There are many ways in which you can easily and affordably create the modern bathroom of your dreams. Bathrooms need to be functional as well as stylish, and one of the best ways to achieve the best of both worlds is through tiling.
To help you on your journey to achieving a bathroom that will excite and delight you day in and day out, we’ve put together some modern bathroom tile ideas.
Stick to a Colour Tone
Keeping to a single colour tone makes a lot of your bathroom design easier. Apart from the fact that light colours in a bathroom add a sense of visual space, it also allows you to keep the design both modern and timeless. Of course, there’s no reason for your entire bathroom to be devoid of other colours. But with a single colour tone for your tiles, it’s easier to achieve that modern look. When it comes to infusing other colours elsewhere, keep reading our other modern bathroom tiling ideas.
Use Simple Colour Contrasts
Colour can be really effectively used to create a sense of visual depth to a space without cluttering the room. For a bathroom, this is invaluable. That’s why we love the modern design style of using white or off-white tiling across the floor and walls juxtaposed with dark or black accents, tapware and cabinet handles. This simple and minimalist contrast achieves a lot with a little in a modern bathroom aesthetic.
Tile the Shower with Stone
Perfect for those of you on a tight budget, tiling just your bathroom shower with beautiful natural stone can actually bring your entire bathroom to life. As it is likely the largest section of your bathroom, the shower offers plenty of scope to work as an independent design feature, and the gorgeousness and practicality of stone tiling is the perfect answer.
Subway Tiles
There are a lot of fantastic ways in which you can utilise tiles in your modern bathroom, but if you’re looking for something that strikes a delicate balance between modern and classic subway tiling is a safe bet. This standard tile style is clean and minimalist to look at but offers enough complexity and depth to infuse your bathroom with personality.
Herringbone Tiling
Subway tiling might not be for everyone. If you like your tile design to be a little funkier without jumping off the deep end, herringbone floor tiles are an excellent option. While you certainly can opt for bold and strong colour schemes, we do recommend sticking to neutrals if you really want to achieve that timeless yet modern bathroom style.
Marble
We just love marble. This classic stone tile really does look great anywhere in the house, your modern bathroom included! Stunning to look at and durable for an environment exposed to a lot of water, moisture and steam, marble stone is as practical as it is beautiful. Importantly, the classic white-toned with grey/silver veined aesthetic of marble is an excellent way of creating a bathroom that is simultaneously classic and modern.
For those of you who love marble but want to utilise this amazing natural stone in new and interesting ways, you can consider hexagonal tile designs.
Marble Hexagonal Tiles
As far as modern bathroom tile ideas go, this one is among the more bold… And beautiful. Marble stone makes for an exquisite choice of tiling material to turn any bathroom into something luxurious and modern. While you can choose more generic rectangular, square or larger slabbed tiling, hexagonal tiles are a modern design trend that can really do wonders to a space. Whether you opt to tile the entire bathroom floor or just the area around your bathtub and/or vanity is up to you and your budget.
Mix and Match Styles
For modern bathrooms, we often recommend sticking to neutral and minimalist tones. However, that doesn’t mean your aesthetic needs to be boring! One excellent tile idea is to actually use different tiling styles across different sections of the bathrooms. This keeps a sense of motion and complexity to the space without actually causing a headache. It gives you plenty of opportunity to mix and match different layering styles you like and highlight certain sections of your bathroom.
Feature Walls
In contrast to our very first tip in this list, if you’re feeling bold and want your bathroom to reflect that you can always consider putting in a feature wall. (Sometimes referred to as a statement wall as well.) This provides an opportunity to express a little creativity by choosing alternate colours or patterns of tiling that will contrast but also complement the rest of the bathroom space. Carefully consider which wall is best in your bathroom. For example, the wall behind a bathtub is an excellent place for a feature wall.
Grey and White Tiling
A delicate mix of grey and white floor tiling might not sound exciting, but it can look utterly stunning in a modern bathroom context. This minimalist colour palette keeps your overall tone consistent but allows for a bit of visual depth and interest without becoming overpowering or overwhelming.
Natural Stone
While both stone (in your shower) and marble have appeared on this list a few times already, we think natural stone deserves an entry of its own. Hard wearing, long lasting and utterly beautiful there is still plenty of scope to choose material, style, shade and colour with natural stone. As far as modern bathrooms go, nothing brings classy and contemporary styling to a space better than stone.
Play To Your Bathroom’s Strengths
Every bathroom is different. When thinking about how to incorporate tiling, think about what your bathroom’s strengths are. For example, high ceilings should be capitalised on with floor to ceiling wall tiling. Bathrooms with a lot of natural light and windows can be brought to life with brighter coloured tiling. Simply put, make sure to play to the strengths of your bathroom.
For More Tile Ideas, Give Us A Call!
As the leading supplier and fabricator of marble and stone throughout Sydney, we know a thing or two about putting together modern bathrooms!
So, if you’d like more custom advice about how to incorporate modern bathroom tiles into your home, make sure to give the Euro Marble team a call.
