Hexagon floor tile in master bath

bathroom hex tile pattern

Here is my rough, penciled-in/whited-out sketch for the floor tile pattern in our master bath.  Tile will be laid tomorrow over the radiant heat floor.  That little rectangle on the left is the stand-alone shower with a square drain (that will be in the middle).    I know this sketch might be a bit hard to read, but I love to geek out on geometric patterns, so I couldn’t resist posting.

Months ago, we chose matte black and white hex tile with dark grey grout for the floors.  The walls will have matte white subway tile with a black pencil tile line under a bullnosed subway tile at chair rail height, Well, here’s the elevation…see for yourself.

Master bathroom elevations

There were a lot of budget compromises in this bathroom:  The first thing to go from our design was the custom, frameless shower door + window, and then the door that was meant to close off the linen closet was tossed.  Now it is open shelving.  In fact, we even had to forgo medicine cabinets in this bathroom.  We’ll be putting in a large, frameless, beveled mirror instead of  custom, inset medicine cabinets.  And  we’ll get a $20 glass shelf from Ikea to hang under the mirror.  We probably won’t really miss these design niceties (ok, yeah we will) but they didn’t seem worth going into debt over, so they didn’t make the final cut in our designs.  The radiant heat floors did make the cut.  mmm… toasty tiles.

Speaking of these designs, we hired an architect in the first place because we needed someone to design a staircase for our el-cheapo, down and dirty renovation and to make sure that the house wouldn’t fall down around our ears (it was threatening to).  But before we knew what was happening, we were dreaming big and designing every detail in the apartment as if, well, as if we had the money to spend on niceties like custom, frameless shower doors!  Hah.  A Dwell Studio for Target shower curtain will do nicely, thank you very much.  This is known as project creep.  See also:  clients from hell*

*this happens to be one of my favorite blogs.

DIY tiling note:  Don’t try this at home unless you really know your stuff.  Tile is expensive.  And hex tile mosaics are challenging.  A hex tile mosaic laid properly over a radiant heat subfloor…. priceless.