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Choosing your bathroom’s tiles is a crucial step when designing or refurbishing this room, with regard to both its convenience and your intended final overall design scheme.
Bearing in mind that often a bathroom might be much smaller than other rooms in the home, this could be a good opportunity for experimenting with brighter, more appealing colours.
Giving your bathroom a touch of colour can transform it so it truly expresses your personality, creating an interior in your own, unique taste. So let’s check out the rules for using coloured tiles in your bathroom, an interior design strategy that’s fast growing in popularity.
Factors to be considered when choosing the colour of bathroom tiles
One factor you can bear in mind when deciding the colour of your tiles is the amount of daylight the room receives, which affects the way in which colours and textures are perceived. The effects of using coloured tiles in your bathroom will vary depending on whether it’s lit by natural or artificial light, so a bit more care is required when choosing them.
Apart from the lighting, also give careful consideration to matching with the sanitary fixtures and accessories in your bathroom. Although white sanitary fixtures are usually the standard option, some combinations may be more suitable if less usual colours are chosen. A good general rule is to bear in mind the bathroom’s entire range of colours, including its furnishings and surfaces, to achieve a visual cohesion that supports your intended overall effect.
Trendy colours for bathroom tiles
Colour plays a fundamental role in interior design, and the bathroom’s no exception: the right shade will shape not only the room’s aesthetic but also its mood and how its space is perceived.
Especially when tiling a small bathroom, the choice of colour can define how large the room appears to be.
The most fashionable bathroom design trends embrace a large variety of colours and shades: from the most delicate and natural to the brashest and brightest. Dark colours like deep blue and green have become very popular over the years as they create an intimate, relaxing mood. On the other hand, pastel colours and brighter shades add light, energy and vibrancy to an otherwise characterless space.
If you prefer to use pale or neutral shades in your bathroom, you might decide to provide extra colour only in specific areas, like the shower or the washbasin backsplash, to create bright focal points.
Dark blue bathroom tiles: an impression of calm and serenity
If you’d like a design scheme that evokes the image of the calm waters of the ocean, you can choose deep sea blue tiles for your bathroom; they’ll give the interior the right mood of tranquillity and serenity.
For example, check out the deep blue of our Confetto collection or the navy blue of the Chill collection, both with semi-matt effect and also available with minimalist yet refined 3D structure.
These shades go best with pale colours or whites: a pale wood-effect porcelain stoneware flooring will be ideal for emphasising the character and depth of dark blue tiles while keeping the mood fresh and airy and completing the interior with well combined colours in classical taste.
Green tiles for a nature-inspired bathroom
Green stoneware tiles transform your bathroom into a space inspired by the botanical world, perfect for anyone seeking a fresh, reinvigorating atmosphere.
To underline this bond with nature most effectively, choose wood-effect or stone-effect porcelain stoneware for the other coverings.
The right shade of green can make all the difference: if you have a small bathroom, light green or sage green, such as the one included in our Grande Resin Look collection, will help you to keep the space brighter and airier; fittings and details in neutral colours will add warmth and depth without sending the room into visual overload.
For a more daring choice, check out our Luz collection: small porcelain stoneware tiles with a glossy finish, available in a vast assortment of colours, including olive green.
A fresh, relaxing mood: reasons for choosing bright blue tiles for your bathroom
Bright blue in the bathroom is an invitation to tranquillity and relaxation, evoking a clear sky or the crystal-clear waters of a swimming-pool. This colour combines perfectly with both white and silvery finishes, to reflect the light and accentuate the sensation of freshness.
This colour is also excellent for covering just some parts of the bathroom, such as the shower enclosure, to create a contrast with the rest of the interior. Check out the Light Blue of our Colorblock collection for a bright graphic effect: the glossy stoneware tiles will add vibrancy and provide a wide array of compositional options.
Pink tiles for a bathroom with a retro air
Pink stoneware tiles will add a touch of sweetness to your bathroom and create a comfortable, welcoming interior. For a tasteful design scheme, consider metals in warm shades like gold or copper for the accessories and details: they’ll emphasise the warm hues of the pink.
Glossy or semi-matt effect, small tiles or large porcelain stoneware slabs, antique pink for a delicate ambience or bright pink: check out our Confetto, Grande Resin Look and Luz collections for the best solution for decorating your bathroom with pink tiles!
A colourful bathroom: combinations for coloured tiles
Decorating your bathroom with coloured tiles offers you a unique opportunity to express your personality and style with original coverings and combinations.
Choosing the right colour for your bathroom, bearing in mind your preferences and the room’s interior design needs, is a very important step in the design process. So here are some ideas about how to combine colours and materials to create a bright, attractive bathroom:
- Go for complementary colours like blue and orange or green and red for an energetic, vibrant design scheme. If you want a more restrained effect, use sweetly harmonised pastel shades.
- Bring in different textures to add depth and visual interest. Glossy tiles can be combined with natural wood features or matt tiles for an intriguing contrast.
- Use brightly coloured tiles to accentuate specific areas, such as the shower or the washbasin backsplash. With this strategy, you can create focal points that add interest without having to use coloured tiles for the whole room.
Not just colours, but shapes too: choose coloured hexagonal tiles for your bathroom
Clever use of colour can provide really creative effects, especially if you can also opt for an original size instead of the standard square or rectangular tiles. In this case, coloured hexagonal tiles are the perfect stylistic choice for your bathroom.
Their geometrical form lets you create intriguing patterns, and with creative combinations they can be included in interiors in both modern and more traditional, classical styles.
The possibilities are almost endless: the hexagonal tiles in our Cementum collection offer a decorative reinterpretation of concrete, ideal for sophisticated interiors in very modern taste; otherwise, go to the Lume collection for glossy-effect stoneware tiles that will add an extra touch of light to your bathroom.
All in all, choosing the right colour for the tiles of your bathroom is important for realising all this room’s potential. Coloured tiles can transform your bathroom into a place of serenity, vitality or sophisticated elegance, exactly as you prefer.
From nature-inspired bathrooms in delicate, neutral shades through to the most daring options with hexagonal tiles and colour combinations, Marazzi can offer you an almost infinite variety of colours and solutions.
Explore our vast porcelain stoneware selection and make your bathroom’s coverings unique!