Let's get the wild idea out of the way first. This is called "gradient tile". It's a mini stained glass mosaic - it comes on backing sheets - and you buy it in "columns" of seven or eight 12x12 sheets (you see one column in the picture - click to make it bigger). You install the sheets vertically in sequence, and the tile shades from dark to light (or from light to dark, if you install them upside down) as your eye travels up the wall. You'd think that sort of thing would involve an expert mosaicist, placing tesserae one by one on the wall, and cost the earth. Ah, the joys of mechanization! It's actually very reasonable, prefab. If my bathroom weren't so small and lumpy already ....
This is fun stuff - glass with wrinkly silver backing - you're seeing a 12x12 square (as you will throughout this post, unless otherwise noted). As a generous accent tile, with white bricks?
Stained glass ripply ovals. Again, probably as an accent with something else, e.g. white stained glass bricks or squares.
Clear and frosted, slightly green:
This is lovely stuff - I have a sample of it - the picture does not do it justice (click to see it bigger). It's a very thin glass tile that really looks like mother-of-pearl.
From the top : I love #1 (but is it evident when you put two panels together that they are panels ?). #2 is super cool. #3 isn't so much my style at all. I like #4 a whole lot. #5 is pretty, but I think it could maybe be too much sparkly for one room (at least for me).
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