Matching bathrooms in new build?

Hi Kirradog,
We had our Bathroom/Ensuite/Powder/Laundry matching - same tiles, same basins, same taps, same laminate and benchtop. I think it makes the house flow nicely, plus it was way too hard to choose different colours for them all!

We did floor to 1.5m height tiling on the walls through the builder, looks great. We are planning on getting it done all the way to the ceiling a bit later down the track, it would have cost way too much getting the builder to do it!!

I am having the same floor tiles, vanities, WC, benchtops and wall tiles in all Bathroom, toilets, Ensuites Powder rooms etc. The Master Ensuite will have different floor tiles as we wanted it to be a little different. We are having the same dark nougat marble that we are having on the bench tops and up one wall as a feature.

The floor for the rest will be the same as our floor for the downstairs so that it all flows. Cabinets are all white lacquer to keep it simple.

When we met with the interior designer she recommended going the same to keep the flow but to "bling" up the downstairs Powder Room and the Master Ensuite.

I think it should look nice but in reality I am not sure anyone will actually notice as the chances of being in multiple bathrooms is unlikely.

It is very hard to decide (especially for me) and we wanted a simple but classy look to those areas.

Good luck.....

Ciao
Mark

in two ensuite bathrooms i had the same colors brown
in the main i decided on a different color going with a black and white theme including the freestanding black and white bath . in this bathroom and toilet vanity area also went with floor to ceiling tiles well worth it
the main bathroom is well away from the other two ensuites

Ours are totally different...seem to be the odd one out lol

We matched our main bathroom and powder room with the tiles used through the living/dining/entry and halls. They have matching bench and cupboards.

We have matched our laundry to the kitchen as it is directly behind it but they have different coloured splash backs.

Our ensuite is totally different to the rest of the house but the colour of the cabinets was the inspiration for our dark feature paint colour that we used throughout the house so it does all go together but just a very different theme in ensuite.

If you want full height tiling just be aware that if you do it after handover you might have extra costs to remove and replace the cornice so it sits on the tiles or you could tile up to the edge of the cornice.

My main bath, powder room and main bed ensuite match. Light cream floors and dark wood cupboards

The laundry and the kids ensuite match - grey floors and white cupboards

I'd actually ask for one further:
We're thinking we'll make the kitchen, bathroom/ensuite and laundry all the same colours. Would that be weird?

Good questions! I'm tossing up about tiling to the ceiling too. It looks awesome, but I haven't looked into costing yet.

Re matching tiles selections, I do think it looks best if there is some common theme throughout. So the tiles don't necessarily have to be identical, but perhaps all the same colour with different size and shape, or maybe all the same feature tile with different main tile, etc.
We had a walk through a nearly completed custom build home with a builder when we were first looking at different builders last year and I remember thinking it looked so odd that the ensuite was nothing like the other rooms. So the kitchen, bathroom, powder room and laundry were IDENTICAL with tiles and feature tiles (almost too matchy matchy) and were all a beige tile with a blue and green strip of mosaic feature tile. And then the bathroom was black and white tiling. Completely different with no apparent reference to the rest of the house. To me, it looked odd and helped me decide then that I want some common theme to tie the styling of the whole house together.

hmmm I personally am going for consistency. I think I will also be doing floor to ceiling tiles as well. Its crazy expensive though, I sure hope the colours go well together.

There is no rule, do what you like! My philosophy, you'll never see both rooms at once, so why should they be the same? I wanted to have fun with my ensuite and splash a bit of money around on full height tiling etc.

For a bit of consistency, I am tiling to 1m in the other bathroom and powder. Colour schemes below:


Ensuite
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Laundry is the same as the bathroom and powder, but has a Seal Grey formica benchtop.

So they aren't radically different, but not the same either.

Good luck making your selections!

I love those colours! Can I bother you to ask what the cabinetry colour is and the floor tile name?