Travertine bathroom floors are stylish and durable, as long as they are properly sealed. You can combine various sized tiles and darker accent bands for the walls, and around the tub. You can use various types of travertine, including the unique Castello travertine type of tiles, which come from quarries in Italy. This material has been used in many formats, creating spaces that are unique and timeless.
The decor of a travertine tiled bathroom has a comfortable, warm feel, and this is only enhanced with the natural lightness, and the neutral tones of travertine on the walls and floors. Travertine tiles lend an air of elegance, while still keeping to the design theme that you started with. Your shower stall exterior can feature a detailed pattern of travertine, and inside the shower, you can combine square tiles inset with hexagon tiles.
Go a step beyond what some other designers have done, and use travertine in a variety of formats and applications. You can step beyond the use of traditional rectangular and square tiles to include tiles placed into hexagon shapes. These shapes create a warm and unique field of soft colors, including taupe, and with a brushed finish, they will add to the Old World charm in your room. The floor's perimeter can feature a rectangle of travertine tiles, some of which may need to be cut, to accommodate the shower and tub.
Your field of hexagon travertine bathroom tiles can use wide grout joints that will help to continue your overall theme. You can contrast these with travertine border tiles and use mosaic pieces in a strip between sections. This also shows off a contrast to the floor pattern. Varying sizes of travertine and dark accent bands can cover your vertical surfaces. Around the vanity, your design may use larger format brushed travertine tiles, and hexagon tiles will form your backsplash. Be sure to seal the tiles well, especially on the backsplash.
The exterior of your shower can feature a pattern that is similar, with extra 8x8 tiles at the bottom of the design. Inside the shower, your design can be primarily composed of 8x8 travertine tiles in a softer color, inset with a selection of 6x6 hexagon-shaped tiles, which you can creatively frame with a small black granite band.
When travertine tile is processed, it is pulled from quarries in large blocks, that are cut into what you will know as travertine tiles. They may be cross-cut, showing the grain of the stone, or vein-cut, in which the stone is cut into layers which make more mottles and tiger-stripe effects.
After travertine has been cut from the quarry, it is selected for the variances in its coloring, and may be honed, where the tile's surface is sanded, giving you a matte finish. Alternately, it may be tumbled, with bearings and gravel, to give it an aged, rough-hewn look. Travertine might also be brushed, where a wire brush gives the surface a worn look, or filled, where the holes are filled in with epoxy. Then it more resembles the travertine bathroom tiles you know.
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