Ideas for a Luxurious Modern Shower

Image: Calacatta Gold Honed 4 x 16 Marble Walk-in Shower Tile from Arizona Tile

Modern and luxury can be two separate styles when creating your heavenly shower space, or they can be entwined for a modern design with luxurious products. Modern design uses neutral color palettes, offers clean lines, and focuses on minimalism, natural materials, and natural light. A luxurious design has similar elements but may boast bolder finishes emphasizing texture and high attention to detail.

Allowing modern and luxurious elements to flow together when designing a new bathroom can be easily accomplished with the proper attention to specific details—largely in materials used. Natural stone products like marble, quarzite and granite emphasize an enriched appearance that will add great aesthetic, functionality, and comfort to a home. A modern luxury shower designed per your personal style preferences will delight you day in and day out and surround you with natural beauty that offers peace and comfort.

Natural Stone to Admire

To sum up luxury in natural stone, all fingers would point to marble. Marble has been a sign of luxury for thousands of years. Once it became easier to access, it became more common to find in homes, but only homes of the wealthy. Today, it still holds that appeal of sophistication and elegance. There are many uses for marble that would look fantastic in your luxury shower including the shower walls and floors, as well as the coordinating bathroom walls and vanity countertop.

Image: Montclair White Satin Marble Slab Walk-in Shower with Bench from Arizona Tile

Quartzite is another esteemed natural stone, and can sometimes look very similar to marble, but is naturally harder and more durable. With a broader selection of variations, quartzite provides a variety of color options for any luxurious-looking shower. Because of its durability, applications of quartzite throughout the home are more plentiful, especially if you want the natural stone in your home to match throughout the kitchen and bathrooms.

Modern. Luxury. Meet Modern Luxury

Modern design does focus more on minimalism but that doesn’t take away from elegance. Adding simple features of color can truly solidify a particular style. When trying to achieve a feeling of modern luxury, veins of gold in a natural stone product can do just that. Calacatta Gold features taupe/gold veins over a creamy white background. Accenting in gold décor and finishes complement the natural colors within this slab to create a space that is full of glamour and luxury. Gold has always been a color of distinction symbolizing wealth, prosperity, success, and affluence; therefore, furnishing in a modern luxury style by including some gold tones, only seems appropriate. However, accenting with gold is not necessary to complete this style. Haisa Blue Honed is a great example of a more neutral color base, with cool grey tones, but still offers bold veining that is also a present feature within a “typical” modern luxury style.

Image: Haisa Blue Honed12 x 24 Marble Tile Walk-In Shower with Bench from Arizona Tile

Aside from color options, there are other ways to also add modes of luxury, such as incorporating a steam shower. A beautiful, walk-in shower of natural stone with recessed shelves and a solid stone bench is a wonderful area to step into, but add a steam feature to the equation and you have amplified a modern luxury shower that not only looks beautiful but aids in positive health—from mental to physical.

Image: Blizzard Granite Slab Bathroom Vanity from Arizona Tile

Granite is a nice option for a steam shower because of its durability and heat-resistance. Viscount White and Blizzard both cater to modern luxury shower designs with their classic black-and-white colors and bold veining. Being natural stone slabs, either one of these granite styles would make a wonderful vanity countertop to match the shower and give cohesion throughout the space. For more steam shower ideas, take a look at one of our other blogs: Choosing The Best Tile For Your Steam Shower.

Featured Image: Bianco Venatino Marble Walk-in Shower Slabs from Arizona Tile

Steam showers nurture your body with warm moisture; however, some people may choose the health benefits offered through dry heat which would be achieved in a sauna. Steam showers provide more humidity than heat while saunas provide more heat and less humidity. Given the high temperature ranges in a sauna, wood has been the primary material used because it doesn’t conduct heat and won’t become hot to the touch like stone. But… that doesn’t mean beautiful, natural stone can’t guide you right into your personal sauna.

Bianco Venatino marble is a classic stone that accentuates modern luxury with its crisp, white background and pencil-thin, grey veining. It provides the bright, clean, fresh look that speaks to this style. This stunning marble can be used on interior walls, shower walls, and as a vanity, while Bianco Venatino tile can be used on interior floors, including in showers, so there is no need to compromise on design.

Inspiration

When you need inspiration or simply more knowledge for your design plans, we have many articles that can help in our blog section. While working on your modern luxury bathroom plans, reading 5 Tips For A Luxury Bathroom Design may help answer some of your questions as well.

When in doubt, reach out! Feel free to send us a message. Then, when you can, stop into an Arizona Tile store or slab yard for help with your questions, concerns, and to view our products in person. Our knowledgeable staff can help you choose the stone and tile that will be right for you and your project.

Once you have narrowed down some of your tile and stone selections, try our Just Imagine – Tile Visualizer to see how your modern luxury shower ideas come to virtual fruition and have fun with modern luxury design!