Room of the Day: Handsome Take on Shabby Chic in the Bath (5 photos)

AFTER: “He is really tall so we needed to place the shower here … also, a door would have felt too tight, so we used one panel of glass and made it a walk-in,” Gill says. Don’t let the photo deceive you — there’s plenty of room for the husband to walk in without ducking. A shower bench tucks in under the slanted roofline. On the right, a dormer provides enough head room for the toilet (no pun intended).

Hexagonal black tile on the shower floor presents a strong contrast to the white subway tile on the walls. Charcoal gray grout marries the black and white. “We also chose gray to make the subway tile pop, otherwise there would be too much white,” Gill says.

The bathroom floor is ceramic but is digitally printed to resemble hardwood. “Since we wanted the wood tile to look as much like real wood as possible, we did a random joint pattern with the narrowest grout line possible with a true color match,” Gill says. “So while we were looking for high contrast in the subway tile and grout, we wanted as little contrast in the wood-look tile as possible.”

Keeping within a budget was also a concern. Though the homeowners wanted marble, using a lot of it was not in their budget, so they used it in a bullnose detail around the shower. Gill also chose porcelain hexagonal tile for the shower floor rather than the more expensive stone she often uses.

Curtains: Ikea; shower faucet: Moen Brantford; subway tile and marble bullnose tile: The Tile Shop; porcelain hex tile: South Cypress; floor tile: Marazzi Montagna in Saddle, Home Depot

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