A tasteful and chic bathroom can be achieved by correctly using tiles; it will also be co-ordinated. You should consider some interior design principles to avoid ending up with a style disaster!

Bathroom tiles are now very much seen as a critical way of ensuring that your bathroom looks elegant chic but also timeless. If you choose bathroom tiles that are exceptionally fashionable, they can look somewhat dated in a few years. It is better to use tiles that will never go out of fashion. They will still look chic in the coming years.

One look that has been very popular is a wall of cream tiles (or equivalent) with a band of colour midway up the wall, breaking up the colour and providing a break to the eye. Whilst this still can look stylish, it can be seen up and down the country in thousands: if not millions of bathrooms.

To create splashes of colours, the random use of coloured ceramic bathroom tiles from the same range, can interject colour, but look stylish and contemporary, without creating a style that will easily date.

For a stylish and chic appearance try using larger tiles, they also take much less time to install. Mosaic tiles are acceptable around the wash hand basin or shower/bath, but they can date very quickly.

Many people try to emulate far grander bathroom designs within a tiny, standard bathroom. If you are tempted to go for the look of the ultrachic hotel bathroom you stayed in when in Paris: don’t! If the space is smaller than the original then it just won’t work. Take some of the key features of the bathroom such as the shower, hand basin and copy the style using your own taste and style to guide you in your choice of tiles. This insures the tiles or the correct size for the room.

In a small bathroom, go for small tiles as large ones can make the room look even smaller.

Start thinking about the size and shape of your bathroom, and how the tiles will wear in the years to come. Be realistic when designing, you have to be realistic with what you have to work with.