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Ideas for shower tile.

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This travertine will be through our porches, kitchen, laundry, hall and baths in main level.


I was thinking of a pebble tile for the floor. I lean toward Erie because I find the other too dark. Both run about $15 a square foot, so I was trying to limit it to an accent, and the slope of the shower floor seemed like a good place for a pebble mosaic.

This is Erie:


I saw this tile combined with another tile, but feared it would be too busy in the shower. I'm leaning to sticking with a large-format for the walls, or continuing the travertine down two walls, to keep it simple.



The second choice was this, but it looks dingy to me.



The bathtub is a Kohler cast iron in white, and the other fixtures will also be white.

I haven't decided for sure on the material for the tub surround. The bathtub weighs over 300 pounds, btw. It is NOT jetted, so we don't need to worry about getting in to do stuff with jets.

This is the tub surround area. It's about 3' x 3' at either end. I was wondering about sticking with my travertine for the ledge and the riser in that area, as well -- but then I'd need a different tile for a backsplash area near the window, I believe. The walls around it are sheetrocked and will be painted, rather than tiled. There's a vaulted ceiling that comes into play, with its apex right over the center of that window (several feet higher).


The shower is about 4' by a little over 6', and will be open to the bath, with no door. I wondered about doing something different on the shower walls, rather than just do all travertine, but I don't want to get too many things going on in there and have it looking disconnected. There's a sort of greyed green in the pebble tile, that I was thinking of using for the wall paint. Trim will be white. The vanity cabinet is knotty alder in a dark stain.

Ideas for the shower walls and tub surround?

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