Dear forum,
Our quote includes tiles in the above size at 30 euros per square meter (approximately $30 per square yard) including installation. Our general contractor has also openly mentioned that many homeowners choose a larger format. This would be significantly more expensive due to the need for a second worker, more difficult installation, and increased material usage. I find myself wavering daily between "there's no need to follow every trend" and "maybe I'll regret the smaller formats for the next 40 years."
My parents-in-law recently installed a bathroom with this size of tile, which we like very much. We have planned to use the tiles for the hallways, entrance area, kitchen, and bathrooms. Using different tiles is not an option for us.
Could you please share your experiences and feedback?
Our quote includes tiles in the above size at 30 euros per square meter (approximately $30 per square yard) including installation. Our general contractor has also openly mentioned that many homeowners choose a larger format. This would be significantly more expensive due to the need for a second worker, more difficult installation, and increased material usage. I find myself wavering daily between "there's no need to follow every trend" and "maybe I'll regret the smaller formats for the next 40 years."
My parents-in-law recently installed a bathroom with this size of tile, which we like very much. We have planned to use the tiles for the hallways, entrance area, kitchen, and bathrooms. Using different tiles is not an option for us.
Could you please share your experiences and feedback?
Schimi17914 Apr 2021 07:46ypg schrieb:
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I like grout lines!
...Anyone who knows your vanity immediately believes that 🙂We don’t really like grout lines that much. With 120cm x 120cm (47 inches x 47 inches) tiles, there are still plenty of grout lines left for us 🙂
The only place where six tiles meet in a star pattern is at the transition between the living room and kitchen – to me, that’s a ‘work of art.’
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ypg schrieb:
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In the end, it also depends on the overall look: floor, pattern, and interior style... Many tiles also rely heavily on the grout pattern...
...Our floor ‘comes to life’ because of the surface texture, meaning the tile design itself, less so because of the grout pattern. Too many grout lines would be distracting there. ypg schrieb:
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Anything larger than 60x60 (24 inches x 24 inches) or similar could already be replaced with linoleum, since grout lines no longer matter.Seriously?
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Pinkiponk4 Apr 2021 08:56Myrna_Loy schrieb:
That depends a lot on the style of the house, the layout of the rooms, and the interior design. You can’t really make a general statement. My cousin had 80 x 80 cm (31.5 x 31.5 inches) tiles installed throughout the ground floor, and it doesn’t look good everywhere because cutting such large formats reduces their elegance. In the hallway and bathroom, I think it looks quite bad. Do you have the time and willingness to elaborate on this? Your comment sounds like you have a good sense of judgment. We are planning to install tiles throughout the entire house—probably the same ones everywhere, likely a light wood-look—and I would appreciate any advice on what we could do right or wrong. I’m not interested in following trends; it just needs to look nice. ;-)
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Pinkiponk4 Apr 2021 09:01Steffi33 schrieb:
We chose the tile size 60x40cm (24x16 inches) and also faced the question “lengthwise or widthwise?” To decide, I accurately drew the tiles to scale on our floor plan... sometimes lengthwise, sometimes widthwise. Anyone who knows our house will understand the choice we made 😉 I have a question: Should the tiles be laid in the walking direction, meaning oriented toward the door you enter through? I get the impression this feels more "inviting" than laying them "across," which almost acts like a barrier or block. Or am I just imagining things? Also, what effect do diagonally laid tiles have?
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majuhenema4 Apr 2021 09:10Steffi33 schrieb:
We decided on the tile size 60x40cm (24x16 inches) and faced the question “lengthwise or widthwise?”. To figure it out, I drew the tiles to scale in our floor plan… sometimes lengthwise, sometimes widthwise. Anyone familiar with our house will know what we chose 😉 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! 🙂 Are the photos available here or in the forum, and could you maybe link them?
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Myrna_Loy4 Apr 2021 09:11Well, I don’t have much expertise, just a lot of opinions 🙂
In my view, oversized tiles only look good if they don’t have to be cut. Otherwise, it’s obvious that the space can’t accommodate the format properly. It looks like a design that was intended but not well executed.
Also, I’m not a fan of wood-effect tiles. That’s partly because of the idea of imitation itself, but also from practical experience—tiles with such textures are difficult to clean. In my last rental apartment, these tiles were in the hallway. I ended up buying a steam cleaner just because of this light gray floor that always looked dirty. And I’m not usually someone who’s obsessed with cleaning.
I quite like the 30 x 60 cm (12 x 24 inch) format for modern detached houses. Large-format tiles, for me, are more suitable for modern villas with very spacious rooms. For our old, oddly shaped house, we are using natural stone in the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen, laying it with minimal grout joints of 2 mm (0.08 inch). We’re also using classic smaller formats of 20 x 20 cm (8 x 8 inch) and 15 x 15 cm (6 x 6 inch) in the narrow hallway. With less than 60 square meters (about 645 square feet), this is financially manageable.
In my view, oversized tiles only look good if they don’t have to be cut. Otherwise, it’s obvious that the space can’t accommodate the format properly. It looks like a design that was intended but not well executed.
Also, I’m not a fan of wood-effect tiles. That’s partly because of the idea of imitation itself, but also from practical experience—tiles with such textures are difficult to clean. In my last rental apartment, these tiles were in the hallway. I ended up buying a steam cleaner just because of this light gray floor that always looked dirty. And I’m not usually someone who’s obsessed with cleaning.
I quite like the 30 x 60 cm (12 x 24 inch) format for modern detached houses. Large-format tiles, for me, are more suitable for modern villas with very spacious rooms. For our old, oddly shaped house, we are using natural stone in the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen, laying it with minimal grout joints of 2 mm (0.08 inch). We’re also using classic smaller formats of 20 x 20 cm (8 x 8 inch) and 15 x 15 cm (6 x 6 inch) in the narrow hallway. With less than 60 square meters (about 645 square feet), this is financially manageable.
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