Marble bathroom tiles: 5 real marble mosaics, 14 marble looks and 8 installed rooms

Short answer: Nineteen tiles here sit in the two marble collections, and the Material row splits them. Five record Marble: all of them Carrara mosaics, sold by the sheet, with one finish each and no slip class on the page. Fourteen are Pietra marble-look tiles that record Porcelain: sold by the box, ten pages recording P2 and four recording P3, and eleven of them now asking you to choose the finish before the tile goes in the cart. All nineteen are in the bathroom tiles collection. Of the twelve bathroom-type rooms on this site's Styling ideas blog, eight use one of them: four a real marble mosaic, four a marble look.

This page puts the two groups side by side for a bathroom: what each product page records, how each is counted, and which installed rooms show them. Facts were read from the product pages, the collections and the installed posts on 5 October 2026.

1. Two kinds of marble, one Material row

A tile's name and its face tell you what it looks like; the Material row tells you what the supplier's documentation records it is made of. On the five Carrara mosaics in the marble tiles collection that row reads Marble. On the fourteen Pietra tiles in marble look tiles it reads Porcelain. Four more mosaics carry the Carrara name without being marble (section 6). Where the material values come from, and why a name or a photograph cannot settle them, is set out in The five tiles here that are actually stone and Is Carrara marble? Nine tiles here, three materials, so this page does not repeat it.

2. The five real marble mosaics, row by row

All five are sold by the sheet, with a sample piece as the only other option, and each records a single finish, so there is no finish to choose at order: Round and Fan read Honed; Large Hexagon, Stack and Petite Herringbone read Polished. All five record 8 mm. Sheets per square metre are the product page's own figure, from the stated sheet size, with no allowance. None of the five product descriptions has a slip rating line, so the page shows its slip-rating reference row as Not specified: no class is recorded, which says nothing about whether a class would be high or low. Mosaic tiles: the sizes and materials of the twelve here sets these five beside the seven mosaics that are not marble.

3. The fourteen marble looks, row by row

All fourteen record Porcelain and 10 mm. Twelve are made in two sizes and let you choose the size on the product page; the two Vela tiles come only in 600 × 1200 mm. Eleven let you choose the finish as well. Pietra Perla records honed only and Pietra Vela matt only, and Pietra Vela Fluted records a fluted profile with no finish row.

Each of the fourteen pages records one slip class for the product: ten P2 and four P3. It sits in the product description and applies to the tile as a whole, so it reads the same whichever size or finish you select. The page does not say which finish the class was measured on, so it cannot tell you whether one finish of the same tile would classify differently, and this guide does not compare them. The page also adds its own caution: "Slip rating is a reference figure — confirm it for the intended application." What a P class is, and where the building code names one, is in Tile slip ratings: what P3, P4 and R10 mean. Size families, joint lengths and colours for all fourteen are in Marble-look tiles: 14 faces compared.

4. Eight installed bathrooms, and which marble each one uses

The Styling ideas blog holds nineteen posts. Twelve are tagged bathroom, shower or powder room, and eight of those twelve use a tile from this page. Each line below quotes only what the post says. A post records where a tile was laid in a job the shop did not specify or supervise; it shows where the tile went, not where it may be used. The product record and your installer decide that.

Real marble: Carrara Petite Herringbone and Carrara Round

• Carrara Petite Herringbone in a main bathroom: in the shower recess “the herringbone runs the full width of the wall, broken only by a square niche and a shuttered window”, and “Across the open floor the same herringbone keeps its direction from the bath to the doorway”.
• Carrara Petite Herringbone across a bath and shower: “the wall is nothing but herringbone above the bath rim”; in the shower corner “the field runs the full height of the frame and turns the corner”.
• Carrara Petite Herringbone in a shower and on the floor: the tile “carries around the corner onto the narrow return at the left”, and on the floor “the herringbone runs away on a diagonal”.
• Carrara Round as a powder room floor: “laid as the floor of a small powder room”, where “The rounds sit in offset rows, each piece ringed by a narrow line of pale grout”.

Marble look: Pietra Luna and Pietra Perla

• Pietra Luna in a marble bathroom: “on the walls and across the floor”, so that “the room reads as one pale field rather than two surfaces”.
• Pietra Luna on a vanity wall: “the tile carries the vanity wall as one low band, sitting level under the brass tapware”, and the same tile runs across the floor.
• Pietra Luna in a walk-in shower: the surface “runs up the back wall and around the return”, and its joints “line up both ways rather than stepping like brickwork”.
• Pietra Perla in a bathroom with a bath: “The floor is laid in a straight grid”, and “Behind the bath the same grey climbs the wall”.

