Tips for Tiling Your Shower with Ceramic Tiles

Ceramic tiles are ideal for kitchens, wet rooms, and any other rooms in your home. Perhaps where they shine the most is in your bathroom shower. Ceramic comes in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes, giving you endless options when it comes to design and style.

Tiles for Shower Floors

The tiles on the floor of the shower need to meet a few requirements: They need to be water-resistant, slip-resistant, and sized just right for the space of the shower. They also need to be able to stand up to the humidity and moisture in the shower. While stone and porcelain tiles are typical in many homes, ceramic is becoming more popular for homeowners.

Tile Shape

One of the most common choices for shower floors and walls are mosaic tiles. Not only is mosaic aesthetically pleasing to the eye, these smaller tiles can easily fit into the shape and slope of the shower floor. Mosaic tiles also have more grout lines than larger tiles, which helps to add texture and a slip-resistant surface.

When looking for mosaic ceramic tiles you’ll find a variety of choices for design. Hexagons, square patterns, and arabesques all add a unique style to the shower that can complement or contrast with the rest of your bathroom.

Ceramic Tile Color and Pattern

With so many colors and patterns available, it can be easy to go overboard on design. Build a color palette based on the vanity colors and cabinetry in the bathroom. One of the options for design is to match your ceramic shower tiles to the rest of the room to create a unified and flowing look. Another option is to go for a bold look and make a statement with contrasting hues that add a pop of color. And don’t forget grout color. You can build even more color by using colored grout between the tiles.

Types of Ceramic Tile

Ceramic tiles and Porcelaine tiles can be either unglazed or glazed. Unglazed tiles are manufactured by using different types of clays that are ground and combined together into a fine powder. This powder is then blended with water and formed into tiles. Glazed tiles go through one further step in the manufacturing process. The surface of the tile is coated with a glaze that gives it a glossy look.

Finalizing the Look

Once you’ve come up with the perfect color scheme and design for your shower tiling it’s time to add the final touches with a shower faucet, handles, and a shower head that makes a statement of their own. Shower heads come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes, including square and circular. Or consider an overhead rain shower head that can give you a waterfall experience when showering. Coating on shower fixtures varies as well and includes stainless steel, polished chrome, brushed nickel, or the new trend of oil-rubbed bronze.

Let the professionals help you when it comes to choosing and installing ceramic tiles in your shower. Contact Ceramique au Sommet for their expert advice and answers to all your questions.