How To Pick The Best Bathroom Wall Tile For Your Home

Do you get nervous twitches when you have to go to a tile retailer and pick out wall tiles? Does it feel like there is just too much choice and you have no idea how to choose what’s best for your home?

There are so many different types of bathroom wall tiles to choose from that it can be hard to know where to start. Should you go with ceramic or porcelain? Matte or glossy? Plain or textured?

Luckily for you, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide on how to choose the best tile for bathroom walls that are going to compliment your style and improve the quality of your home. We'll help you narrow down your options and make the process as easy as possible.

How To Pick The Best Bathroom Wall Tiles For Your Home

Using these questions as a guide to the best type of tile for bathroom walls can help you to narrow down what kind of tiles you should be focused on choosing. Ask yourself these questions to clarify exactly what your space is, what your style is, and what you’re trying to achieve in the space.

1. How big is your space?

Do you have a large, spacious bathroom to renovate? Or do you have a narrow, small space to work with? Knowing the size of your space will help you choose the style of tile you need as well as help you calculate the cost of the tiles too.

2. What style or look are you going for?

Are you wanting to create an eclectic, mid-century look? Are you wanting to create a minimalist, neutral look? Or perhaps a Hamptons-beach look? Knowing the style of the bathroom you’re wanting to create is an essential step in solidifying before you can decide what type of tiles are best for bathroom walls.

3. What will you be pairing the tiles with?

In the bathroom are you going to do a mixture of larger tiles with mosaic accents? Or will you be pairing tiles with wallpaper or paint? Will the floor be tiled too or will it be another kind of surface like painted concrete or laminate? Understanding what the finished product will look like in terms of finishes is important.

4. What is your price range?

With any kind of design or renovation project, it’s essential to define the boundaries of your price range from the beginning. What are you ideally wanting to spend and what can you not go over?

What are the different types of bathroom wall tiles?

When it comes to types of bathroom wall tiles, there are several options available to you. At CTM, you’ll find a wide selection of wall tiles to suit your dream bathroom now. Here are our best sellers:

Ceramic

Ceramic tiles are the most popular, low-cost option for types of wall tiles for bathrooms. Ceramic tiles are great if you’re doing a larger surface area and come in a range of colours and textures. They also pair really well with a range of decorative tiles too.

Porcelain

Porcelain tiles bring a sophisticated elegance to a bathroom space. They are water resistant and really durable, so are great for wet areas like bathrooms, showers and around baths.

Marble Look

Marble look tiles give the effect of marble but at a more affordable price. You can get marble look tiles in a range of colours and colour textures at CTM and are a wonderful, contemporary addition to any bathroom space.

Stone Cladding

The stone look is very popular in bathrooms today, especially in homes that have a more earthy, game-lodge-type feel. Stone cladding can bring a really warm, interesting feel to a bathroom space and is generally done as one or two feature areas or walls in a home.

Cement Look

Cement is also a super popular look right now and can give a bathroom space an air of modern sophistication. Cement is a great natural palate to pair brighter, textured decorative tiles with.

Subway Tiles

Subway tiles have been a popular choice for many years now for bathrooms. They are available in so many colours now including glass-coloured tiles and bevelled tiles too. They are very versatile too because they can work as tiles for a feature wall or for an entire room too.

Decorative Tiles

Decorative tiles like mosaics, tozzetti, borders and listelli and spotters bring interest and quirkiness to a bathroom space. These tiles should never be the main tile in the space but should rather act as splashes of colour or interest to draw the eye into a specific space.

Tips for choosing the best bathroom wall tiles

We are the specialist when it comes to anything tile-related and we like to think we’ve come up with a few very handy tips over the years for choosing the best bathroom wall tiles. Here are our top tips now;

Larger tiles can actually make smaller spaces look bigger.
Different sized tiles – like décor or mosaic tiles – can also expand the room and make it appear bigger
The general rule is to use larger neutral tiles on the floor and mosaic or décor tiles on the walls. But this does not always have to be the case.
For wet areas like in the shower or around a bath, make sure you use tiles that are non-slip or have smaller space in between them (therefore more grout) in order to prevent slipping.

We know choosing the perfect tile style and texture can be daunting to both your design sense and your back pocket, so we’ve developed two state-of-the-art apps to help you understand what you’re creating before you actually sign on the dotted line.

Try out our Tile Visualiser Tool to get a real-life look and feel for what the tiles you love would look like in your home.

Use the CTM tile calculator to get an accurate quote on the cost of the tiles you love before you start your project too.