ᐅ Sealing plaster as an alternative to tiles

Hello everyone, what alternatives to traditional tiles can you recommend? Long-term experiences would be especially helpful. Or is there really no way around the good old tile?

The walk-in showers will be fully tiled. In the bathrooms, we are planning to use luxury vinyl flooring on the floor. We originally didn’t want to install tiles around the bathtub, toilet, and sink. Our painter friend advised against this and recommended tiles instead. According to him, all the paint colors he knows would have a gloss and therefore look different from the rest of the wall areas.

In a neighbor’s shower, the sloped wall was not tiled. The shower is also brand new. There, the wall was simply painted, and according to their painter, it works fine. If I remember correctly, the wall was not glossy.

Self-compacting concrete could be a solution. Take a look at, for example, Carament and similar products!

Hello

We have painted glass in the showers

Olli

For example, the company Dold offers a system like this for seamless bathrooms.
What I don’t quite understand is: the color and gloss will always differ from the tiles, right? I would simply paint the rest of the bathroom with the color or system. Then the gloss level or color difference wouldn’t matter.
In many cases, a good paint is sufficient, and you don’t need a waterproof coating.
For example, in the guest bathroom, we will use the Dold system for the shower enclosure. The rest will be painted with a paint that has a high wet abrasion resistance rating (including around the sink). It’s not like the walls are constantly exposed to water…

Thank you for the feedback. I didn’t want to paint the entire bathroom since the walls are supposed to remain "open." I don’t want to seal the walls with paint and thereby promote poor air quality and mold growth in the bathroom.

There are appropriate colors for that. And it’s a myth that walls breathe.
Do you not have a ventilation system?