Matching Wall Floor Grout Lines

Alternatively i can shift the floor half a tile over to kind of brick bond the wall floor.

Matching wall floor grout lines.

Back in the day when most tiles had cushion edges matching the grout lines between floor and wall tiles was a must. If your room is off square you might find the lines creeping off but should be ok in a bathrooom. If you are opting for a lighter tile on the floor then try darker grout lines as an easy clean option. The plan was to lay them running lengthways towards the end of the room and stack them horizontally on the right and left side walls.

If you re mixing and matching tiles in certain places around the room you can prioritise the more expensive tiles you love for a decorative feature and use more budget friendly options for the rest. My vision was for all the grout lines to match up but my tiler pointed out the grout has to be 3mm on the floor and that much grout on the wall will look too much. An interesting take on matching floor and wall tiles is to match the color and style but use different sizes. This was due to the shadowing between each tile a cushion edge tile crates the grout joint in turn would be wider which would make each tile more pronounced.

Having matching wall and floor tiles can also inhibit your choices if you re on a budget. To match grout lines or not to match grout lines is one of the most common questions a client will ask. The floor tiles will only stack up the wall about half way and then there will be subway tiles laid in a brick pattern to the ceiling. The centres of your tiles wall and floor need to be exactly the same so if the tiles are exactly the same size you have to use the same size spacers for wall and floor.

We had the same problem our wall tiles were 297x600 and floor tiles were 300x300 which meant that the grout lines where they met were out ever so slightly one end and continued to be more uneven as we went to the other side of the bathroom. Adding so called universal colorants is very iffy and i would avoid it. The easiest way to match an odd grout is to mix two colors together and experiment. In smaller rooms opting for larger floor tiles with less grout lines will reduce visual chopping and create the illusion of a space so why not create both differentiation and similarity at the same time by tiling the wall with a smaller scaled version of your floor tiles.

Setting out to follow the wall grout lines end up leaving three 25mm slivers along the long side of the shower tray it works fine everywhere else. Installing the large tiles on the floor and continuing up the walls with the smaller tiles creates a unified monochromatic look but it s broken up for greater visual interest. Using the same tiles wall and floor 450x450 rectified porcelain.