White tiles for the bathroom: spectacular design - it's easy!

White has been used in bathroom finishes for decades. Opponents of the design of this color compare such a bath to a hospital ward and confidently declare that such a room repulses by its coldness. White bathroom tile, they believe, is an impractical and markable material.
However, there are quite a few homeowners and apartment owners who want to finish their bathroom exactly in white. Especially because With a combination with other colors, the use of accents and play with light, as well as the right choice of sanitary ware and decor white bathroom is quite capable of becoming a cozy and warm room.




Features
For a very long time, tiling in white belongs to the popular options for finishing the bathroom. Although there are people who consider white tile a capricious and impractical material, most people perceive white tiles as the basis for a stylish modern design, because it can be diluted with other colors at will, as well as use other various design solutions.


It is easy to take care of the white coating, and in addition, on such tiles is less noticeable fouling, which appears after a drop of water. White tiles can serve as a universal background for absolutely any decor. Only by replacing accessories, it is possible to transform the bathroom dramatically at least every month.

White tile is not irritating and discreet material, so it is often chosen for finishing rooms, which spend a lot of time - the bathroom, kitchen and others. It is because many people associate white with purity, such tiles are often chosen for decoration of the bathroom. The psychological impact of white tiles in the interior is manifested by a sense of calmness and comfort. In such an interior feels lightness, transparency and freedom.

Advantages
The main advantages:
- The bathroom becomes more spacious and bright.
- Helps to visually expand the space.
- Corrects the look of disproportionate rooms: If the room is narrow and elongated, then the walls that you would like to make visually wider are faced with white tiles, and the other walls are finished with a material of a darker shade.
- It is possible to create any style of interior in the bathroom. White is an ideal background, against which any decorative objects and accessories will look advantageous.
- The ease of transformation of the interior. Such a bathroom will never get boring, because simply adding any bright color or original accessory will immediately transform it into a completely different perceived space.



Classic combinations
Consider the classic combinations that are very often used in design. Being contrasting, they bring bright accents and make the design much more interesting.
White and black
This combination is very successful and can visually both increase the space of the bathroom, and add originality and style to it.
Facing in white and black can be represented by several options:
- White walls and black floor. Such an interior is characterized by the severity of outlines. Sanitary equipment in such a bathroom is most often chosen in white.
- Finishing both the walls and the floor with white and black ceramic tiles. Facing can be with single inclusions of black tile or with its symmetrical placement. This interior is considered to be quite extravagant and spectacular.
- Finishing the lower part of the walls with black tiles, and the top of the walls - white, with the division of their decorative frieze. Such a design looks very elegant. The black area can have different heights - both quite large and minimal.



White and red
Red in a white bathroom can be added and through the installation of bright sanitary ware, accessories or furniture, and the use of red tiles together with white in the lining of the walls.

For example, you can decorate the walls with a red border or highlight the mirror with red tiles. Such a color combination invigorates and improves the mood.



Other shades, such as gold, coffee, silver, chocolate, turquoise, can also be added to the combination of red and white.

Combination with other shades and colors
In addition to the classic white-black and white-red combinations, the bathroom can be finished as desired using other colors. White ceramic tiles go well with orange, yellow, green or blue tiles. On a white background any bright color will look even brighter and more colorful.



White tile combines well with all pastel colors, allowing you to create classic interiors.

If you combine white with sandy, brown and beige shades, you can decorate the room in the Egyptian style.
Wanting to decorate a bath in the style of country, also choose a combination of white + brown.

Design options
Choosing white as the main color for the bathroom interior, in front of you there are a lot of interesting design variations. The use of white tiles gives just a huge scope for creativity.
Adding glossy, you get a glamorous bathroom, using fittings and accessories of gold color, you create a classic interior, and using the finishing with wood and live plants, you can turn the room into a home spa.



The decision to finish the bathroom with white tiles is beneficial not only aesthetically, but also practically. In the future, thinking about a radically new style of the room, you will not need to completely change the lining, and will only change the decor and use other accents.

Of course, the variant of bathroom decoration, when there are only white ceramic tiles on the walls, and the bathtub, furniture and washbasin are also white, looks uncomfortable and not very attractive. Getting into such a bathroom, you will immediately think of medical facilities or industrial buildings.

The first way to avoid this, if you still want an all-white bathroom, is to use almost white instead of white. If you want coolness, buy white tiles with a bluish hue, and if you want to make the interior "warmer," stop at the white tiles, which have a beige hue.

You can also buy white ceramic tiles with a finish "like a stone" - the room will remain white, but it will not look like a hospital interior.

Transform a white bathroom can add a small amount of another color. This can be a small mosaic or a border - even with a small colored inclusion the interior will look quite different.
About the variations tile design in the bathroom read our other article.

An interesting idea will also be the use of colored grout.

Playing with textures, textures and rhythm
For those who still do not want to dilute the snow-white bathroom interior with another color, it is possible to avoid associations with the hospital, if you play on the features of the tile surface. Now in construction stores wall and floor white tiles are represented by many kinds, different patterns, textures, imitations.



Decorate the walls with smooth white tiles, add to it a bit of tile with different monochrome ornaments and patterns. You can combine smooth surfaces and textured, or try to play with rhythm - to combine in one interior white tiles of different sizes (combine large tiles with small tiles, similar to a mosaic).
How to add coziness
All-white or white and black bathroom looks cold, and to make a white bathroom cozier and warmer, you can use these tricks:
- Choose white tiles with original texture and texture for the finish. Consider matte and glossy combinations, adding tiles with patterns, choosing tile with stone imitation or similar techniques.

- Complement the white walls with bright inclusions, such as colored tiles or decorative frieze, stripes, mosaic elements and others.

- Finish bathroom is not a pure white, but similar to the white shade of tile (for a "warm" interior, choose beige, cream, milk).



- Add bright accents and colored decorative elements (mats, towels, curtains, baskets, soap dishes and more), as well as colored bathroom fixtures.

- Influence the lighting. You can add more color by installing sconces on the walls and more fixtures on the ceiling. You can also add shades of color to the lighting, making the white ceramic tile look different in tone.

- If the walls are white, then cover the floor with a neutral or colored finishing material.
White is a color on which it is easy to create spectacular contrasts. I especially like the white tiles with wave type texture. It's beautiful very much!