White has been used in bathrooms for decades. Opponents of the design of this color compare this bath with the ward in the hospital and confidently declare that such a room repels the coldness. White bathroom tile, as they consider, is impractical and mark material.
However, there are many owners of houses and apartments who want to finish their bath in white. Especially since when combined with other colors, using accents and playing with light, as well as the right selection of sanitary ware and decor, a white bathroom is quite capable of becoming a cozy and warm room.
Features
For a very long time, the tiling of white color refers to popular bathroom finishes. Although there are people who consider white tiles to be whimsical and impractical material, most people perceive white tile as a basis for stylish modern design, as it can be diluted by other colors at will, as well as using various other design solutions.
It is easy to care for the white coating, and besides, on such a tile the plaque appearing after drops of water is less noticeable. White tiles can serve as a universal background for absolutely any decor. Only by replacing accessories, you can transform the bathroom cardinally at least every month.
White tile is not an irritating and discreet material, so it is often chosen for finishing the room, which spend a lot of time - bathroom, kitchen and others. It is because many associate white color with purity that such a tile is often chosen to decorate the bathroom. The psychological influence of white tiles in the interior is manifested by a sense of calm and comfort. In this interior, there is lightness, transparency and freedom.
Advantages of
The main advantages:
- The bathroom becomes more spacious and light.
- Promotes visual expansion of space.
- Corrects the appearance of disproportionate rooms: if the room is narrow and elongated, then the walls that you want to visually enlarge are covered with white tiles, and other walls are trimmed with a darker shade.
- Ability to create any interior style in the bathroom. White is the perfect background, on which any decorative items and accessories will look great.
- Easy to transform the interior. This bathroom can never get bored, because the simple addition of any bright color or original accessory immediately transforms it into a completely different perceived space.
Classic combinations of
Consider classic combinations that are very often used in design. Being contrast, they bring bright accents and make the design much more interesting.
White-black
This combination is very successful and can visually both increase the space of the bathroom, and add to it originality and style.
The cladding in the white and black range can be represented by several options:
- White walls and black floor. Such interior differs strictness of outlines. Plumbing equipment in such a bathroom is most often chosen in white.
- Finishing both walls and floors with white and black ceramic tiles. The cladding can be with single inclusions of black tile or with its symmetrical arrangement. Such an interior is referred to as extravagant and spectacular.
- Finishing the lower part of the walls with black tiles, and the top of the walls - white, with a division of their decorative frieze. This design looks very elegant. The black zone can have different heights - both large enough and minimal.
White-red
Red in the white bathroom can be added and by mounting bright sanitary ware, accessories or furniture, and using red tiles along with white in the wall lining.
For example, you can decorate the walls with a red border or highlight a red tile mirror. This color combination invigorates and improves mood.
Other colors can be added to the combination of red and white, for example, gold, coffee, silver, chocolate, turquoise.
Combination with other shades and colors
In addition to the classic white-black and white-red combinations, the bathroom can be finished according to your wishes using other colors. White ceramic tiles perfectly match with orange, yellow, green or blue tiles. On a white background any bright color will look even brighter and more colorful.
White tiles are perfectly combined with all pastel shades, allowing you to create classic interiors.
If you combine white with sand, brown and beige hues, you can decorate the room in the Egyptian style.
Wishing to design a bath in country style, a combination of white + brown is also chosen.
Design options
Choosing the main color for the interior of the bathroom white, you have a lot of interesting design variations. The use of white tile gives a huge scope for creativity.
After adding gloss, you will get a glamorous bathroom, using accessories and accessories of golden color, create a classic interior, and after using wood trim and putting live plants, you can turn the room into a home spa.
The solution to finish the bathroom with white tiles is beneficial not only aesthetically, but also practically. In the future, thinking about the cardinally new style of the room, you do not need to completely change the facing, and you will only have to change the decor and use other accents.
Of course, the option of finishing the bathroom, when the walls only white ceramic tiles, and the bath, furniture and washbasin also white, looks uncomfortable and not very attractive. Getting into such a bathroom, you will immediately remember about medical institutions or industrial buildings.
The first way to avoid this, if you still want a completely white bathroom - use not white, but almost white color. If you want cool, buy a white tile with a bluish tint, and if you want to make the interior "warmer" stop on a white tile, which has a beige tint.
You can also buy white ceramic tiles with a "stone" finish - the room will remain white, but it will not look like the interior of the hospital.
To convert a white bathroom can add a small amount of another color. It can be a small mosaic or curb - even with a small colored interspersion the interior will look quite different.
About the design of tiles in the bathroom read our other article.
An interesting idea is also the use of color grouting.
The game with textures, textures and rhythm
Those who still do not want to dilute the white bathroom interior with a different color, there is an opportunity to avoid associations with the hospital, if you play on the features of the surface of the tile. Now in building stores wall, as well as floor white tiles are represented by many types, differing in pattern, texture, imitation.
After decorating the walls with smooth white tiles, add a little tile to it with different monophonic ornaments and patterns. You can combine smooth surfaces and textured, or try to play with the rhythm - to combine in one interior a white tile of different sizes( a large tile to combine with a small tile, similar to a mosaic).
How to give coziness
Completely white or white and black bathroom looks cold, and to make the white bathroom cozier and warmer, you can take advantage of such tricks:
- For finishing white tiles to choose with the original texture and texture. Think of matte and glossy combinations, adding tiles with patterns, choosing a tile with a stone imitation or similar techniques.
- To supplement white walls with bright impregnations, for example, with colored tiles or decorative friezes, stripes, mosaic elements and others.
- To finish the bathtub is not boiling-white, but close to the white shade of the tile( for "warm" interior choose beige, cream, milk).
- Add bright accents and colored decor elements( rugs, towels, curtains, baskets, soap dishes, etc.), as well as color plumbing.
- Affect the lighting. You can add more color by installing wall sconces and more fixtures on the ceiling. Also, you can add color shades to the lighting, due to which white ceramic tiles will look in a different key.
- If the walls are white, then the floor is covered with a neutral or colored finishing material.
