07/04/2026
Our master en-suite is painted a punchy jade green to tone with the original mosaic Victorian floor tiles. (Swipe left)
It’s impossible to know whether a bathroom featured in this house when it was first built in 1861, although according to Chat GPT the date syncs with very early bathrooms & the encaustic geometric rich jade tiles reflect what was popular, so it is possible.
It may of course have been added later, either way it’s over 100 years old and quite damaged in places, ‘repaired’ over the years with badly filled cement but the preloved appearance is really quite stunning (although not to everyone’s taste, my Mum commented ‘such a shame you haven’t replaced this old floor’ when she first visited. 😊)
Finding a paint to work with it was really quite a challenge as it’s quite a bold colour and I wanted something that allowed it floor to pop, without competing with it.
Antique Jade 81 was the perfect pairing, together with Tiffany encaustic tiles in the shower.
All the plumbing runs around the perimeter of the room, behind cladded walls. The shower stands on a plinth to hide the pipe work underneath and the bath waste flows down into a flex pipe fed sideways into the adjacent wall.
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