One of the latest trends for the bathroom is to place vertical rectangular tiles, with the narrowest part of the piece parallel to the ground.
The normal or “standard” arrangement of the tiles is the horizontal shape, just like the bricks and stones of the masonry walls. In the case of bricks and stones, it is understood that it must be so to make the wall stronger and instinctively we move this arrangement to the tiling, although in reality they do not hold the walls. They only cover them to protect them from water while giving the color and finish chosen to the bathroom.
For that and perhaps, because the fireproof metro tile and its different variants in colors and shades are still in fashion, it is played with this type of small and rectangular tiles changing their ordinary arrangement and to some extent predictable for a variant that offers a different effect.
This option is as simple to place as the horizontal, and creates a clean design that reinforces the verticality of the wall making it look more stylized.
As in its horizontal version its arrangement can be linear, –which consists of placing one piece over another-, or to bevel by the widest part of the pieces or by the narrowest part in which case half of two pieces would rest on the narrow side of a single piece.
BATHROOMS WITH VERTICAL TILES PLACED IN LINEAR DISPOSITION
This is the most minimalist way to place them with a clean and elegant result.

Via @kiwirenovate

Via @bathroomsupastore

Via @tile_ lab

Via @huntingforgeorge

Via @yourhaven
BATHROOMS WITH TILES TO MATAJUNTAS
This is a more dynamic and casual option of laying the tiles.

Via @spaceshackldn
A CARTABON FOR ITS STRONGER PART

Via @two_ bears_at
BATHROOMS WITH TILES TO VERTICAL MATAJUNTAS

Via @rwnorthsydney
Cover image @bybrunostudio
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