Bathroom Design Ideas With White Subway Tiles And Borders

If we look at the history of design, according to Benna Crawford, the usage of white subway tiles was in the underground of New York City. The standard size comes in 3-by-6-inch. The use of the glazed ceramic tiles then turned from subway to trendy pre-war apartments for kitchen backsplash and bathrooms. Today, you can find more variation of the tiles; typically twice as long as they are wide, show up in every kind of modern decor. White subway tile with an inset border lets you create a classic bathroom design.

The idea of Mix and match tile adds a sense of whimsy to a bathroom and a subtle variation in neutral colour highlights the design. When walls are covered to shower stall height in white subway tile, an eye-level band of grey penny tile with white grout defines the borders of the room. Floors of white penny tile with dark grout run counterpoint to the subway tile and the border colour scheme. The insertion of the smaller, geometric penny tile enlivens the stark white of the bathroom. Painting the upper one-third of the wall soft grey against a white ceiling finishes a perfectly harmonious look.

You can break up a shower and tub surrounded by white subway tile with a chest-height border of skinny, rectangular, variegated green glass tiles. The white tile is smooth and shiny; the green tile shimmers like a Gulfstream running through the sea of white. Add fluffy towels and a bath rug in the same shades of green that are in the tile border, but keep the rest of the bathroom all white.

While an open, cut out shower stall covered in horizontal white subway tile gets edgy with thin borders of narrow turquoise tile outlining the ceiling-height tiled wall, the shoulder-height cut out section, and the shallow curb at the bottom that keeps the water in and guides it down the drain. The border brings out the architectural feature of the shower cut out and adds a note of colour to the monotone space. You can create additional definition by a double band of turquoise tile set into a white subway tile floor that traces the shape of the shower stall and runs around the perimeter of the room about a tile’s length from the wall. Give more accent in that bathroom with turquoise towels and a turquoise glass bowl sink set on a white laminate cabinet.

When you want to decorate a kid’s bathroom, you can apply this decoration idea. A combination of white subway tile bathroom with a wide tile border at chair rail height works for a kids’ bathroom as well as a vacation house. Use hand-painted ceramic tiles with simple sailboat cartoons for the border. Stick to a single colour for the boat outline to avoid getting too kitschy. Add accents from the sea to this nautical theme — towels with appliqued seashells, a clear shower curtain with dolphin or fish silhouettes the same colour as the boat tiles, stencilled jellyfish and cephalopods on the eggshell white walls above the subway tile.