The shower sits in the corner of the room with an angled front, which leaves more open floor than a square stall would. The curb follows that angle with a white cap mitered at each corner, so there are no exposed cut edges where you step in and out. The mitered joints are tight enough that the cap reads as one continuous piece.
On the walls, white subway tile is set in herringbone. It's a slow pattern to install: every course ends in angled cuts, and the zigzag has to stay centered on the niche and meet cleanly where the two walls come together. The floor is black penny round sloped to a square drain. Penny tile takes the slope easily, and its dense grout lines give good footing.
Outside the shower, the bathroom floor is a black-and-white tile laid as a pinwheel of triangles, which echoes the black shower floor and the white walls. These photos were taken mid-job, with the tile set and grouted and the plumbing trim, glass and fixtures still to go in, so they show the tile layout and the cuts clearly before anything covers them up.
What we did
- Built an angled corner shower with a mitered white curb cap
- Laid black penny-round mosaic on the shower floor around a square drain
- Set white subway tile in a herringbone pattern on the shower walls
- Recessed a tiled niche in the shower wall
- Tiled the bathroom floor in a black-and-white geometric pattern
Photos from this job
3 photos, starting with the work in progress. Tap any photo to see it full size.
While we were building it
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