I am currently looking at tiling options for my new kitchen and a recent trip to a bathroom store found me gazing longingly at this tile:
It is a large-format, porcelain tile which is almost exactly the colour and finish I want. It is close to perfection... but I still have others to look at.
Anyway, my initial thought was to run those in portrait, from the worktops to the ceiling. This is a render of what things should look like, layout-wise:
I was wondering if laying the tiles horizontally, in a stretcher-bond design, would work. Like massive bricks. Thought was to try and bring some of the detail from the exposed brickwork in the dining room into the kitchen...
Technically, will it work? My brain tells me it's now harder to lay as there are multiple edges which need to be level, but surely that's not out of the realms of possibility for a quality fitter... right?
It is a large-format, porcelain tile which is almost exactly the colour and finish I want. It is close to perfection... but I still have others to look at.
Anyway, my initial thought was to run those in portrait, from the worktops to the ceiling. This is a render of what things should look like, layout-wise:
I was wondering if laying the tiles horizontally, in a stretcher-bond design, would work. Like massive bricks. Thought was to try and bring some of the detail from the exposed brickwork in the dining room into the kitchen...
Technically, will it work? My brain tells me it's now harder to lay as there are multiple edges which need to be level, but surely that's not out of the realms of possibility for a quality fitter... right?
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