"Biggles" wrote in message
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My brother & sister-in-law are keen on the small kitchen tiles which are
fashionable at the moment and would like to tile the whole kitchen, but
not all with small tiles. Advice he has been given is to not mix small and
larger tiles in the same room, but I suspect that's because it makes life
more difficult for the tiler. Has anyone had experience of mixing large
and small tiles (e.g. small ones between work tops and wall cupboards,
larger elsewhere), how difficult was it to design, any tips, and what was
the result like (picture if possible please!!).

The main problem is getting the joints to look right where they join. I
avoided it by using a contrasting colour of mosaic sized tiles (the stuff
that comes on canvas backing) in a strip about 150mm wide between two
different sized tiles. Done carefully, it looks like a design feature,
rather than a bodge to overcome a problem.

Colin Bignell