Top Bathroom Tiling Design

GOLD LEAF

"I have always loved those glass gold-leaf tiles ... they are really so Liberace!" States Bailey McCarthy of Ann Sacks's Davlin collection. Calacatta Gold marble and an antique chandelier create the renovated master bathroom a real showstopper.

MODERN BOHEMIAN

"I like to blur boundaries," says designer Karen Vidal. The tile she chose with this 1970s beach house bathroom is similar to that of a cement floor in Spain, but the layout relies on a block printing from India.

HONEYCOMB

Glass doors place a shower on full display, therefore Matthew Quinn played up the opinion with Origami Kiki marble flooring out of AKDO. The irregular pattern and hexagonal shapes "are dynamic, but the neutral palette makes certain it isn't too loud visually," he says. He kept the remainder of the shower discreet using AKDO Soft Gray marble tiles.

CIRCULAR PATTERN

The curved motif of Ann Sacks's Beau Monde Glass Mosaics tile in this San Francisco master bath echos the curved stool and Roman colour.

DRAMATIC OPAL

At a new york bathroom designed by Sandra Nunnerley, mist mosaic tile by Studium has a watery, pearlescent shine.

VINTAGE GLAMOUR

In an art-deco toilet, mother-of-pearl liner frames the Arpell Bianco tile from Artistic Tile.

Frameless Shower Door

WHIMSICAL COMBO

Graphic Escher tiles by Amethyst Artisan and zebra wallpaper lift a children' bath in an apartment decorated by Miles Redd.

MOSAIC "RUG"

"The first thing we shopped for was that tub," states Chicago-based designer Julia Buckingham. "It is the crown jewel." A "rug" made from tile accounts the focal point, "and you'll never need to dry-clean it."

HEXAGONAL PATTERN

"I wanted play!" Says designer SuzAnn Kletzien of this bath. The impact starts with a lively hexagonal-tile "rug" by Artistic Tile. In Nero Marquina, Pacific White and Thassos marbles, it's a luxe edition of conventional penny-tile.

BLUE OMBRE

The master bath walls in a Manhattan penthouse are tiled in Bisazza's Mughetto, and the flooring in Ann Sacks's Savoy.