Floor Talk! A Guide to Fabulous Flooring and Design

This week ends the shower design series. This week we have seen beautiful showers and baths and noted design elements about each. Of course, we saved the most unique for last.

Things to note about this shower:

• The designer of this shower took a “regular tile” and turned it on the diagonal. Not only did they turn the tile on the diagonal, but added a glass mosaic on the diagonal as well! What a fantastic design!
• The shower floor tile coordinates with the wall tile.
• The bathroom floor tile is the same as the wall tile in the shower. The floor tile is best to be simple and restful so that the pattern in the shower stands out as the focal point in the room.
• The edges are finished with a trim piece called bullnose to give a professional clean, finished look.
• The shower door allows the pattern to be seen an enjoyed through all of the glass.
• The tile in the shower runs all the way to the ceiling. This allows more of the pattern to be shown and the walls of the shower to appear higher.
• The corner shelf is not white. Instead, it coordinates with the wall tile and blends with the tile. This makes the corner shelf be less visible so that the pattern is the focal point.
• The shower head falls in the middle of one of the rows of decorative glass. In this case, it was more important to keep the pattern rather than to arrange the pattern around the placement of the plumbing fixture.