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Bathroom Tile Design in 5 Easy Steps

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Bathroom Tile Design - Tip #1: Add Medallions or Focal Points
Bathroom Tile Design Picture

Tile Focal Point

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This bathroom tile design illustrates one important property: worthless from a practical standpoint, valuable from an aesthetic standpoint.

This bathroom tile designer did something quite easy here (and easy for any DIY tile installer to do). The designer laid out a floor field of one color and size (12" x 12").

Then, the designer punched out a focal point just in front of the shower. The focal point is constructed of 4" tiles of a darker color, with a border of 4" tiles of an even darker color.

It's a simple bathroom tile design tactic that accomplishes two things:

  1. Breaks up the monotony of the otherwise all-light-color floor field; and
  2. Focuses interest on a key aspect of the bathroom--the shower.

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