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Thanks! What color is the wall tile? I'm looking for a light beige or greyish color in a 12x24.

It's travertine tiles.

Thanks! Hoping for more posts.

i used 12 x 12 botticino marble in both my bathrooms for both floors and walls. The shower floor and the accent trim are both mosaic of the same marble--very subtle. I posted pictures under "pics of my new bathrooms" last June. The tile is creamy beige, though, not the pinkish color that the pictures show.

Nycbluedevil - thanks I'll do a search hopefully I'll figure out how to find your link.

We used a blue/gray but smaller than you were looking for.

Beagles - thanks for the pictures. I'm definitely thinking lighter, but I'm getting some great ideas from these pictures. You must love taking a bath in that bathroom. It looks great.

Floor is 13x13. At the door to the room is an accent area: 6.5 x 6.5 with 2x2 border. Shower walls are 10x13 with a strip of mosaic accent; 2x2s on shower floor.

HTH!

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yvette123 and nycbluedevil - I love the look of your bathrooms. I am looking for a natural stone tile, but my GC is telling me that the maintenance/staining will be awful. How are your shower tiles holding up? We have some rust problems with our water and I am not the type to dry off the shower after each use. Our bathrooms get cleaned every other week.

rufinorox - I hope you get some more ideas because I need them too!

Motherof3

I am a mother of 3 too and have also used variations of that for user names, etc.! So we think alike, especially considering that you like the natural stone!

There is no question that marble is higher maintenance than ceramic or other materials. I have been living with the new bathrooms for six months and this is what I can tell you.

First, we are most definitely not people who are going to squeegee the shower every time we use it. But since I want the shower to remain nice, this is what I do.

First, the bar soap is outlawed because you can't use cleaners that will remove the soap scum and in my view, the specially formulated cleaners (like 409 for stone) are pretty useless.

Second, we put in a handshower and we do spray down the shower with it after each use. That is easy because we continue to run the rainhead and the body sprays while we run the handshower so we don't stand in there naked and freezing which would discourage compliance! The handshower is key!!

Third, we have no door, so that reduces mildew issues. We do use a mild bleach solution every week, which takes care of mildew and cleans the grout.

Where a bit of soapy film (DH cheats a bit on the soap rule I think) builds up around the bottom course of tile, I use a tiny bit of soft scrub very sparingly in place of the useless stone cleaners.

Finally, during the past week, I have noticed a bit of rust around the drain, where the water sits a bit before the shower dries out. I used a bit of BKF on it and now, after I shower, I dry off the floor around the drain by just throwing the bath mat into the shower and leaving it there until the next shower. I am willing to do that much.

With those caveats, I have to say that I am loving the bathrooms. There is nothing quite like marble. It is so soothingly spa-like. I smile every time I go in there!

Hope this helps.

Thank you NYCBlueDevil! I appreciate your reply. I think natural stone is not going to be an option for me. It would be difficult to get my husband (and myself) to rinse the shower down daily. I do love your bathrooms and I am glad you are still enjoying them. Finding an alternative porcelain stone is very frustrating!