I agree with Patricia as I wouldn't put wood tiles in a bathroom unless there was some kind of very specific look - but that doesn't appear to be the case with your floor and tile choices.

Do you have pictures of bathrooms that inspire you?

I just finished a remodel of my whole place including the bathrooms and I had a lot of pictures saved which were my inspirations. I also had a somewhat clear idea of what styles I liked and so I drilled down into what elements of the inspiration photos were what I was attracted to.

In my opinion, your current choices are a mishmash - basketweave marble tiles (at least to me) are more of a traditional look - I used Calacatta basketweave for master bathroom (floors and shower floors) and I agree with Patricia that having shower floors and bathroom floors the same is a nicer look in MOST cases. Again there are always design choices that are different but in your design scenario, basket weave with wood tile doesn't seem to be that case - at least in my opinion.

Your wall tiles aren't what I would choose - but that's probably more personal style. I opted for a bathroom "inspired" by a more period look so my basket weave tile floors had a wood stained vanity that was inspired by Arts & Crafts/Prairie - soft marble counter and Encore tiles in their Precocious Blue crackle glaze :-). I added Art Deco elements through my mirrors and sconces.

Thanks for the replies. I am using the wood look through the rest of the house so I am married to it. I don't have a contractor at all this is a DIY project. I just did the guest bath and I used the basket weave in black and white. I dont have a great finished pic. I wanted to kind of tie the 2 areas together. The black and white do but up to each other and look fine.

I love this bath...

here is a finished pic but you cant see the amazing job I did on the tub surround.

Your bathroom picture reads more traditional in terms of choice of vanity and counter - and the wall tile goes well with that look as seen in the whole :-).

I don't understand why you feel the need to bring wood tile into your bathroom as opposed to the lovely basketweave tile. I have wood everywhere but my bathrooms - bathrooms are usually seen as a separate design element and flooring generally doesn't "flow" with the rest of the flooring.

I think a bathroom with curbless, zero entry shower looks best when there is one floor tile in the whole room. Otherwise, it isn't visually much different than having a curb. Just a thought.

The way the bath and closets and potty are set up is why i chose to use the wood look tile. Looking from the bed room down the hall, walk in closets on each side which have the wood look tile in place. Potty on the right and again wood look in place. so it seemed natural to me to continue it all the way to the shower.

I agree about one tile and I toyed with the idea of using the wood look tile in the shower but it will be a pain with the way I did the slope. I was going to do a trench drain which would have made that easier but decided against it.

I can see what you're saying and what others are saying.

I would keep with your vision of doing the wood tile in the main bathroom, but I don't think I'd go curbless on the shower. Use a curb to make a transition to the shower. It will make the wood tile look a bit more authentic with a curb.

For vanity color, I'd choose a dark charcoal gray. For fixtures, keep it simple with brushed or satin nickel.

A DIY curbless shower? Oh boy... hope you know what you’re doing. They’re a recipe for disaster every with a good installer...

It is slab on grade, really not a big deal... I have watched a ton of you tube videos

Bri, my thought exactly, when combined with the small size of the shower. That's gonna need some serious waterproofing into the main area.

It is a big deal, Paul... did you slope the bathroom floor (not JUST the shower floor) toward the drain? Extend the waterproofing beyond the area of the shower? How far? Just because it’s a slab on grade doesn’t mean water can’t get under your tile and wick to the wood framing you have there. It can still mold as well. Being on a slab doesn’t mean it doesn’t need waterproofing.

It kind of does actually. lets say water runs out onto the main floor, where is it going to go?

It’s going to soak through the porous tile and grout and wick through the porous concrete to the sole plate and rot it out. And keep going. None of those products are waterproof.

If you don’t know how to waterproof correctly, you shouldn’t be touching any of this. You need to buy yourself a TCNA manual and learn what industry standards are.

Oh boy, do you didn’t do ANY waterproofing??

I am not seeing waterproofing anywhere and a shower with a zero entry neeeds some major work in a redo I think you have bigger issues than the tile so please post some pics of your waterproofing . I will tell you I do not like your choices for tile in the bathroom you show done as I mentioned too many different tiles make for a very busy small space. And why a shower curtain at all just a glass shower screen

The completed bathroom looks very nice. There are only two tile patterns used.

