A border will emphasize the long/skinny aspect--not necessarily a bad thing...just depends on the look you want. You could also do a design in the middle so the eye would be drawn to that as opposed to the long/skinny (unless you plan on using rugs in that spot).

LOVE penny rounds---shower floor, perhaps?

How would you throw in the aqua accent? It looks like the standard ways are below, given that I want a square mosaic floor.

thanks

This post was edited by mtnrdredux on Mon, Jan 6, 14 at 13:07

Our 1919 bathroom has M1601 but the accent is in burgundy (Restoration Tile's old burgundy). The idiot owners of our house in the 1980s covered it with travertine, whilch I'll be attempting to remove come spring.

Have you considered a greek key border?

How about something like this for turquoise inserts?

1601, since you want one accent color. You could do a narrow 2-tile border and I don't think that would contribute too much to the long narrow appearance, although a border isn't necessary.

If you want to add width to a narrow space, you can do it with diagonal lines. I would do a stack bond rather than running bond and put them all on the diagonal. You can then add the color tiles as a random pattern or as 4 dots together creating a diamond. All of the grout lines will add strong diagonals making it look wider.

It wouldnt be period, but how about rows of aqua creating a striped floor? They could even be different widths and placed randomly. A modern twist using period material? And kind of beachy/cabana-y.

Joanie, I am actually thinking of doing a big aqua stripe on the center of the wall where the shower head and diverter will be.

Annie, I don't really feel the need to make it look any different than it is, but I am mindful of its narrowness. I am using diamonds in the kitchen, BP and PR so I don't want it here.

Ineffable, I think that is the best choice too. Thanks.

Suero, those colors are great, but I dont want to use hex. I have used white hex in 3 of the full bathrooms here, as well as 4 of the full bathrooms in our old house! With white subway! I am really in a rut. This is me, being wild, using squares instead of hex and rectangles...

JMC, I used Greek key around the niche in the MBA in my old house, so I am kind of not into it anymore. What's a few thousand years of civilization ?

This post was edited by mtnrdredux on Mon, Jan 6, 14 at 16:20

I think a 2 square aqua border would be interesting and then a few random aqua tiles like 1603

We might do that Lyban. If you look at the original photo, that is not a very wide room either and the border is elaborate...

The flower design using offset square tile, one with yellow centers. Please ignore the dark blue. This was a quick and very dirty mockup.