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...
Tiles shown here:
Wild Thing Daktari luxury design tile from Steuler Fliesen - Animal Print via Trendir
Animal Patterns Ceramic Tile by Settecento - Animal Tiles (Animalier) via Trendir
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Comments (19)
I wish there was a way to reply hot to the ones that are more impressionistic, but not to the other ones.
The giraffe tiles are graphic and cool. The other ones... not so much with the "hot".
Dear God.
I like the giraffe ones.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cruella DeVille and Norma Desmond would love these bathrooms...
sorry, not... :\
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.
I just threw up a little on my desk.
.not.
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.
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.
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.
Animal prints on people is a no. Animal prints on tiles? Definitely not.
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?
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.