The OP didn't ask for opinions on installation methods. I wish I had his DIY skills.

Not sure which installation videos you watched, but I'd recomend watching the ones recommended by the guys over at the John Bridge forums. I spent months on that forum just to make sure I could adequately supervise the guys I hired to install my curbless shower (which fortunately made me realize the first guys had no idea what they were doing as far as waterproofing, so I hired better ones).

Ok, let me clear this all up for you. first " soak through the porous tile and grout and wick through the porous concrete to the sole plate and rot it out" No, it wont. It will go through the mud bed and into the sand under that... Second, I am going to use Hardi backer painted with red guard or Aqua defense on the walls, I will use a strip of Kerdi band set with thin set between the floor and walls. The floor will be also painted with the liquid waterproofing. Third if there is splash out it will not run to the walls and rot them out... nice try though. In some areas of the country or on a second story waterproofing needs to be done differently but slab on grade sitting on sand... not a huge deal... So thanks for all the help. John Bridge is great as long as you don't buy into the Hardi Backer isn't water proof myth... I have a piece that has sat on the grass in the rain for 2+ years... still 100% solid.

Oh and the only reason I framed any of that was to run the plumbing. The room is CMU and even if every piece of wood rotted away it wouldn't matter...

Hardi is not waterproof. It’s water resistant. Water won’t hurt it, but it will pass straight through it. It’s porous. Just like concrete of any variety, including your CMU. It is porous. Your floors and walls are porous. The capillary action of water will wick through 100 feet of concrete. Because: science.

I have a zero entry shower and used a Schluter trim (almost flat) that matched my fixtures to delineate the area (and lots of Schluter around the tile on the walls to coordinate. I also have a different tile - 2" squares of the same pattern as the 12" x 24" tile on the floor; solid 12" x 24" tile in coordinating color in the shower. It looks fine. The shower entry is not visible from the bedroom or even when you enter the bathroom; instead of a 36" opening I had a full wall about 6" wide built for a bit more privacy (it does work).

My tile could be called wood look but it's not brown or gray. I was working on a strict budget and couldn't go all out with tile as I wanted to; plain was cheaper.

Our construction supervisor was "fired" (it's a long story) the day the tilers supposedly sloped the floor to the drain. Total disaster; it looked like a ski jump at the entry of the shower. If our supervisor had been there, that would have never happened. Needless to say, the jackhammer was brought back and that all got ripped out and the slope meets code but is barely noticeable. But it was a m-a-j-o-r fight that lasted weeks to get the tile guy back.

I also wanted to do a trench drain but, on a slab, that cost was prohibitive.

I think the tile choices above are fine and I would use white cabinetry. I agree with being uber careful with the window around the window.

Your hardie backer may be solid, but I bet the ground under it still got wet!

I tore out a plastic shower pan on a slab to install my curbless shower. The water was leaking through the corners into the slab and running to the walls, rotting the exterior framing, causing stucco to flake off the exterior of the house and forming a small sink hole under the foundation. It was gross. And expensive to fix.

(I write this more to cation bystanding readers to take waterproofing seriously rather than to change your mind. It sounds like you're comfortable with your approach and have the skills and patience to re-tile if the wood happens to rot and they start popping off.)

Just because you have wood tile running to the bathroom, doesn't mean you need to continue it into the bathroom. I agree with the others that with the basketweave it's not a good look. The two are fighting one another.

I thought I had a transition to show you between my hallway to my bathroom and my bathroom tile transition but I don't. I do have this transition between my kitchen and my mudroom. The kitchen is wood and the hallway is cement tile. It can be done and people actually expect a transition in material for bathroom floors.

In my 40 years of home ownership I had one shower "leak" the house was frame with Masonite siding. They put plastic behind the siding, then insulation, then plastic, then drywall, then tile. The shower had a pan and was below the floor level. Moisture got between the inner and outer plastic and soaked the insulation and eventually rotted the bottom plate and a portion of a couple of studs. The house was about 10 years old when I had to rip it out and replace it. I only noticed it because the siding was recalled and I was replacing it with Hardi...

I did this one 2-2.5 years ago at kids house... still no leaks. Had a tub in the shower now just big shower. No liner here either.