Show me your bathroom tile pictures!

[Jen R.]

We are remodeling a rental property in a suburb of Akron Ohio and installing a new tub with tile surround. We obviously need to keep it economical, but I would like to do something creative, and I'm bored with our past designs (generally they consist of a larger field tile with horizontal accent stripe). I would like to keep using a cheap, larger format tile (so that we minimize grout lines) with dark colored grout, but need some fresh ideas to modernize it a bit. What creative, but affordable, designs have you come up with? I've included some pics of what we have done in the past.

Please share some remodeled bathroom tile pics - I need inspiration!

[Crystal Em]

Never tried it myself, but I like the idea of doing tile above a one-piece shower/tub surround in a rental.

It gives you the option of going with a higher end/more expensive tile since you're using less than if you tile the whole surround, and it seems to be a "tenant proof" option since it's less likely to get dirty or damaged.

Some examples: