Looking for advice on bathroom floors

I had an inspiration bathroom picture that I tried to replicate—sort of California organic. Our ceramic floor tile is dark charcoal gray, almost black, 8 x 10 or 10 x 12, with dark matching grout. We kept the rest of the space light. Shower wall tile is an iridescent white zellige, shower floor is variegated white/gray marble, countertops are a creamy white marble without veining. 

I wouldn’t say it’s an easy floor to keep clean—we have blonde dogs and I apply powder lavishly after my nightly shower. 

ETA: I think it’s modern looking but what I wanted was large scale tile and less grout—easier to maintain. 

We have a large scale square tiles on our bathroom floors. We like it. Tile size depends on the square footage in your bathroom. You don't want huge tiles in a small bathroom, and you don't want tiny tiles in a large bathroom.

With floor damage, it's possible your subfloor will need replaced. Do not skimp on replacing it if it's recommended.

Things to consider:

dark tiles made of any material -- will show everything
grout - I would use a darker grout (really, anything but white) and use an epoxy grout.
tile is easiest to maintain but most expensive
the smaller the tiles the more grout lines and cutting, the costlier it will be
I would pick a pretty generic tile -- nothing too flashy and something that goes with lots of decor styles so that down the road, you don't feel like you have to change tile when you update your decor items.


You also really need to consider your homes value when deciding what to use. You don't want to go cheap on the bathroom remodel and then regret it when you go to sell. You will get 50-60% on average of whatever you spend on a bathroom remodel back when you sell.

And no, you shouldn't base all your home decisions on what will help you sell later, but it is something to take into account. You don't want to under remodel the space and you don't want to over remodel it either.

We have the same tile in the main floor bath that is in the kitchen, hallway, mudroom and laundry. All of these rooms are adjacent to each other. It’s very light beige and I hate it, especially the light colored grout which gets stained and always looks dirty in the main traffic areas. The master ensuite has large gray rectangle tiles and they’re SO much easier to keep clean. DD’s bath has big tan square builder grade type tile.

The tile we put in the main bath at the lake cabin is a larger, medium variegated color tile with darker grout and I *LOVE* it. It’s easy to keep clean and it doesn’t show every speck of light or dark lint or dog hair. Our basement bath there still has the tile look sheet vinyl that was put in before we tore our cabin down. It survived several years of use, being exposed to the elements for a whole winter while our cabin was torn down to the concrete basement walls, reconstruction of the ceiling and painting. It still looks good.

I wouldn’t use either LVP or laminate in a bathroom.

ETA: We put some cheap self stick tiles inside the bottom of all the bathroom vanities and under the kitchen sink. While it’s not perfectly waterproof, it definitely helps to protect the cabinets from small leaks and makes it so much easier to clean.

This is what we are about to put in both bathrooms and laundry room.

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When I had both upstairs bathroom floors changed a few years ago I picked the same LVT that I was also going to use downstairs in the kitchen, hallways, bathroom and laundry room.

My LVT is glued and grouted and has the look of slate. I love it. The tiles are about 16” square - the downstairs was laid on the diagonal, but not the upstairs bathrooms.

It’s variegated enough that it has some interest and doesn’t show everything. It has some texture to it so even though it can be a little slippery if it’s wet, it’s not slick like flat tile. I find it less hard than regular tile floors, and things don't break as easily if they get dropped.

A guy who was painting and doing other work for me told a friend what mine looked like and the friend asked for pictures and ordered the exact same thing, down to the grout color, and was thrilled with it.

It has been four years since the floors were installed and I’ve got no issues with them at all.

If you end up looking for tile locally, check out small flooring companies. They usually have piles of tile leftover from other projects and you can get great deals on them. 

Also, when ordering tile, you will need to order extra tiles to account for any tiles breaking, etc. Whoever lays your tiles down, make sure you get any leftover tiles back and save them in case you need to fix something down the road. Many homeowners will just let the tile worker have whatever is left over and don't save any leftover and then are screwed if they accidentally chip a tile or need to replace a tile. 

We just did a hall bathroom.
Did large rectangular tile on floor, and smaller hex tile in the shower. We had a designer help.

Ha! We used this tile in our master bathroom, but in 18*18 (or was it 20 in? I dunno and too lazy to measure) squares on the floor.

We moved into a house where the master bathroom has colored cement floors. It recently cracked. Not a fan. The do match the countertop.