Creating illusions for your eye can do great things for design. In this case, a very simple trick is able to make your bathroom feel larger. Most of us don’t have the grand bathrooms exhibited to us in magazines or within this ideabook. But that’s the great thing about this trick. Whether big or small, taking your shower entirely into the ceiling will raise your space and make it feel larger.
I think there are not any principles in design, so there is no right or wrong way in laying your tile in this issue. It’s a trick I use and are pleased with the outcome. In some cases it works; for others, it may not be the optimal solution. Each homeowner must discuss tastes with their contractors or designers so as to install a shower which works best visually to them.
Dijeau Poage Construction
Tile into the ceiling gives this shower a larger-than-life feel. The larger scaled tiles also helped with that effect.
Hint: The larger the tile the larger your area will appear.
Mitchell Construction Group
You can see the effect of carrying tile into the ceiling in this bathroom, connecting the shower into the skylight and making the feeling of a taller area.
Isabel Beattie @ K Cabinets Oakville
This shower stays big looking even using a dim tiled ceiling.
There was really no help needed in making this shower appear big — it already is! But tiling all of the way up into the pitched ceiling was still a wise choice. It doesn’t force a rest in the wall and it pulls your attention all the way up into the circular window and gorgeous beams.
Natalie DiSalvo
Using contrasting tiles can break up the space, especially when the darker tile is on top. Taking the tile into the ceiling draws the eye up, and laying the tiles vertically retains the colored tile from feeling heavy.
Gaspar’s Construction
Another great reason to take tile higher: You are able to mount your shower fixture greater, which is a necessity if somebody in your household is tall.
Linda Yowell Architects
This technique still works flawlessly in a smaller toilet.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
Another little bathroom with a dropped ceiling in the shower. Tiling all of the way up was surely a fantastic move here.
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