
It's bathroom and kitchen month on AT and with this cold, snowy DC weather, we're thinking about heating up our home decor. The bathroom is a great place to go bold - or even wild - with your decorating. How do feel about animal-print tiles in the bathroom? Shown here is the "Wild Thing Colonial Print" tile by Steuler. Would you use them in your bathroom? Survey and more photos of animal-print designs below the jump...










I wish there was a way to reply hot to the ones that are more impressionistic, but not to the other ones.
view Greige's profile
The giraffe tiles are graphic and cool. The other ones... not so much with the "hot".
view kellylc's profile
Dear God.
view Marie-Eve's profile
I like the giraffe ones.
view LaurieLu's profile
Tile is too permanent to go completely wacky. In six months, you'll be over the animal print phase, and probably grow to hate them, but won't be able to to justify the expense of changing out the tile. Go bold with less-permanent design elements in the bathroom: shower curtains, towels, bath mat, or even fixtures like towel racks. That way, when you are sick of the safari look, you can get rid of it quickly.
view HandyC's profile
Let's just say that a *very* little goes a LONG way! The only one that works for me is the second image with the two lamps.
view dabble's profile
There's an episode of I Love Lucy where she gets the idea to wallpaper her bedroom itself, and the result was something like the diagonal tiger / zebra stripes.
view btoddster's profile
I think they're great if that's your style. And for some people it definitely is. As long as it's installed well I don't see anything really offensive about that kind of thing.
view bigwavejen's profile
Cruella DeVille and Norma Desmond would love these bathrooms...
view bepsf's profile
sorry, not... :\
view luxeandjacs's profile
No no no no no!!!!! Those are awful! That Tiger shower is the worst of the bunch. It looks like something you'd find in a cheap Vegas motel. Yuck.
view ShopgirlCA's profile
I just threw up a little on my desk.
view shminta's profile
.not.
view miss.lyndsey's profile
These look woefully out of place in the homes of mere mortals, but someone like Roberto Cavalli or Keith Richards could totally pull some of these off.
view Seaside's profile
I once had a job where I stripped leopard-print wallpaper off the walls and ceiling(!) of a bathroom. I learned some things.
Eventually everyone grows tired of animal print.
A little animal print goes a long way. No need to put it on the ceiling.
Wallpaper hides water problems or mold growth. Yuck.
view HillE's profile
Maybe I've been looking at this site too long. These remind me of old Bloomingdale's catalogs. There was an era when Bloomingdale couldn't seem to send out a catalog unless there was a za-za-zoom animal print dress or blouse or tunic or something. It got to be a game -- spot the animal print in the catalog. Ick. Ick. Ick.
view AustinSarah2's profile
Animal prints on people is a no. Animal prints on tiles? Definitely not.
view simplehearted's profile
i love a good animal print, sometimes. but it just looks too cheesy. maybe, if it were in a brighter, not so typical color. blue, maybe?
view treelovr's profile
This will be one of those styles where we say, "What were we thinking back then". I agree that a little goes a long way; a whole wall is just too much.
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