I am in the process of building a master suite with white subway tiles and "marble" hexagon floors. My top is a solid surface carrara color. I choose a light grey vanity that picks up the grey in the marble veining, and I painted the walls BM Hale Navy. Pictures don't do it justice. It's glorious. (Don't mind the dirty walls. It's a construction zone. lol)

hello Jillianfl. Top photo is the one I used to remodle my last bathroom. I loved it and got lots of compliments on it. I'm now renovating a new home, and I have the same concerns about the shower flooring. Did you end up getting some advice? What did you end up going with? Thanks in advance!

Renee you must be overwhelmed with all of these comments. Your countertops are GORGEOUS, so I do hope you keep them. Sophie's suggestion to stain the floors is well worth looking into. For what it is worth my suggestion for your backsplash is to go with a simple solid tile in a lighter color that coordinates with the countertop. I would suggest you not go too small with the tile- 3x6 to 4x12 would be a good size to stick with. You want to avoid too much movement in the backsplash as the counter (and the floor) have quite a bit of movement and you do not want them competing. Let the countertop be the star of the show. Good luck and let us know how it all ends up for you.

Minpho, the grout they added does nothing. Grout is not waterproof. It is like a placeholder between the tiles that directs the water downhill to the drain and then when it does let small amounts of water through (because it is porous), it also allows that same water right back out again as it dries (because it is porous). Grout has worked fine for centuries despite this if the shower is built correctly underneath the tile. A properly sloped and waterproofed shower floor never looks like yours did after 8 days of drying out. Even with marble ("hard sponges") and grout (which lets water in and back out), your shower floor has an obvious problem. You can see what it is. The wet area is not sloping enough toward the drain to dry out, or it is not built on a waterproof bed - and the soggy bed underneath it is full of stagnant water that is keeping your tile wet. Or both. Your builder is responsible to give you a waterproof shower that does not leak, does not pool water underneath the tile, and dries out after showers. There are things that can help you in this situation, but you must act now to handle this correctly. Listen to the people here who have "PRO" under their pictures. Most of them have great advice - especially anyone having to do with tile. You may also have help available from your building inspector. Was your shower inspected as it was being built? Does your town do that? Did they okay the pre-slope and the waterproofing method? Go read the things that Creative Tile Eastern CT linked you to read. Ask more questions if it does not make sense to you. You MUST at this point make yourself understand how a shower is supposed to be built because you are now in negotiations with a builder who is not going to want to tear the whole thing out and redo it. Re-read what Creative Tile told you. He is telling you how to talk to your builder about this, what to ask about how the shower was built. You first have to read up on showers and understand terms like "pre-slope," "waterproofing," "shower pan membrane," and "clamping drain." Because otherwise, you can't discuss this and negotiate with your builder. That is why sometimes having the building inspector on your side about whether the shower was inspected during its construction (or not) is good. But if your building inspectors don't do that with new houses, then they are useless to you. Calling the town building department and asking if the inspectors do inspection on showers to ensure they are sloped and waterproofed properly before they are tiled in new home construction will tell you whether the building department will be any help to you. If they are supposed to do the inspection and your builder did not have it done, then the building inspector may come look at your shower and tell the builder to fix it.