12 Beachy Bali Style Bathroom Tile Ideas

A province of Indonesia, breathtaking Bali is one of the most beautiful and welcoming islands in the world. Popular with backpackers and honeymooners alike, Bali is part of the coral triangle; home to more than 600 species of coral, many thousands of fish and the majestic green sea turtles.

Bali is famous for its coral reefs, sandy beaches and volcanic mountains. It’s a picture-perfect holiday destination, with tourism making up a whopping 80% of the country’s economy. 

Bali is also known for its laid-back lifestyle and focus on health and wellbeing. With warmth and sunshine for most of the year, it’s easy to see why residents and tourists adore this slice of paradise.

If you’d like to bring the beauty of Bali into your bathroom, keep reading for fresh ideas and inspiration.

Bring the beauty of Bali into your bathroom with inspirational natural effect tiles, like stone and wood as well as tangible textures.

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Recommended Tile: Blue Nile

What is Bali style?

Hugely influenced by Hinduism, Bali’s culture is known for its art, dance, drama and a deep respect for nature. Known as the land of 1000 temples, there are actually far more, including spectacular sea temples, all with exquisite sculpted details.

Balinese architecture is among the most popular in tropical Asia. The high level of craftsmanship, attention to detail and use of natural materials like bamboo and coconut wood have created some of the world’s most distinctive and beautiful buildings. 

Subtle, relaxed and super stylish, Balinese interiors embrace minimal, natural décor, with materials like stone, wood and tree fibres featuring heavily. 

What tiles should I choose for a Bali-style bathroom?

Inspired by nature, the Balinese style favours muted colours, natural materials and plenty of texture. 

Natural stone tiles like slate, marble and travertine are all excellent options. You can also opt for realistic stone-effect porcelain tiles.

Textured tiles, delicate mosaics and wood-effect tiles can all be used to create a Bali-style bathroom. You’ll want to steer away from bright colours and choose natural tones of blue and green as well as earthier shades of terracotta, cream and beige.

Bali style bathroom tile ideas

Ready to create a tropical bathroom paradise? Here’s our pick of the most gorgeous Bali-style bathroom tiles:

Green tiles

The colour of the lush rainforests, green is an excellent option if you want to create a tropical-looking bathroom oasis.  Look for green tiles in natural shades for the best effect and pair them with plenty of wood and other natural materials.

Gorgeous green tiles are ideal for creating your idyllic bathroom sanctuary, blissfully calm and tropical you’re sure to find your perfect shade.

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Recommended Tile: Coral Brick Moss 

Grey and patterned tiles

Keep it neutral with black, white and grey tiles. You can play around with tiles of different sizes, choose tiles with different textures and combine tiles with bold patterns to great effect.

Soften the tiles with a variety of wooden and woven textures and plenty of plants to give your bathroom a natural Balinese vibe.

Recommended Tiles: Dorset Bevelled Silver & Damask Series Décor 1

Light stone tiles

If you want to create a bathroom that’s at one with nature, using as many natural materials as possible will help you achieve your goal. 

Real stone tiles are beautiful and hardwearing. Look for large-format, light-coloured tiles to maximise the feeling of space in your bathroom.

Light stone bathroom tiles

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Recommended Tile: Amerka Bianco

White and grey tiles

Sticking with the neutral theme, white and grey tiles are timeless favourites. Versatile and available in just about every conceivable style, pair distressed stone-effect floor tiles with our favourite metro tiles for a winning combination.

For an enduring look, grey and white tiles are treasured colours. Classic and neutral they are ideally suited in your Balinese bathroom. Available in a massive range of shades and sizes.

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Recommended Tiles: Dorset Smooth White & Amazon Green Slate

White, marble and mosaic tiles

For a sophisticated take on the Balinese bathroom theme, try combining different materials and different tile sizes to create a luxe-looking space. Marble is exceptionally versatile and can be matched will all other types of tile. We love the contrast between the huge floor tiles and the small, slimline rectangular shower tiles in this chic bathroom.

Majestic marble is always a chic and elegant choice, combine different materials, shapes and sizes to create a fresh feel and complement marble with simple tiles.

