Large-Format Gray Stone-Look Bathroom with Walk-In Shower
Large-format gray stone-look wall and floor tile in a modern walk-in shower bath
Walkthrough of the install
The curbless shower detail
No curb at the shower entry means the floor has to slope cleanly to a drain while reading as flat to the eye. We used a linear drain running along the back wall of the shower zone and sloped the floor on a single plane toward it — rather than the four-way slope you'd use with a center drain. The eye reads the floor as level even though it drops about an inch over four feet.
Waterproofing the whole wet zone
Curbless showers rely on the waterproofing more than curbed ones do — there's no raised barrier if something fails. We ran liquid-applied waterproofing across the entire shower floor, up the walls to the ceiling, and about three feet out into the main bathroom floor. The membrane continues under the tile well past the shower zone, so even if the slope were ever to be an issue, the water has nowhere to go.
Why large format in a small room
The bathroom isn't big. Large-format tile with minimal grout joints makes the room feel almost twice its actual size — the walls read as single surfaces, the floor as one continuous plane, and the shower doesn't visually separate from the main room. Small-format tile would have carved the space into dozens of tiny zones.
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