When you say that the ceiling is timber, what colour is it? I saw that tile at Beaumont the other day and loved it, but it doesn't match my current house style, I also would be brave enough to do a tile such as that in a bathroom. If you already have this same tile elsewhere in the house, then I would definitely bring it into the bathroom, somewhere. Either as a feature wall or perhaps as a niche in the shower wall that goes along the entire length of that wall. If the room is already dark, then maybe the long niche in shower is the safest way to go with the rest of the wall being white.. It would be interesting to see what a tiler would say about how easy it would be to tile over a niche only if that tile dated the place at some later stage. However, I wouldn't think so for a cabin. It sounds like you already have enough timber going on in the house, so don't use a fake timber tile. If you really want to bring in more timber somewhere, you would even just do a couple of timber robe hooks. I am not sure what would suit a cabin, but there are some round ones that you can get in timber. Yes, definitely stick with a pale grey floor tile or even a greige. By using the coloured tile, there will be lots of shades of grey that could be used for the floor.

Thanks Audrey. Good point re introducing more timber. I didn't think about the fact it may clash with the timber ceiling which is an orangey tone (baltic pine, not the best timber in terms of colour when it ages). Great idea re long niche, however, it's quite possible I cannot do any recess ... How about running it solely down the wall behind the shower mixer?

Hi Kate Yes, you can still get that tile. I'm not up with colours but it looks like antique white is very close/similar to Cargo white which is what my interior walls are in rest of house. I guess the only why to use the timber tile would be to paint the ceiling but then there'd still be two different tones of timber in rest of house ...

So thanks to you and Audrey I've decided against the timber. Now, it's a matter of deciding how much of the feature tile I use and where:

1. wall behind shower mixer

2. behind taps on vanity (not my preference)

3. entirety of one bathroom wall, that being the one the shower will run along

Consider a pine vanity.

If u go a patterned tile, a wall that is not cluttered with other things and is visible from door to draw you in. Can you post a floor plan?

Hi Kate. Sorry about the rough plan but it's all I've got. Door is in between the vanity and shower. I was thinking of putting the feature wall along the wall of shower but open to changing it so it is on the wall directly across from the door. However, that wall will only be tiled halfway up as on one side there are two windows and the other some shelving.

Is the wall enclosing the shower a glass screen? It should be to keep room open, then do the wall opp vanity, it will be visible from vanity mirror.
I have two side by side windows in my new bathroom only 20cm apart as a wall used to separate them. I connected the two window sills and stopped white tiles at sill. Consider something similar on your external wall with shelves and sill to give a finish line.

Yes it's a glass panel. Thanks for that. Sorry, don't quite understand what you mean re connecting the two window sills ... Are you meaning ensure there is a sill running the whole wall for continuity? I'm actually thinking now that I'll ask the builder about gyprocking up the shelves and having tiles running all the way up that half of the wall next to toilet. What do you think?

Can u post photos

Hi Kate Not at the moment as I'm not there but I'm not sure they'll be of help given the whole room is going to be dismantled and re walled and floored. Builder has confirmed today that the wall with shelves can be walled up so that's good news.

So I have decided against doing a feature wall on wall running alongside shower as it will make the room too dark. Instead the feature tiles will be on the wall behind the shower mixer. I am now in a quandry re the vanity wall. The floor will be light grey concrete style tiles, walls satin white and the ceiling is a raked ceiling made from baltic pine which over time has gone orangey tone. Do I get a plane white vanity, charred oak timber look (grey), another timber tone?

I have decided on 1200 mm wall hung vanity but need help on colour and whether or not I put a mirrored cabinet on wall above vanity also. I originally had decided against any cabinetry above the vanity.

Is there a pale grey in the feature tile you could pick up for the vanity. It would be softer than a satin white. Definitely a mirror cabinet.

Yes there's certainly some grey in the feature tile . See above pic of tile :-) Re mirrored cabinet, I'm unsure whether I just do a mirror or a mirrored cabinet ....

A cabinet definitely . Can not beat storage at eye level.

I got the biggest I could fit

In site aligned with top of window

Kate, why avoid gloss?

Hi kat kat, the fireplace feature tile looks Matt, and I thought gloss tiles would compete to be the star. Also need nonslip on a bathroom floor. But put them together, in a reasonable quantity and make your own call. What is your gut saying?