What bathroom renos done today will stand the style test of time? How about mine?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys like plain patterned subway tile for a shower or where it is softened up/more decorative with patterns and borders and bullnose etc?

What exactly do you mean by patterned subway tile? Something like this?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait a second everyone. Doesn't the answer depend on what type the house you have? For example, I wouldn't put a marble bathroom in a contemporary house.

I think it's possible to use marble in a more contemporary way although the room's other elements (e.g. the sinks in the pic below) will have a strong impact on how timeless the look is. I would argue that even the marble bathroom above is less than timeless due to the cabinetry, which looks more early 2000s than 2014.

The other marble bathroom was just awful...I agree that it looks like a Donald Trump creation or a bathroom of a Saudi Prince. The two pps hit the nail on the head.

But this is beautiful, tasteful, understated and well done. And I hate contemporary.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys like plain patterned subway tile for a shower or where it is softened up/more decorative with patterns and borders and bullnose etc?

What exactly do you mean by patterned subway tile? Something like this?

Yikes!

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Anonymous wrote:Do you guys like plain patterned subway tile for a shower or where it is softened up/more decorative with patterns and borders and bullnose etc?

What exactly do you mean by patterned subway tile? Something like this?

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Decorative, like on the page.

http://brynalexandra.blogspot.com/2011/11/day-dreaming.html

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ You all need to STOP. You're fighting over a fictitious bathroom, good grief.

+1000.

Just bought a home with brown blob travertine bathrooms. Don't like them but it just means I'll renovate in the next couple of years. It's just a bathroom people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys like plain patterned subway tile for a shower or where it is softened up/more decorative with patterns and borders and bullnose etc?

What exactly do you mean by patterned subway tile? Something like this?

the moment when memes jumped the shark...

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Anonymous wrote:Decorative, like on the page.

http://brynalexandra.blogspot.com/2011/11/day-dreaming.html

The pics on that page don't work for me.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^^ You all need to STOP. You're fighting over a fictitious bathroom, good grief.

+1000.

Just bought a home with brown blob travertine bathrooms. Don't like them but it just means I'll renovate in the next couple of years. It's just a bathroom people.

I actually thought the discussion was pretty tame for DCUM...

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Just came across this subway/marble combo, which may be one of my favorite bathrooms of all time:

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Oh - I love most everything about that one. Personally I'd probably skip the marble subway tile though - too much.

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I had no idea that people were so persnickety about bathrooms - and that my taste is so different than a lot of people's on this board.

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Anonymous wrote:Just came across this subway/marble combo, which may be one of my favorite bathrooms of all time:

That grey wall tile is very prison like

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Anonymous wrote:Just came across this subway/marble combo, which may be one of my favorite bathrooms of all time:

That's gorgeous!

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Anonymous wrote:Just came across this subway/marble combo, which may be one of my favorite bathrooms of all time:

That grey wall tile is very prison like

Subway tile with contrasting grout has a very tailored, almost masculine kind of look. I think that's one of the reasons it works well in the bathroom above. It's offset nicely by the soft gray swirls in the marble, the glass knobs, and other, more feminine aspects of the room. The result is more balanced and not as frou-frou looking as the Saudi prince bathroom posted earlier.