Always choose non-slip ceramic tiles for bathrooms or other rooms where the floor is likely to get wet. Bathrooms can be tricky to tile because of the fixed objects like wash basins, WCs and plumbing that you need to fix tiles around. Often you will have to cut odd shapes from tiles so they fit snugly around the obstacles. The other problem is getting access to work in an all-too-often very small area.
Tile around the trickier areas after you have hung all the main field tiles. It's a lot easier, and you'll waste fewer tiles, if you take the time to cut some thin sheets of cardboard - empty cereal boxes are ideal - to exactly the same size as the tiles you are using. This way you can make an accurate template for each tile you need to cut. Where tiles have to fit around curved edges, use a cardboard template with 'fingers' cut along the edge. These can be pressed and creased against the obstacle and the creased, curved outline transferred to the tile. You will then have to nibble away at the tile with pincers.
Tiling around a thin-diameter water pipe is best achieved using two half tiles with matching curved notches cut in the edges so when the two halves are hung, the tiles fit appropriately spaced.
If you have a number of awkward shapes to tile around, you may wish to measure the distances between your bathroom fittings and transfer them onto a scale plan drawn on graph paper to work out how to make the most efficient use of your tiles.
