haha! I'm laughing. Thank you for the input. yes, the lights drive me crazy. From previous owner. I haven't tackled this room yet, because it's low priority for me... but I've been forced to give it some attention, now. I'd really prefer another style, but I suppose we could at least flip them the correct way. The art is original to the previous owner as well. They left everything behind! I just haven't gotten to this room since we're blending a family with 11 kids, doing the distance learning thing, and have a bunch of repairs and higher priority projects I've focused on. Literally didn't even touch some of the ordinary art just out of exhaustion. lol! Love the input so far! Thank you

@blubird yes I think that's what happened. I believe they needed a shower on the main floor for the lady who was elderly and could no longer climb the stairs. @catbuilder i know it won't fix the leak--only ripping the whole thing apart will do that. we aren't going to use the shower until that happens which is several years down the road. Right now I am just trying to make it a nicer looking bathroom until that happens. I took off the shower frame and plan to use the space for a nice storage piece--the bathroom feels So much bigger and more pleasant without anything there. So no need for a shower curtain bc it will just make it feel small again. Just trying to figure out this flooring issue.

Marble never really stopped being used in bathrooms, it just wasn't particularly common or seen in the great quantities that it is showing up in, in some otherwise modest houses now. But the tract house my parents bought in 1958 had a marble threshold and window sill in an otherwise plain bathroom and my 1950s college dorm had marble shower stalls and toilet partitions, but that was for durability, they certainly weren't worried about matching veining and such. I am not sure why this has to be about having either a bathroom you like or one you don't like, really that sort of either/or is sort of predicated on the idea that the only bathroom someone is going to like is the one that is currently fashionable and if you do something that is not currently fashionable, then you aren't going to like it. Or that the "appropriate" sort of bathroom for an older rather than brand new trend-laden house is always going to be something disappointing. The alternative to the Pinterest bathroom du jour is not automatically terrible or ugly or dated bathroom, I don't buy it. Back when I actually did design kitchens and bathrooms for people, there were a few people who thought this way, if it wasn't completely the most current thing to be seen, they weren't going to be happy when it was done. And I spent a lot of time talking them out of picking every shiny object that caught their eye because I knew that infatuation would not last. In the six months between when they picked something out and when it was installed they already liked something else better, and that's when it's still new, not after it's been in the house for years like a bathroom is. Don't believe it? I have been around these forums long enough that I have seen plenty of people who seven years ago said "Oh do this, it's timeless it's classic, it's perfect" and now they are saying how ugly and tired and overdone that same thing is. If it's a pair of shoes, fine whatever you can throw them away after wearing them a couple times. But very few people are going to redo an entire tile job every few years when it is now longer the best thing on Pinterest. Of the two bathrooms the OP posted, the first one is very handsome, and it's all white which is never really a problem, my question is "Is that much marble really a good fit in an older house which probably has otherwise pretty modest finishes that may not be changing". The second one, I think is the sort of thing that is not great design now, it's probably the harvest gold bathroom of the future. It pushes a lot of Pinterest buttons for being photogenic and making lots of good vignettes and such, but I don't think it's well designed, it's eye-catching in media.

Fantastic transformation! You did a great job on the tile floor. It's beautiful. Just be careful with that wicker basket next to the wall heater (assuming it works and is not purely decorative).