You would love to retile your bathroom or replace that dirty, dingy, old backsplash in the kitchen with a nice new ceramic tile one.
You are also aware of the fact that your DIY skills are not exactly stellar and that calling in a tiling professional will be the only way such a remodeling project will turn out the right way.
This is something you are pretty sure you cannot afford right now so you resign yourself to having to put it off for another year. Not so fast. There are ways to save money on your new tile installation and still get the beautifully updated kitchen or bathroom you have been craving.
Tile Size
Ask the ceramic tile salesman to point you towards the most economical size for the area you will need covered. Tiles that measure four inches by four inches or even six inches by six inches are often the right choice for a bathroom floor and the total bill at the tile store will obviously be less. Even better, with fewer tiles to install your tiling professional's bill will be smaller too.
Mix and Match
If there is a certain rather expensive tile you would dearly love to use in your remodeling project don't discount it right away because to do so would break your budget. Instead mix and match fewer of them with a plain, cheaper ceramic tile for an effect that will look clean and pulled together while still costing you less.
Play with Color
If you have crunched the numbers and plain ceramic tiling really is all that you can realistically afford who says they all have to be the same color? Two, three or even more colors used together can create an effect that looks as though it cost twice as much as it really did. Consider the classic combination of black and white for instance; in a bathroom the effect is almost always stunning.