This post is in collaboration with Wayfair.
Now that our Spanish Sanctuary renovation is in motion, it’s time to start thinking about some of the big decisions—specifically, flooring and wall coverings. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been focusing on one of the most important (and exciting) design features: tile!
Wayfair has one of the largest selections of tiles anywhere online, and they offer samples as low as $1 plus free shipping on almost all tile. They’re one of my most used resources to browse for products, order samples, check reviews and price match.
I went ahead and stocked up on a variety of tile samples I’m considering for different spaces so I could see how they all flow together. Check out my top finds below, and weigh in on your favorites!
Patterned Tile
When it comes to patterned tile, there can be a fine line between timeless and trendy. When in doubt, I lean towards styles with a hand painted feel, classic pattern and neutral/earthy color palette. Bold contrasting colors and popular patterns that you see everywhere will have a higher chance at looking dated in several years.
Tile plays a leading role in modern Spanish style design, and I’ll be choosing a variety of patterned tile for the bathrooms, kitchen and stair risers. I love the traditional look of these tiles for a bathroom floor, and I’m 99% sure I’m going with the Mirambel for our jack and jill bathroom (keep scrolling for links):
These are the current top contenders for the kitchen backsplash. I want to incorporate blue in the tile, and am equally torn between all of them!
Here are links to all the patterned tiles I’m loving right now:
Floor tile
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get authentic, rustic cobblestone floors in the primary bathroom and I may have unlocked the perfect hack—porcelain look-a-like tile!
Wayfair carries these ‘stone-look’ tiles in a variety of colors, that can be laid with extra wide grout lines to resemble cobblestone (and they’ll match our wood floor height, and no upkeep!) I ordered multiple samples to get a better visual. Definitely drawn to the gray, though I may use the terra-cotta somewhere else.
Another idea is to cut brick-shaped tile into squares, though the sharper edges wouldn’t quite have the same rustic old-world feel. You could also use travertine for a lighter stone (Drew from Lone Fox did this in his kitchen and it’s stunning!)
Here are the best options I found to achieve this look:
Shower tile
Two of the bathroom showers in the Spanish Sanctuary will have wall tile, and I have a general idea of the desired look. Here’s the mood board for the jack and jill bathroom:
I love the pairing of the warm brown patterned floor tile with an earthy green shower wall tile, but there are many different shades, shapes and sizes to choose from. I ordered a variety samples to compare in person and the lighter ones are too blue for me—do you have a favorite?
For the primary bathroom shower, I spotted this tile on Wayfair and it was love at first sight. It’s available in several colorways, and I ordered samples of my top 3 contenders. Tough choice!
Here are links to all of the shower tiles I’m considering right now:
Did you know you could order tile samples on Wayfair? I think it’s so important to see them in person first before committing to such a big purchase. It also really helps you visualize the end result when you can see everything laid out side by side in person.
The bathrooms in this house will be longer and slower renovations (per usual), but in the meantime I’ve got some exciting plans for our first bedroom makeover. More to come soon!
Sabina says
I loved the Hacienda Hideaway interiors but the bathrooms were definitely missing some colourful tiles – excited to see them here and looking forward to seeing the end result! Following your renovations from Poland while building our own small Spanish style house – I might steal some of your ideas!
Kayla says
I love every single one of the green tiles, especially love the white border Tetuan Astre tiles!! And I think I like the more terracotta earthy hues vs the greys, although I do like both (just wondering if the grey could lean towards “dirty”?) You got this!!
Mandy Allen says
This is exciting! For me, for the kitchen backsplash, it’s definitely the small tiles at the bottom. I’ve seen similar in old French houses – yes they looked dated, but that’s because they were in awful dated kitchens. With your flair, they would look beautiful!
Flooring, I always go for terracotta rather than grey, but that’s me. 😄
For your bathroom shower tile, the top green tile in the picture with the too blue for you tiles.
Primary shower, either middle or bottom tiles. Hope they are easy to clean if you have hard water though, as they won’t squeegee easily. I can’t remember if you will be renting this house or selling it.
Have fun deciding!
Michele M. says
WOW on so many levels. I love your choices! To be horribly honest though, I loooove the green shower tile for the Ja nd J shower but I don’t love the honey colored floor. It somehow looks to me a bit dingy. However you always put things together so perfectly I will trust your decisions on it all because you always do the greatest designs. I don’t envy picking from all those choices.
Oh and to be honest that pick with all the different tiles on the levels of stair fronts to me is dizzying.
I’d say if the tiling there is going to happen, pick an easy to look at simple design and stay consistent. But not a huge fan of that at all – but on floors, backsplashes, absolutely. Hope this isn’t too harsh. You know best.
Are you for hire? ♥
Sojourner says
Beautiful choices as always. You might want to think carefully before going with wide grout lines, especially in a space that will need frequent cleaning. I inherited wide grout lines in my kitchen floor, and even though the grout is brown (“dirt”) colored,
they are a nightmare to keep clean.
Karen says
Gee! Quite the dilemma.I have a strong opinion on the primary shower.the gray and terra cotta. Love the combo of those two.