The mixture is, however, susceptible to damage from a lot of external influences, including water. If water pools on the floor of your bathroom and then comes in contact with the drywall, it can extremely damage not only the visual finish of the wall but the structural integrity as well.
Drywall can withstand small surface amounts of water but is not meant to uphold against extended exposure to moisture.
A baseboard serves as a guard for the drywall. It sits at the corner of the floor and the wall and provides a durable barrier against pooling moisture. Baseboards are also much easier and cheaper to replace than drywall, so even if the baseboards get damaged, you can refinish the buffer piece rather than repair the actual wall.
The moisture quickly seeps further and can damage the wall for multiple feet upwards. A wall should be built at a perfect degree angle. However, mistakes do happen. Even if you think your walls are sitting at a flawless corner, they might be set at an obtuse or acute angle if you were to measure them. Having a baseboard to buffer the edge between the floor and the wall will help to disguise the awkward angle that might occur between the two surfaces. A direct floor-to-wall connection with an inaccurate angle would be quite easy to spot, but the baseboard acts as a sort of margin line, an area that allows room for error.
Baseboards act as a sort of bumper for your walls. They protect the drywall from the contact of vacuums, mops, dropped items, kicked toys, and floor-spilled stains. Repeated cleaning of your bathroom floors will likely see an accumulative knocking of the broom or vacuum against the walls. Baseboards can protect your walls from these dents and the stains of any used cleaners or spilled products. A gap between your bathroom floor and wall creates a place for dirt and debris to hide out.
Accumulation of these two things can create warping, discoloration, and other expensive damage to the room. Do you think they get wiped off every week? No matter what kind of paint you use, there always seems to be dust getting stuck to the wood baseboard. That dust is stuck on! Wiping off these bad boys means using a damp rag and being on your knees.
I mentioned above that this topic came up in a designer group that I belong to. This was such a fun conversation to watch. Image source. In the end, I always review with my clients the pros and cons of each option. I like to educate them with the knowledge and let them decide.
It really is a personal choice and I believe both can look nice. Who do you think cleans the baseboards? Who do you think even notices the baseboards? While I knew I was going to go with tile baseboards, one thing you may not know is that you need to let your tile setter know how high the baseboards should be. The transition between our hall and the main bathroom.
The blue floating shelves are not installed yet! I know, I know…. For me and my home, the decision was all based on function. I was not going to be wiping any more dust off the wood baseboards. I would love to hear and see what you have done with baseboards in your bathrooms! Awesome work and way to stay on top of it. The tile baseboards are really pretty. Looking forward to what else you do in this space!
Thanks Kristie. I was a bit nervous to see how the pattern would look for the tile baseboard in my main bathroom, cleaning and daily living certainly trumped the decision!
Love that floor tile for this space! I love that tile choice. My tile installer is a huge fan of schlueter, while I can go either way but prefer to avoid it if possible. I have seen some very cool installs with it used as part of the design instead of trying to hide it.
I also do about a foot of the wall under the baseboard from the tub or shower pan. The front side is then primed with a good oil based primer followed by an exterior paint. Don't forget to glue any miter joints. Water always pools there. As a retired interior designer who worked in the tile and marble industry for 9 years I favour tile, marble or onyx base board, which ever best. Yes a wet area deserves this no care finish. If the bisket back of tile colour is similar to your glazed front then the raw edge does not matter.
It can also be painted to match. There are special bull nose tiles for this use also but may be limited in size colour etc. Or run a ceramic bull nose accent strip across the top of your tile. I think tile baseboard looks a bit commercial at times and if the space is small like some bathrooms are, it makes the footprint of the bathroom seem more closed in.
Using a accent brown marble for my bathrooms base. The floor will be a polished solid beige color. Could we poly the top lip of the base and use clear caulk to the wall? Hi , should not be a problem finding porcelain base boards in calacatta look , where are you based? Would it look ok to use tile baseboards throughout the house over a wood floor?
And is it costly? I wish I put a metal trim on mine like Anita Nazar did. Your baseboards are beautiful. You used silicone to fill the movement space between the floor and baseboard. Have you had any issues with keeping the bathroom floors clean at the silicone joint? We are looking into Schluter AHK cove trim between the tile floor and tile baseboard for ease of cleaning, but the cost for trimming a large bathroom with lots of turns, the trim plus inner and outer corners are really adding up.
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I am renovating 2 bathrooms in my home and have chosen an 18x18 polished porcelain tile for the floors installing on a diagonal. I am not tiling the walls. So here is my dilemma: do I use wood baseboards painted out white, or cut the tile and make the baseboard out of them?
Email Save Comment Featured Answer. Anita Nazar Original Author. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. As I did not hear back from anyone thank you Jo Elder for resuscitating this thread! I went ahead and used the porcelain tile for easy cleaning. I also chose it for durability since we have a steam shower and will have a lot of moisture in the bathroom. Here are some pics, we are very happy we chose the tile, it looks beautiful!
Like 22 Save. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Oh, and this would be the style of baseboard I would use if I choose wood, so to tie in with the rest of my home. Like 4 Save. Jo Elder 7 years ago. I would love to hear the answer for this question too please.
Like 2 Save. Related Discussions Wood baseboard butting up to tile wall Q. It bothers me that it doesn't meet the edge, so I see what you're saying.
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