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Why is it so hard to find nice mosaic tile made of porcelain?
Thoughts on this for a bathroom floor - glossy porcelain mosaic. Too slippery (have little kids)?
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Mosaic tile is not a poor choice for a bathroom floor.
Mosaic tile is harder to install than regular tile. Harder to cut, harder to lay out evenly, and harder to level. Find someone who is able and willing to do this work, as your tiler is apparently neither.
If your floor is not level, it needs to be leveled. Without that, larger tiles could break and smaller tiles will show the unevenness. Which of those two problems is worse? That's up to you.
Mosiac tile is not "meant for showers". You can find countless examples of mosaic tiles use in bathrooms, foyers, living rooms, entire public buildings, outdoors, and so on. Some of them have lasted quite a while.
You don't renovate a bathroom too often. Get what you want out of it!
Mosaic tile looks nice, but it's HARD to clean.
Mosaic tile has FAR more grout lines than large tile, and grout lines are MUCH harder to clean than the tile itself, both because the grout lines are recessed and because they are slightly porous (no matter how well you try to seal them), so they absorb dirt, mold and stains. Over time, they can become nearly impossible to get fully clean looking.
This is a key reason why many people use large tiles on floors these days, whether ceramic or stone.
I speak from 20+ years of personal experience trying to keep my multiple bathroom floors clean -- all having mosaic tiles. I love the look, but the cleaning difficulty is a MAJOR negative.
P.S. Regarding installation, mosaic is also MUCH more work to properly grout -- again because there are so many grout lines. That is why your installer tried to steer you away from it.
I see so many interesting tile shapes made out of glazed ceramic or marble, but pretty much all porcelain mosaics are either 2x2 squares, subway tile shaped, penny rounds and sometimes hexagon. What gives where is the good porcelain mosaic tile