Visitor Cottage Weird Tile Ideas…The Enjoyable Continues

You know what I 100% shouldn’t be doing? Thinking about enjoyable tile concepts. The electrical and plumbing plans are due, and with out that getting completed, we are able to’t do any insulation, add wall paneling, flooring, set up our Quilt mini-splits, or alllll the opposite issues that should occur earlier than tile. And with a purpose to have a full plan, I need to finalize the design, then return into the precise execution plan. As a reminder, we aren’t in a rush, and this 1850s home is my private design laboratory (not a home that should perform for a bunch of household wants). I’m not normally so risk-oriented with arduous finishes (which is one thing I need to truly flex and repair in myself).

The jumping-off level of the entire lavatory is dividing up the house (the toilet is 12×16) with these lovely water closets which are paying homage to cute little painted outhouses, with customized classic stained glass doorways on the entrance (after all). See under:

Despite the pushback, we’re nonetheless planning on one with a urinal and one with a bathroom. This is extra to please the boys in my life than anything (I prefer to be in style, okay?). On the wall to the fitting, you’ll have the bath and bathe, like so:

So right this moment, what we have to discuss is what the tile contained in the bathe shall be. Since now we have these assertion stained glass doorways, in a wood-clad room with these cute little navy blue homes, how far can we take the design of the tile??? At first, I used to be going to handmake all of them. I reached out to Pigeon Toe Ceramics, and he or she was going to educate me by means of it at her studio. But after strolling me by means of the extremely laborious course of, I noticed that if we had been going to make our personal tile, we wanted to design one thing that doesn’t exist. Just making a rectangle or sq. tile in a coloration that Fireclay sells felt like a missed alternative to do one thing extra enjoyable.

So right here is the place we’re at proper now. The bathe shall be an enclosed house (42×48) with the plumbing on the aspect for the reason that ceiling within the again slants down and can be too low. I’m actively obsessive about this tub, so what’s in query is the tile contained in the bathe. Now, I might hold it easy (and who is aware of, I nonetheless would possibly), however I wished to run just a few concepts previous you first.

The downside is that I can’t unsee these vintage Kensington tiles that I purchased from Aurora Mills. They had been simply purchased for inspiration ($40 every tile, lol), however I would like them so dangerous. So…

Option 1: Reproducing Antique Relief Tiles

Ok, right here’s what I’d do: work with Pratt + Larson (they occur to be in Portland) to create the mildew and the right glaze to breed them. I’m undecided if it might simply be an accent line dividing up two totally different discipline tiles or if we’d create allll of the tiles. Study the above board (that we made actually simply by means of the Spoak program) and see what you suppose. Now bear in mind, these are design instructions, not literal but. I really like the thought of a 3D texture in a Victorian motif that I truly suppose works actually fantastically with the extra linear stained glass doorways.

Also, Gretchen jogged my memory that now we have this aid motif already in the home in our upstairs classic fire (which I really like and can hold as a sculpture if nothing else). Most craftsman tile aid patterns (what Pratt + Larson does so properly) are extra handpainted totally different colours (suppose lilies and bears), however I might need one thing extra delicate in the identical coloration, however have the glazing pool and be uneven (like within the inspiration).

Option 2: Painted Tile Mural

I’ve been so in awe of the Jessica Helgerson-designed mural kitchen backsplash for years. The work, care, expertise, and hours that went into executing which are uncountable (properly, I hope Jessica’s staff counted it, lol). I believe you must take the bisque tile and draw the entire thing, over all of the tiles, then paint the bottom coat, fireplace, paint the mural, fireplace, glaze (I don’t know the jargon or course of). The level is, it’s not such as you set up the tile after which paint over it. It’s an enormous course of. But I’m open to exploring this for me, however in my very own model. Maybe it’s a Scandinavian folks artwork motif? Maybe it’s one thing extra Victorian and Deco? Maybe it’s one thing extra natural and handmade? Point is, I really like this concept, and I’m joyful to roll with it.

Option 3: A Unique Pattern With Colorful Readymade Tiles

Part of me at all times loves taking a readymade tile (or tiles) and doing one thing inventive with it. Now this is able to solely actually work if I labored with one firm that bought many colours in lots of configurations and dimensions, i.e., you’ll be able to’t actually simply purchase from random sources and attempt to cobble them collectively. Their thicknesses and edges could be off (I’m positive it’s doable). But corporations like Fireclay, Pratt + Larseon, and Tempest Tile might do one thing like this. I might do much less of a symmetrical sample, as a substitute one thing that feels random. Of course, the problem is to be sure that it doesn’t compete with the stained glass doorways and as a substitute enhances them. So this concept is definitely the trickiest for me to execute, although it solely requires me to buy and curate, not truly customizing something.

I’ve a favourite for positive. But I’d like to see what you’d like to see me pursue.

I’m having fun with the hell out of this course of. We used the Spoak moodboarding tool this time (we’ve been utilizing it for all our elevations and flooring plans as properly; the AI powered enhancing choices are unimaginable). Which one is your favourite!!!????

*Photos by Kaitlin Green