Why Choose a White Bathroom?

White is a timeless colour that never goes out of style. It offers a versatile, classic base for all interior aesthetics.

1. Makes Small Spaces Feel Bigger

For small bathrooms, white is a particularly popular option due to their ability to brighten a space and make it feel bigger than it is. White tiles also reflect light around the room, further enhancing the space’s brightness and creating an open and airy feel. White tiles are particularly effective and popular in smaller UK homes for their ability to make them feel larger and brighter.

2. Reflects Light

White tiles bounce light around the space, both natural and artificial. This is particularly ideal for darker bathrooms with minimal natural light, a lighter tile scheme makes the space feel inviting and open.

3. Works with Any Design Style

White pairs with any design style or aesthetic from sleek, modern spaces to traditional and classic interiors. Paired with bold colours to classic blacks, to calming neutrals, white can be mixed and matched with any colour accessories and therefore changed over time. White bathrooms are a great option for longevity, with white tiles being both stylish and practical, offering designs that will last years to come.

Best Colour Combinations with White

An all-white bathroom is effortlessly elegant, but a colour pairing can help add some depth and elevation to this look. These combinations can offer contrast or cohesion.

Black and White Bathrooms

For a contrasting yet classic look, a monochrome pairing provides a striking and nostalgic design for a bathroom. Black fixtures, like shower screens, taps, accessories and mirrors stand out against white tiles but introduce subtle black accents without overwhelming the space. Patterned black and white designs, stripes, checkerboard layout or black grout lines are all ways of incorporating black into your white bathroom.

Consider adding black and white tiles as a feature wall for a focal point in your bathroom. Alternatively, for floor tiles, a black and white combination works particularly well in small bathrooms to create depth. Additionally, black and white floor tiles can be used to define different sections in small bathrooms, for example, separating the shower area.

White and Wood Tones

Pairing white with wood tones creates a calm, Japandi-inspired feel to your bathroom. Ideal for creating the Japanese-Scandinavian inspired interiors, where warmth and tranquillity are key.

Wood effect finishes through basin units, bathroom furniture, shelves or flooring helps inject some warmth to balance out the white’s starkness. Light oak continues the bright and airy feel the white embodies, whilst darker woods add depth and contrast. Wood and white pairings create a spa-like aesthetic that doesn’t go out of style. Wood effect floor tiles are a durable way to achieve the look without compromising on porosity and longevity.

Tile Purchasing Manager, Mark Cooper says ‘Wood effect tiles are great at adding warmth and a sense of nostalgia to a space, but without any of the risks of damage and snapping that comes with natural wood. For a white bathroom, wood effect tiles complement and take away that clinical feel.’

White and White

An all-white bathroom can offer simplicity but also statement. Mixing different tile sizes and shapes can add texture and depth to your white bathroom, whilst still keeping a clean and minimalistic feel.

Mix matt and glossy finishes to play with light reflections or pair large format white floor tiles with small format white wall tiles, to create a tonal and texture difference with grout lines. Large format white floor and wall tiles reduce grout lines and therefore create a seamless, spa-like effect.

All white bathrooms are a great way of adding depth through texture instead of colour. To prevent a white bathroom from feeling flat, layering different finishes and textures is key. Fluted tiles, matt and gloss combinations, small format artisan tiles, marble veining or contrasting grout are ways to add dimension.

White and Grey

For a contemporary look, consider pairing white with grey. Grey adds depth to the starkness of white, whilst keeping a cooler toned palette.

Light grey creates a soft and subtle contrast whilst maintaining the bright and minimalistic feel, whilst darker greys add drama and depth. Pair grey floor tiles with white wall tiles or consider creating an all-white bathroom with a grey feature wall to add a break in the white.

This combination is ideal for contemporary homes and those who love the industrial, cement-style bathrooms, where it’s all clean lines and minimalism.