Browse Forums Bathrooms and Laundry 1 Feb 11, 2012 4:17 pm Hi, We are considering using dark tiles with matching dark grout on our wet area floors. The wall tiling will be basic white. Has anyone done this? were you happy with it & do you have any pictures? Cheers, dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 2Feb 11, 2012 4:22 pm Hi we are having charcoal tiles with charcoal grout and white wall tiles in our bathroom, ensuite and laundry. Our tiling will not be done for a few more weeks but from pics I saw when we did our selections it looked great. Jasmin Hickinbotham Belmont - modified Signed: February 2011 Slab should go down before 2012 My build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52310&p=799483#p799483 Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 3Feb 12, 2012 12:12 am Thanks for that Jas. Looking forward to seeing your pics when its done It seems like a really practical way to go... (I love clean & simple colour schemes and I'm thinking with dark grout on the floor it will stay looking new & clean for a long time). Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 4Feb 12, 2012 12:53 pm Hi steveandmary (S&M?) Here are our bathrooms (apologies for the rubbish photos, but hopefully it'll serve its purpose). Our ensuite has white tiles on the wall & chocolate tiles & dark grout on the floor (goes with the carpet in our bedroom). The main bathroom has white tiles on the wall & large (600's) off-white polished porcelain tiles on the floor (same as the rest of the house). Thought I'd show you both so you can see what the white walls look like with both dark & light tiled floors. If your bathroom is of a reasonable size & has plenty of natural light, the dark tiles look good. If not, then go the pale tiles - it makes the bathroom feel bigger & maximises the amount of natural light that comes in. [img=http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/7345/img3437z.th.jpg] [img=http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/338/img3441h.th.jpg] "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain!" Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 5Feb 12, 2012 1:11 pm Sorry to hijack.Question for kezacheekychicken,floor tiles in main bathroom shower are they shinny porcelain? if yes are they very slippery when wet(soap etc) l have had both light and dark,imo they are both hard to clean. light-grout discolours dark-tiles show footprint,marks etc Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 7Feb 12, 2012 1:49 pm we did dark floor tiles with matching floor grout and light wall tiles with light grout. Love it Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 8Feb 12, 2012 4:22 pm Hi pattycake Floor tiles in both bathroom showers are polished porcelain. Wierdly enough, no, they aren't any more slippery than other shower tiles if you are just standing there quietly doing your business. Having said that, I wouldn't go putting them into one of those Mac-mansion showers that you could fit a footy team into (hmm, nude footy team). Sorry, I digress. For example, our laundry flooded recently (as laundrys tend to do when the drain hole sits proud of the floor) & I came very close to going A over T because I tried walking quickly over said wet porcelain tiles. I was an unco ice-skater with a mop there for a nano second. So: Standing - good. Walking, running, star-jumps - not good. Really not good. Ooooh, just noticed a big thunderstorm brewing behind me. I looove thunderstorms. Dumb blonde easily distracted by shiny things? Yep - thunderstorms & lightening are my shiny thing bling. "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain!" Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 9Feb 12, 2012 4:46 pm Thank you,l want shiny will go with it.No mac mansion or footy team. walk in shower(not to big)l have a plan on page 1,do you have a thread. Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 10Feb 12, 2012 5:20 pm Um, sorry, no. Still new to this gig. Sort of playing Follow the Leader at this point. "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain!" Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 11Feb 12, 2012 8:26 pm kexkez we did dark floor tiles with matching floor grout and light wall tiles with light grout. Love it so do i kexkez... looks great... i think its a go... thanks for your input everyone! Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 13Feb 12, 2012 8:44 pm the tiler put one row of the floor tiles as a border around all wall areas including inside our walk-in shower area.( would have looked odd to have changed to all wall tiles for the shower bit as ours is not a separate enclosed shower. Otherwise we'd have opted for light tiles on the entire shower walls) The rest of the wall tiles are all light coloured.(vanity splash back and all shower walls except first row) Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 14Feb 13, 2012 10:15 pm I have charcoal tiles with same color grout and white wall tiles.Love the colors, but DO NOT get matt floor tiles.I should have thought more about it and asked tile supplier for opinions but I was more focussed on the color and size than anything else.The matt tiles on the floor are hard to keep clean, show up every single water mark etc etc.the grout is fine though! Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 15Feb 14, 2012 11:11 pm mary23... are the floor tiles textured or mottled at all or are they a flat colour? do you think that would make a difference? what sizes for the floor & wall did you go for? Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 16Feb 15, 2012 9:32 am We have matte tiles on the floor and gloss on the walls.. darkish brown floor with similar grout and I have no problem keep them clean.. They show up water easily but they dry quite quickly too.. Not as easy to mop though, but I mop them every second time rather than everytime I go our gloss main floor tiles.. Gloss ones on the wall are great also, although an almond colour, not white. (you've seen pic in other thread).. They always look quite clean and are quite easy to clean also.. Building in Adelaide, SA Slab poured 08/09/2011 Handover 18/01/2012! WORLD CONCEPT HOMES Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44725 Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 17Feb 15, 2012 11:02 am As with many others above I opted for dark floor tiles (charcoal) with dark grout and light wall tiles (white) with light grout. I'm really happy with the look and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. Here's a pic FYI (obviously taken during construction; I'm not usually that messy lol) http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/af135/grom40/George018.jpg Interesting that others have said to steer away from matt floor tiles; mine are matt and I have no issues with keeping them clean. Good luck with the tough decision making process Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 18Mar 23, 2012 7:52 pm Hi guys. Not sure if this thread has died, but if not... We are also doing charcoal / ash tiles on the bathroom floors (grey granite in the ensuite and powder) with white walls. Question: how much did you pay for the darkened grout? We originally planned on doing darker matching grout but the quote we got was $12 p/sqm which just seems outrageous! The cheaper option is to use the standard cement colour grout (our tiler has two standard - white and cement). Has anyone used the cement coloured one and was it OK? Or what did you pay for matching dark grout? SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 19Mar 23, 2012 9:26 pm SunshineT Hi guys. Not sure if this thread has died, but if not... We are also doing charcoal / ash tiles on the bathroom floors (grey granite in the ensuite and powder) with white walls. Question: how much did you pay for the darkened grout? We originally planned on doing darker matching grout but the quote we got was $12 p/sqm which just seems outrageous! The cheaper option is to use the standard cement colour grout (our tiler has two standard - white and cement). Has anyone used the cement coloured one and was it OK? Or what did you pay for matching dark grout? we didn't have to pay for any type of grout. we chose our tiles before tender but we did not finalise our colour selections, eg colour of grout, until just before contract signing. either the builder didn't bother to change anything after tender OR the builder has already added the cost of most expensive grout into our tiles since the very beginning. dark floor tiles and grout in wet areas 20Mar 23, 2012 9:54 pm It cost us $180 to upgrade the grout colour for the ensuite, bathroom, toilet, laundry and front porch. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Jasmin Hickinbotham Belmont - modified Signed: February 2011 Slab should go down before 2012 My build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52310&p=799483#p799483 Hi All, I am looking to go with tiles instead of laminate timber flooring throughout my living areas for my new build (Ashbury 29 - Henley). My whole colour scheme is on… 0 24351 Hi All. 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