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In my co-op my bathroom has ceramic tiles, they are mostly hairline cracks through most of them. It is an old building, and obviously settling causes this. the tile themselves are ugly.
I bought particle board and used two way tape to secure it to the floor, right over the ceramic tile, then bought wood flooring strips, and stained them to match the rest of the apartment floors and glued it onto the particle board.
My bathroon is small, 5 x 8, if that, I laid the strips in a diagonal pattern to give the small bathroom a bigger look. It has been down now for over 20 years, no problems and has held up well.
When I deceide to change I can just rip it up. Since the bathroom was so small, I wasn't going to rip up the ceramic tiles, and scrape the sub floor, which is probably ply wood, with all the mess, it was easier to do what I did.
Now the floor though is even with the saddle across the door threshold, so fortunetely there is no lip to trip. just the side where the hallways is, which there always was, because of the marble saddle that I still kept.
I have a regular size window which is always open, so moisture was not a concern.
A little scatter rug next to the toilet and call it a day.
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