Do fully tiled bathrooms look cold and clinical?

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Designing a bathroom is a highly complicated task, particularly around choosing the right materials that offer the perfect intersection between practicality and style. The most common design style for bathrooms is the use of tiles given they offer the walls and floors protection from water damage and also create a seamless wet room aesthetic if completely tiled.

Interior design is largely a personal choice, so the extent at which to tile a bathroom will ultimately come down to the individual. There are a number of opinions on the look of half tiled bathrooms vs fully tiled bathrooms but some interior designers believe that fully tiled bathrooms can look “cold and clinical”.

Interior Designer Abigail Beddow. Photo Credit: @thebeddowspace instagram

Interior designer Abigail Beddow, who specialises in attainable luxury decor choices, and runs the interior design studio, theab_interiors, had some thoughts to share. Abigail agrees “yes [all tiled] does look cold and can look clinical”.

Some interior designers believe that the all tiled look can give off an inexpensive taste that does not look particularly stylish. Whilst that can be disheartening, it is not all doom and gloom for the all tiled bathroom style because “there are ways to suppress [it]” Abigail challenges.

Abigail shares her advice on how to revitalise the cold and clinical look by adding “some warmth using texture, perhaps a rug or a wooden vanity unit”. She also adds “you can also have one wall or partial [wall] with no tiling where you can paint and add another warm colour that would subdue the environment”.

Whether you are looking for a luxury bathroom look or have concerns around an all tiled bathroom, Abigail co-signs that “many luxurious bathrooms have [the all tiled] design”.

Ultimately, styling preferences are always going to have different opinions and whether your personal style suits an all tiled bathroom or not is down to personal choice.

Visit www.theabigailcreatives.com for interior design and styling services. Follow Abigail Beddow on Instagram @thebeddowspace for more interior styling tips.

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