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The market offers a very wide range of ceramic tiles at varied prices. The question of price is very relevant, since the cost of a good tile leaves much to be desired, and you don't want the hackneyed options buy, because you do for yourself and want to feel comfortable in your home, and in the bathroom we spend a considerable part of our life :-)))
Before buying a tile, my wife and I spent a lot of time on the Internet, going through a bunch of options.
Many of the options found do not imply laying tiles along the entire plane of the walls, but only a working area, i.e. only the one that is most often in direct contact with water.
Then I thought, why do we tile the walls from floor to ceiling? For what? So it turns out that we overpay almost twice as much. After all, tiles are needed only for a working height that does not exceed one and a half meters! And with the condensation formed during the bathing process, ventilation and good paint on the walls do a great job. So we decided to try to do the same, lifting the tile only to a height of one and a half meters.
And it looks much nicer than full-height tiles:
The junction of the tile to the wall is clogged with grout or putty:
The second thing we did was leave one brick wall in the interior of the bathroom. It looks beautiful and modern in style, and a lot of money has been saved. To make this wall fit into the interior, we chose porcelain stoneware on the floor with color shades that echo the brick:
The brick is treated with water-repellent impregnation and becomes practical to use, is not afraid of water and can be easily washed.
The remaining section of the wall is above the 1.5 m mark - putty, fiberglass is glued, putty again and primed with aquastop, which I did on my own. It remains to choose a washable paint and the corresponding color shade.
The same is done with the window slopes - no tiles. Fiberglass is everywhere.
Thus, instead of 27 sq.m. we purchased only 13 sq.m. tiles, saving half both on materials and on the work of the tiler.
That's all, I hope that the article was useful to you. Thanks for attention!
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