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Our house is 40 years old, some of the bathrooms are original. The bathroom floor has this really "nice" pattern of blue tiles. Besides "dated," "ugly," "in need of redoing"... does this pattern have a name? My wife wanted to do some research to see if there was anything short of replacing the floor to improve the look.
[insert joke and ridicule here]
Oh yeah, I know the grout needs some cleaning... that's easy.
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I have the exact same ones in brown.
except mine are starting to pop out.
I just put them back.
I stopped vacuuming in there so I wouldn't lose any. :-)
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I've always called them old 1 inch tiles.
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I like it. Just clean it and use plain fluffy white towels, chrome accessories.
Have you noticed they are bringing that look back on the sly with the Italian glass tiles.
I saw where a woman in CA did one bathroom green and another bright pink, for "spa" like bathrooms in a multi million dollar home
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I think it's called random or maybe pink noise, but in this case blue noise
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just make up a name, like "Carribean Surf" or "Topless Bondi Blue" mosaic or something <>.
Mine would be New England Crushed Granny Granite
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Clean that grout, seal it and try some car wax.
Maybe the trim tiles could be enough to get you the change you want -- BUT you didn't say if you
have matching tub/sink/toilet. When that is the case, I'd be inclined to get someone to hand paint or
get clear patterned decals to apply to remove the uniformity of the baseboard tiles.
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Somewhere in America... it's morning... and it's still 1968.
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We call that the "Lazy Man Pattern" The small tiles are sold glued onto 12" square mesh backing 'sheets' that are then laid onto the thinset like large tiles. this allows the tile setter to finish the room very quickly and with a minimum of actual tiles to cut.
What you have would be called Mosaic tiles. The standard size is 3/4" square on 1/8" spacing
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At least it's not the "yuck" green version my house use to have!
Yes, you remember correctly. The yuck green and harvest gold decorating motif of the mid 70's. :confused:
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I have that in pink. All the way up the walls.
