Which travertine works on a bathroom floor?
The travertine tiles and mosaics on this page are listed for interior floors. Honed tile is the usual choice for a bathroom floor, with a flat, matte face that shows the color plainly. Tuscany Classic comes honed in 16x16, 18x18 and 12x24, Tuscany Beige in 12x12 and 18x18, and Tuscany Platinum in 18x18, 12x24 and 24x24. Durango Cream comes honed in 12x24 and as a beveled 12x12, Tuscany Ivory comes as a honed 24x24, and Silver travertine comes honed in 12x12 and 18x18. A large honed travertine floor gives a bathroom the quiet, warm look of a Mediterranean villa.
Which floor sizes are available?
For a travertine bathroom floor, sizes here run from small squares to large formats: a 4x4 and a 5 1/2 inch square for detailed floors, 12x12 for a classic grid, 16x16 and 18x18 for a mid size floor, and 12x24 and 24x24 for a large, open bathroom. Tuscany Classic also comes tumbled as a 3x6 subway piece, with softened edges. Larger tiles show more of the stone's natural movement in each piece, and smaller squares give a busier, more traditional pattern.
Travertine for the shower
Three honed and filled travertine pieces here are listed for shower walls and shower floors as well as interior floors: Tuscany Beige in a 5 1/2 inch square, Noce as a hexagon mosaic, and Silver Horizon as a 4x4 square. Honed and filled travertine has its natural holes closed at the factory and a flat, matte face. More shower choices in every material are in shower wall tiles.
What does honed and filled mean?
Honed and filled pieces here include Tuscany Classic and California Sunset in 12x12, Tuscany Beige in a 5 1/2 inch square, Silver Horizon in a 4x4 and the Noce hexagon mosaic. Filling closes the open pores of the stone, so the face reads more even than unfilled honed travertine while keeping the stone's color and banding.
Which colors suit a bathroom?
Beige is the largest group: Tuscany Classic, Tuscany Beige, Tuscany Platinum, Durango Cream and Tuscany Ivory cover the cream to light beige range that most travertine bathrooms use. Tuscany Walnut is a deep brown in a honed 18x18 and a 12x24, and Silver travertine and Silver Vein Cut bring gray and silvery tones. Tuscany Scabas falls in the yellow color group, and California Sunset is a warm red. A walnut or silver travertine floor under a white vanity gives a bathroom more contrast than the classic all beige look.
Mosaics for walls and backsplashes
Small travertine mosaics are listed for backsplashes and interior walls as well as floors. Tuscany Ivory comes as a 3/4 inch honed square mosaic, Tuscany Classic as a slim honed rectangle mosaic, Silver as a 2x4 honed brick, and the Travertine Blend pebble sheet mixes tumbled stones in brown tones. A small mosaic behind a vanity echoes a travertine floor in a finer scale.
Which wall tile goes with travertine?
The beige travertines here, such as Tuscany Classic and Durango Cream, have warm cream and tan tones, and Silver travertine gray and silver tones, so white or gray wall tile shares their color range. For the walls, white bathroom tiles and gray bathroom tiles gather the options by color.
Split face ledger panels for an accent wall
Split face ledger panels are stacked strips of travertine with a rough, natural face, tagged for interior walls. Silver travertine comes in 6x24, 6x12 and 4.5x16 panels, and Tuscany Scabas in a 6x24 panel and a 6x12 corner piece for outside corners. A ledger panel wall behind a freestanding tub or a vanity adds texture and shadow to a bathroom. All the travertine in other rooms is in travertine tiles.
