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Floor:
Cork (warm, sustainable, needs occasional maintenance, only comes in brown)
Linoleum (warm, sustainable (made of cork and linseed oil), needs occasional maintenance, comes in lots of bright colours that will remind you of primary school)
Vinyl (warm, made of plastic, hardwearing, can get it to look like anything, if you want photorealistic pebbles etc go for it).Walls: Umm...
You only really 'need' tiles in a shower. Rest of room can just be paint. With paint, you either go with the Kitchen and Bathroom style stuff which is hardwearing and might have some mould resist, but means everything tends to get quite condensation-y, or you can go completely the other way and have a more absorbent finish that takes water vapour out of the air and releases it later, reducing condensation (eg. hempcrete and wallpaper, clay-based paint and plasters maybe). It's a bit of a niche approach though. In my imaginary future house, I'd have hydro-buffering everything, no extract fans and no condensation, that's the dream... In Italy you see oiled/waxed polished plaster in bathrooms, I imagine that would be difficult to get done in UK.
You could also vinyl sheet up the walls...
Or move your shower/bath away from the walls entirely and use a curtain.
hoefla-
I'm a big fan of cork for a floor, the gf needs persuading though. I need to get some samples. I didn't know lino was made of cork.
It's the walls i'm concerned about. I've seen tile-alternative sheet materials, most recently these https://www.recosurfaces.com/gallery/. I'm a bit concerned an entire room in it would look a bit odd. Maybe like a kill room or something. I would be able to do all the bathroom myself then though and hide the old tiles underneath.
root
Does anyone have a very rational hatred of tiles in a bathroom? What are my options?