Two people can buy the same box of 3 by 6 tile and get results a thousand dollars apart. The variable is the pattern, and it is a labor decision before it is a style one.
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The backsplash decisions that show from the doorway are height, layout and grout color. Material comes fourth, and most people pick it first.
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A bathroom is the only room in the house where the decorating has to survive standing water, steam, and a 21-inch clearance rule. Start with those, not with the paint chip.
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A queen bed in an 11-by-12 room leaves you 30 inches on one side and 24 on the other. Every furniture decision after that is arithmetic, not taste.
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Most bedrooms that feel off are not badly decorated. They are badly measured: a rug 2 feet too small, a nightstand 6 inches too low, one ceiling light doing the work of four fixtures.
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A bedroom that photographs well and lives badly usually failed at one measurement: the 30 inches of floor you need to walk past the foot of the bed.
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Most bedroom rugs are one size too small. The fix is arithmetic: 18 to 24 inches of rug past the sides and foot of the bed, measured before you shop.
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Your cabinets already decided the height of your backsplash. What is left to choose is material, termination and how the range wall gets handled, and that is where most kitchens go sideways.
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The decisions that determine whether a bathroom remodel is good get made in the first week, before a single tile is chosen, and most of them are dimensions.
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Moving a toilet 18 inches can cost more than every tile in the room. Knowing which changes are cheap and which are structural is what separates a good bathroom from an expensive one.
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