Bathroom Tiles

Bathroom tiles have to earn their place twice over: they need to look right, and they need to cope with water, steam and bare feet for years afterwards.

Everything here is porcelain, which is the reason we can offer the same tile across a shower wall and a bathroom floor without worrying about it. Porcelain absorbs almost no water, doesn't stain, and takes a marble or stone look convincingly enough that most people can't tell at arm's length.

If you're tiling a shower floor or a fully tanked wet room, filter by slip rating and look for R10 or better. For walls, that doesn't matter and you can choose purely on appearance — polished marble effects are popular here and work beautifully above a bath where nobody is standing on them.

Large format slabs cut down grout lines and make a small bathroom read as bigger. Brick and hexagon formats do the opposite and give a smaller room character. Both work; it depends whether you want the space to feel calm or interesting.

Order a sample before you commit. Bathroom lighting is unforgiving and a tile that looks warm in the showroom can read cold under an LED downlight.