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This story is part of Domino’s 2026 Bed & Bath Trend Watch. Read the entire issue here.
It began with Berlin content creator Celli Duske’s kitchen DIY. The project sparked the kind of “aha” moment that can be so rare as an interiors editor: Swap standard wood baseboards for a row of ceramic squares, and suddenly an overlooked architectural detail becomes an essential design element. Then, we started to notice the idea everywhere. Specifically, bathrooms. Solid-colored, checkered, extra-chunky—designers’ renditions run the gamut. Yet the result is always the same: a space that feels considered down to the last inch.
Name something more satisfying than how design studio Looks Generous arranged the green floor tiles to perfectly line up with the matching baseboards in this Melbourne bathroom.
Especially tall baseboards in their own unique pattern help connect the wide-ranging material palette in this Australian country home’s bathroom by Loopea Design Studio.
Studio Duggan didn’t hold back in this London row house’s guest bath, using the same checkerboard zellige tile for the sink backsplash, shower walls, and skirting.
In this Warsaw, Poland, pied-à-terre, designer Dawid Konieczny kept the bathroom color scheme tight, simply switching up the scale of the red tile to differentiate the shower border.
Designer Zoë Feldman took rosy-hued subway tile up and out in her Washington, D.C., primary bathroom, creating a tiny ledge around the perimeter of the room.
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