Bath Shower Home Design

When I was at Mom’s last year helping with the  renovation of her master bathroom, we also did a small update to the small, second bathroom. (Mind you: Five children grew up just fine traveling daily through this “tiny” bathroom. Don’t even get me started with today’s 20-something house hunters who can’t LIVE in a house with a bathroom this SMALL.) For the small bathroom freshening , I count basically five steps or decisions — mostly inexpensive ones — that gave the bathroom a fresh and classy sassy new look. The most expensive and only “structural” change — but the one with a very fundamental quality impact — was tiling the floor, eliminating vinyl: Step one: Replace vinyl floor with stock ceramic tile. We pulled out inexpensive 1970s- era vinyl flooring , and replaced it with white octagon-and- dot ceramic floor tile . We got the ceramic at Lowe’s, it only cost about $2.50 per square foot, as I recall. We used medium gray grout so that the shape of the tile would pop. And so begin...

Shampoo and soap niches are sometimes referred to as inserts. Inserts are recessed areas in the shower where the shampoo and soap can be tucked away. A tile bathroom shelf insert is created during the preparation phase for the ceramic tile for the shower, after the backer board is installed. The tile is installed after the fact to cover the niche and create the finished insert that blends in with the overall shower tile pattern .