by Corey Damen Jenkins is also a library. Featuring Art Deco-inspired tilework, Greek Revival columns and arches, and bold artwork hanging in the bathtub alcove, every stylistic flourish hits the mark.
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Pick Purple
“What I love about Moroccan tile is the color is never the same,” says designer Kati Curtis, who chose this textural purple from Mosaic House for the walls of the secondary bath of a Massachusetts Tudor home.
Focus on Marble With Distinct Veining
Designer Andrew Brown wanted the bathroom in his Birmingham, Alabama home to feel like a jewel box. To achieve this, he brought in floor tiles with distinct veining and matching slabs of marble to outfit the shower in a bold yet cohesive look. Deep yellow patterned wallpaper and gold accents boost the luxurious feel.
Opt for Light and Airy
Craft an airy, fresh feel with tiles in light blue, soft gray, and off-white just like in this powder room designed by Katie Ridder. The clover-like pattern adds an element of surprise and delight.
Combine Different Shapes
Designer Kureck Jones knows how to have fun, especially when it comes to bathroom tile ideas. The bubblegum pink subway tiles on the wall and the diamond, almost leaf-like motif on the floors of this bathroom are bursting with energy. The brass industrial-style fixtures and lighting add just enough contrast, and the pop of pale purple paint is the cherry on top.
Go High Contrast
Classic Mediterranean tiles give this modern bathroom by Kingston Lafferty Design a bit of old-world charm and just enough color. The hand-painted washbasins blend right in while the black accents modernize the space.
Make the Shower Pop
If you opt for plain and simple floor tiles, go bold in the shower (or the other way around). Here, Heidi Caillier made a statement with a unique yet classic tile design on the floor and a more subtle pattern on the walls and floors outside the shower stall.
Try Some Playful Contrast
Shrink down the classic black-and-white checkerboard tile pattern for a contemporary spin on the timeless design, as Tamsin Johnson Interiors did here. We love the mint green retro toilet paired with the pink marble accents as well as the dot motif sconces for a touch of contrast.
Mix Up Checkerboard Colors
Robert McKinley Design Studio opted for a unique marigold and off-white checkerboard pattern in this shower. It pairs beautifully with the gold fixtures, but it's that modern black pendant that really takes things to the next level.
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