Two gaps run through all eight. No post gives a height or a dimension in millimetres. And for Pietra Luna, which records two sizes and two finishes, no post says which size or finish was laid; Pietra Perla records one finish but two sizes, and no post says which size. The two mosaics record one finish and one sheet each, so their posts leave nothing open on those rows. The other four bathroom-type rooms, and where each tiled surface stops, are in Ensuite and bathroom tile ideas: 12 installed rooms.

5. Honed, polished or matt: a choice you now make at order

Since 5 October 2026, the eleven Pietra tiles that record two finishes ask you to pick one on the product page: honed or polished on Latte, Storm, Sienna, Cream, Bianco and Neve; polished or matt on Dove, Smoke, Shadow, Alba and Luna. The order is placed for the finish you choose. A sample piece is offered for each finish, and one cut piece stands for either size, so a sample of the finish you intend to order is the one to put in the room. The five marble mosaics have nothing to choose: one finish each, one sample piece each.

A finish word describes how a face looks; it is not a slip class, and none of these pages links the two. The twelve ways this range writes a finish sets out what each finish word on the site records.

6. Four Carrara names that are not marble

Carrara Herringbone, Carrara Hexagon and Carrara Square record Ceramic, and Carrara White Strip records Porcelain. All four sit in the bathroom tiles collection beside the five marble mosaics, and their pages, like the marble ones, show the slip-rating row as Not specified. If the material matters to you, read the Material row, not the name.

7. Sheet or box: how each is counted

The two groups are ordered in different units, so the same wall gives two different kinds of number. Take an assumed 2.4 m² of wall, say 2 m wide and 1.2 m high, and an assumed 10% allowance, which your tiler sets: 2.64 m² to order against. Add the allowance first, then divide, then round up once, in the order How to measure a tiling project sets out.

The same 2.64 m² in any Pietra tile is 2.64 ÷ 1.44 = 1.83, so 2 boxes, because every Pietra box shown on the product pages covers 1.44 m². The source of that figure differs by size. For a 600 × 600 mm box, and for the two single-size Vela tiles, it comes from the supplier's current documentation. For a 300 × 600 mm or 600 × 1200 mm box on a tile made in two sizes, the page uses the typical pack for that size and says the supplier's current documentation does not state it, so confirm the actual box before ordering. The numbers above are an illustration on assumed measurements, not an order quantity.

Questions people ask

Is marble-look tile real marble?

Not on this site. The fourteen marble-look tiles record Porcelain in the Material row; the name describes the face. The five tiles that record Marble are all Carrara mosaics.

Which of the bathroom tiles here are real marble?

Five of the 56 in the bathroom tiles collection record Marble: Carrara Round, Carrara Fan, Carrara Large Hexagon, Carrara Stack and Carrara Petite Herringbone, all mosaic sheets sold by the sheet. Four of the eight installed bathrooms above use one of them: Petite Herringbone in three, Round in one.

Do the marble mosaics record a slip rating?

No. On all five the slip-rating row reads Not specified, meaning the supplier's current documentation does not state a class. The fourteen marble-look tiles each record one class for the product, P2 or P3, without saying which finish it was measured on; the page calls it a reference figure to confirm for the intended application.

Can I get a sample of each finish?

Yes, on the eleven Pietra tiles with a finish choice a sample piece is offered for each finish, and the same piece serves either size. See tile samples.

Where these facts come from

Read on 5 October 2026: the nineteen product pages above and the four non-marble Carrara mosaics (Material, finish, size, thickness, slip-rating and box rows, and the size, finish and sample options); the bathroom tiles collection, which held 47 products on 5 October 2026 and 56 from 6 October 2026, and the marble tiles and marble look tiles collections; and the nineteen Styling ideas posts, eight of them quoted here. The marble mosaic finishes were updated on 4 October 2026 from supplier documentation, when the mosaics also began to be sold by the sheet. The Pietra Material and slip-rating rows were updated on 1 October 2026 from supplier documentation. The size and finish choices, the per-finish samples and the typical pack for a second size have been on the product pages since 5 October 2026. Material values and slip classes come from the supplier's documentation; this site holds no test reports for them. Every count on this page can be recounted on those pages.

This page records what the product pages and posts state. It is not a statement of where any of these tiles may be used, how they should be laid, or how they should be cleaned or sealed; the product pages do not record a care method for either group. Next step: order samples of the finish you intend from tile samples, and work through How to choose bathroom tiles: seven decisions before the order goes in. Where this guide sits: Where to start sets out the order the guides follow.

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