Neutral Primary Bathroom Design

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 8 years since we bought this property! This is actually the longest we have ever lived in the same place. While we have no plans of moving anytime soon, (or ever) I have had the itch lately to update a few things. See my recent navy painted cabinets, new pantry door, and updated laundry room. Among all these projects, we decided it was time to tile our primary shower. I’m showing you a little of the shower progress today along with my neutral primary bathroom design plans.

When we built this home we went over budget before we even got started with the building process. Knocking down and removing the old cottage that was here proved to be more expensive than we anticipated. If you have met my husband, then you know going over budget was not an option. It forced me to get a little creative with our plans. I wasn’t willing to compromise on certain things – floor plan, windows, or hard to replace structural things. I talk more about this in my Building Series – Where to Splurge vs. Save.

An easy money saving swap was to switch from tile showers to fiberglass. They are so much less expensive and are easy to replace in the future. We also have horrible hard water, so that made me nervous to install nice tile as well. We have since added a better softener system along with shower head filters that have helped SO much. Now that we have our well water under control, I’m so excited to replace them! We actually started in our kids bathrooms, (I’ll share those soon too) but this week they are starting our primary bathroom.

Here is where we started –

Demo is complete and they extended the wall by about 8 inches to give us more space.

Here’s where we are at currently –

We opted for a ledge instead of a niche in the back which I think will work great. The work should all be finished by the end of next week! You can see my design board and the tile I chose below.

The marble patterned tile will go on the bottom half of the shower up to the ledge. The subway tile will go the rest of the way up with pencil trim separating them.

I can’t wait to see it all come together! I’ll link the exact tile we are using below.

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Sources:

• Iceberg Honed Marble Subway Tile
• Lattice Work Marble
• Iceberg Hexagon
• Bathroom bottles
• Stool
• Rug
• Cabinet
• Light Fixture
• Mirror