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Recommended Tile: Alba Oro

Pebble tiles

You can’t get much beachier than a natural pebble tile. Fabulous on floors and walls, these tiles are a wonderful way to create a relaxed yet elegant feel in your bathroom.

Pebble tiles are an inspired choice for shower floor areas and wet rooms as their smooth and varied texture creates an effective non-slip surface. 

Pebbled tiled bathroom

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Natural stone tiles

Bring nature into your bathroom by choosing natural slate or travertine tiles. Real stone tiles can be more expensive than porcelain tiles, but they are arguably the most attractive due to their natural variations.

You can choose to use stone tiles on the bathroom floors and/or walls and they are fine to use in shower areas and wet rooms as long as they’re sealed periodically.

Bali is a natural paradise, use stone effect tiles to create your health and well being space in your bathroom.

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Recommended Tile: DD biscuit 

Wood effect tiles

One of the best ways to create a nature-inspired bathroom is to introduce texture and what better way to do that than with wood-effect porcelain tiles? 

Practical and pleasing to the eye, wood effect tiles are produced with such realistic textures that they’re hard to distinguish from the real thing. You’ll also never need to worry about varnishing, rotting or warping.

Wood effect porcelain tiles are perfectly practical and versatile. They add texture, warmth and nature to your bathroom with delightful charm and grace.

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Recommended Tile: Naturae Wood Effect Hazel 

Splitface tiles

Striking slate or slate-effect porcelain splitface tiles are perfect for achieving a rustic, outdoorsy-looking bathroom. Designed to impress, these tiles produce an irregular, random effect that works as well indoors as it does outside.

An outdoor shower might not be on everyone’s wish list, but you can certainly use tiles to bring the feeling of the great outdoors into your bathroom. 

Outdoor shower with spitface tiles

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Recommended Tile: Arun Oxido

Concrete style tiles

If you’d prefer something a little different to wood or stone, give more industrial-style concrete effect tiles a go.  Great for adding texture and conveying a relaxed, informal feel, concrete-style tiles can completely transform a bathroom.

Combine concrete tiles with wooden, metal and stone elements and accessorise with plenty of plants.

Convert your bathroom using concrete style tiles and bring the great outdoors in, simple and informal concrete effect gives a very rustic finish.

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Recommended Tile: Amerka Cenere

Lilypad tiles

Patterned tiles are ideal for lifting tired bathrooms and adding character and depth to walls and floors and hexagonal, lilypad tiles can make a serious style statement.

Opt for muted colours like green, blue, grey and even soft pink and combine them with wood and/or stone effect tiles for a match made in tropical paradise.

Outdoor bathroom with lilypad tiles

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Recommended Tile: Ava Aqua Decor

Hotel style tiles

Bali boasts some of the world’s most upscale hotels. Take inspiration from interior designers and clad your bathroom in luxurious-looking, hotel-style tiles.

Stone, marble and elegant mosaic tiles are all excellent options and you can easily combine more than one tile type in a bathroom. Think like the design pros and use different-sized tiles to define a feature wall or specific zone within the room.

Bali is known as one of the most welcoming islands in the world, a very popular holiday destination with it’s beautiful coral reefs, beaches and mountains. It’s hotel are also renowned for the luxury they offer. Stone, marble and mosaic can all be combined to great effect, including as a feature wall.

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Recommended Tile: Eco Stone Antracite

Balinese style bathroom tile tips 

Whether you prefer the hotel-luxe or laid-back beachy look, here’s what to think about when choosing tiles for your Bali style bathroom:

• Channel Mother Nature – Balinese people have a deep respect for nature and it shows in their homes. Use tiles made from natural materials like stone or get the look with wood and stone effect porcelain.
• Stick to neutral shades – While it’s true that bold, brights are off limits for this relaxed style of decor, you can choose from a range of natural neutrals including palm leaf green, sea blue, baked clay colours, cream, black and white.
• Add plenty of texture –  Texture is key when it comes to creating a natural-looking bathroom so have fun picking out ripples, waves and stipples, creating texture with mosaics and using wood-effect, zellige style and quirky pebble tiles.

Atlas Ceramics has a wide range of luxury and natural-looking tiles to help you bring Bali to your bathroom. Browse our selection yourself or call one of our experts for advice.