Room · Collection
Bathroom tile
A bathroom is the one room where the tile is doing a job as well as looking like one. The floor has to grip when it is wet, the walls have to shed water for twenty years, and the shower has to be waterproof underneath the tile — not because of it. So the set here is chosen for those three things first: slip-rated porcelain for the floor, large formats and panels for the walls, and mosaics where a shower floor needs to fall to a drain.
Within that the range is wide. Marble-look porcelain in panels for a wall with two joints, subway and zellige for a wall with many, wood-look for a floor that carries through from the bedroom, and the natural stone and mosaic lines for the niche and the curb. The showroom has full wet-room vignettes built out, so you can stand in the corner and see how the wall meets the floor.
What we do first, before the tile, is the waterproofing — a bonded membrane, the standard's movement joints, a linear drain if the floor wants one. It is on the proposal as its own line, because it is the part of a bathroom you will never see and the part that decides whether the tile lasts.
The walls of a slab shower are their own subject — porcelain slabs on shower walls — and the install is tile installation.
In the showroom
Full slabs and full planks at 6823 14th St W, Bradenton — not sample chips. Bring the plans.
The pieces in this collection are being photographed. They are on the floor of the showroom now, and a call gets you the current stock list the same day.
Questions about bathroom tile
What slip rating does a bathroom floor need?
A wet one. The trade's test is ANSI A326.3, the dynamic coefficient of friction, and a tile carries a measured figure under it for a wet interior floor — ask for the number rather than the word "slip-resistant", which any surface can be called. The slip-rated porcelains in this collection are chosen for that figure first and their look second.
On a shower floor the answer is mosaic rather than a rating alone: small pieces mean more joints underfoot, and they are the only way a floor can fall properly to a drain. The wall can be a single sheet; the floor has to be many.
Can I put panels on the shower walls and small tile on the floor?
That is the standard bathroom here, and the reason the two are in one collection. Large formats and panels go on the walls — two joints where tile has a grid of them, and a marble look that reads as one piece — while the floor is a mosaic that falls to a linear drain, because a panel cannot be sloped.
The join between the two is a detail, not an afterthought: the wall sheet lands on the floor mosaic at the curb and the corner, and the membrane behind both is lapped as one. Porcelain slabs on shower walls is the long version.
Is the waterproofing part of the tile, or separate?
Separate, and it comes first. A shower is waterproof underneath the tile, not because of it: a bonded membrane over the whole enclosure, lapped into the pan and around the niche, with the standard's movement joints and a linear drain if the floor wants one. Porcelain itself is nearly waterproof; its seams are not, and a shower fails from behind, years later.
It is on the proposal as its own line, because it is the part of a bathroom you will never see and the part that decides whether the tile lasts. What a tile quote includes walks through the lines.
Can a wood-look porcelain floor run from the bedroom into the bathroom?
Yes — that is what the wood-look lines in this collection are for. The same tile carries through the doorway with no threshold strip, so the suite reads as one floor, and in the bathroom it is doing the job a real wood floor cannot: indifferent to water, and gripped when it is wet.
The one change is the finish. For the wet room choose the matte or textured version of the same line, which carries the wet slip figure, and keep the smoother one for the bedroom if the line offers both. The join is planned so the pattern runs through the door rather than restarting at it.
Sold here, installed by us
See it at full scale before you decide.
Twenty minutes in the showroom answers more than a week of scrolling. We lay the selections out on full slabs and tell you what each one needs underneath it.
