We have been looking for ceramic tiles for a new bathroom. The choice appears to be between beige, beige, beige, grey and white. I have noticed the same choices in the US also. Why have the stockists given up on coloured tiles? I'm told that the minimum size is now 450 x 450mm as these are cheaper to produce and lay with fewer grout lines. 300 x 300mm seem to be an endangered species! Any comments?
Lack of tile colour choice
Jan 11, 2017
12 Replies
Does the chain Color Tile still exist over there? They were as ubiquitous as Wally Fart for many years when I lived there.
Just choose one and get on with it. Grey could be a key colour in the future so I'd vote for that! ;-)
Cheers, T i m
ISTR someone importing a batch from Morocco. They got whatever colour & size they wanted, and they were cheap. The standard of finish was poor, but the job looked good in the end.
NT
Yeah, a mate did similar but I'm not sure they were that 'cheap' at the final count.
The thing with that is whilst you can often make the best of what you have, you can waste a lot of tiles rejecting the really bad ones and that puts the cost up further. ;-(
Cheers, T i m
The glaze was very hit & miss, but overall the effect still looked good. Best to get a sample first methinks.
NT
Grey is a 1950s colour. It comes back for a few months every quarter century then goes back into unpopularity.
Whoosh ....
Cheers, T i m
Hence that best selling book,
1950's Shades of Grey.G.Harman
Anything fashionable will be soon be disdained for decades - not really what one wants for a bathroom. And in the case of grey, it's bound to become unfashionable especially fast.
Having once lived with diagonal pink striped tiles, trust me I do not want fashion in a bathroom.
NT
Try doing what I wanted to do, buy two tiles which matches a roomfull. Impossible.
I plan ahead and buy one extra box and put the spares under the bath or kitchen sink.
The room was tiled by the previous owner of the house.
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