This was a very surprising visit to a shop recommended by many.  Really good stock, but you quickly see the fashion towards HUGE tiles which doesn’t suit our little shower rooms…  The other thing is that little window tiles as feature tiles are a lot more rare at the moment – but they had some!!

We are pretty keen on the grey and white part of the colour spectrum.

Here is the series of tiles and feature tile that we liked most today.  Marble-sih white and a pleasant feature window in keeping with our other two bathrooms.

We would probably go for a non-gloss (safety) dark or mid grey tile floor.  60×30 tiles are the fashion for floors certainly, which is what I think is in the family bathroom floor already.

Other stuff that got us thinking follows

below is a feature wall our daughter might like!!

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Did a visit to Naos Tiles of Tonbridge today.  Learned a lot.  They had some lovely product there, but mostly £50-£60 p sq m in price.

Looked a lot at a range called EC1.  The approach was so different :-

• tiles were 60×30 in the main
• just nine colours, but three textures, and three amounts of glossyness.
• feature tiles come laid out on a mesh mat
• choosing the grouting was an elaborate process
• sizes of tiles most commonly available need really large rooms
• these tiles seemed to change colour hugely in the light and whether they were flat of vertical
• cost and tile size invites half tiling, leaving some walls totally painted etc… hmm tricky