Textured walls are pretty standard in CA - 90% of houses have them. Also, the rest of my house has Splatter Knockdown style texturing, so it would look odd for just the bathroom to have smooth walls.
I recommend caulking at the ceiling and all inside corners. As the house flexes and swells throughout the year, the movement can crack grout in those areas. It might not be that big of a problem in CA where you don't have actual seasons.
Yes I planned to caulk all of those areas.
Yikes. I don't know what to tell you to do there. If it is that glazed ceramic wall tile, you might not be able to cut something that small. Maybe even with a wet saw. That was a problem that needed to be addressed with the initial layout. Have you considered crown molding?
Crown molding would not look right - I can cut the tile that small, I have a wetsaw and it's probably the route I will take, just a PITA
Also, it's not really something that could have been addressed in the initial layout (as far as the sloping of the walls/ceiling goes), it's just happenstance with an older house that has settled. I could have cut a half row on the bottom and had a half row on the top, but this being my first tile experience I didn't look far enough ahead to plan for that issue. Either way, I'd be in a tough spot for cutting the top row of tile.
Thanks buddy, we're getting there
