Luxury Shower Tile Design Ideas

Featured Image: Calacatta Umber Honed 12 x 24 Marble Bathroom Shower Wall and Floor Tile & CS-Calacatta Gris 4 Inch Hex Shower Marble Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Luxury is defined differently for everyone depending on style preference. Though particular styles, patterns, materials, and colors may change over the years, some features of luxury will always remain. When you are designing the bathroom of your dreams, luxury might be an avenue you want to consider. Having a luxurious bathroom provides a peaceful space to relax and rejuvenate, especially when you have invested in creating a luxury shower.

What is Luxury?

Truly defined, luxury is “the state of great comfort and extravagant living.” To produce such luxury in a room, there needs to be an overall sense of ease to the finished space and that it was created using quality products. While also keeping comfort in mind, a design with the most astute attention to detail should coordinate between all elements in the space to create a calming and cohesive flow.

In a traditional sense, a luxurious design would include soft colors, such as versions of white, beige, grey, gold, and silver. These colors not only exude luxury but evoke comfort and calmness. To integrate other colors and details with a softer selection, an accent wall or focal area gives way to design creativity and personalization if you so choose.

For your luxury shower ideas, incorporating soft colors is easy with the use of natural stone and tile products. For centuries, natural stone has been the best material to exhibit luxury as it expresses wealth and sophistication, making it an admired material to increase the grandeur within a home. Other products, like quartz, and porcelain tile are also ideal options to create your luxury bathroom shower.

Luxury Spa in Your Home

Nothing about your walk-in shower needs to be basic or drab. After all, you want this space to be invigorating for your morning routine, and then relaxing in the evening as your wind down.  Designing a shower with this in mind will help to create a space that you can enjoy for many years to come. To maximize luxury in your bathroom shower, a steam shower will make your home feel like a spa. Steam showers have many benefits including:

• Aid in sleep
• Help you destress
• Reduce arthritic-associated pain
• Aid in alleviating respiratory burdens
• Improve heart health and circulation
• Remove toxins from within your body
• Promote muscle healing from exercise
• Promote positive skin health by clearing pores

Image: Themar Venato Gold Matte 12 x 24 Porcelain Shower Wall and 2-3/8 Matte Hex Mesh Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Porcelain is a wonderful product to use within a steam shower. Not only is it available in many colors, shapes and sizes to create your ideal luxury feel, but its durability can withstand the heat created within a steam shower. Porcelain is a manufactured product and is designed with many beneficial features. Three wonderful examples of these design options are porcelain’s ability to emulate the look of concrete, natural stone, and commercial textiles. Our Cemento Cassero Series comes in five colors, all crafted to look like concrete. This appearance creates a clean, modern look that can embrace modern luxury with its soft coloration and streamlined details.

If you desire natural stone but want a more versatile and lower-maintenance option, the Themar Series might be for you. The digital print technology used on this porcelain tile creates almost identical characteristics to some of the most sought-after stones, like marble. Made in five options that range in color, pattern, and veining, Themar tile will take your luxury steam shower up a notch.

Image: Themar Bianco Lasa Polished 12 x 24 Porcelain Shower Wall Tile, Reside Black 1×12 Straight Stack Porcelain & CS-Bianco Venatino Honed Penny Round Marble Niche Tile from Arizona Tile

Inspired by rich textures of commercial textiles, the Reside Series displays a clean look and offers a simplistic, modern charm. Available in four neutral colors, from light to dark, Reside gives you a cozy yet modern and elegant feel in any space. Its neutrality allows for versatile pairings with your favorite luxury colors and detailing.

Natural Stone

What may appeal to you most is the use of natural stone in your luxury walk-in shower. Being wrapped in true marble may be just what it takes to decompress and relax. After all, marble has been truly admired for centuries. Calacatta Umber and Bianco Venatino are both stunning, crisp, and delicate in look, and express luxury in its purest form.

Image: Bianco Venatino Honed 4 x 16 Marble Shower Wall & CS-Bianco Venatino 1 x 4 Honed Herringbone Mesh Shower Floor Tile from Arizona Tile

Though natural stone comes with a little more care and maintenance, as long as you give it the TLC it needs, marble will delight you for a lifetime. Calacatta Umber has a clean, white background with darker veins. Because of the process, this stone goes through during natural formation, it has rich, vibrant gold tones that put an emphasis on luxury. With similarities to Calacatta Umber, Bianco Venatino is a crisp white marble with pencil-thin grey veining. The pure whiteness of these marble stones provides a feel of luxury and the ability to easily pair with most décor. To truly enhance your walk-in shower experience, create an expansive luxury shower with marble, add multiple shower heads, a bench, and some recessed shelving, and in no time you will have created a space you don’t want to leave.

Where Nature and Technology Meet

Perhaps you have designed all the elements for your new shower and you have decided to use material with a stone-look, but are unsure if natural stone is the right tile for your needs. Bertoli is white quartz which is a blend of nature and technology and is a great option for your shower walls. Quartz consists of 94% quartz, one of the hardest minerals in nature, then is blended together with advanced polymers. You end up with a high-performance surface that is ultra-durable and a design to mimic natural stone; a perfect blend of aesthetics and structure.

Texture is another element that blends nature and technology. Most things in nature have some texture or physical differences. If you like the dimension that comes along with a 3D appearance and want to create a free-flowing visual, 3D ceramic wall tile will delight the senses. In a combination of ten different colors and patterns, you will add movement and detail to your walk-in shower.

Guidance

As always, if you can, stop into an Arizona Tile store or slab yard for help choosing the stone or tile that will be right for you and your project. If you can’t make it in, try our Just Imagine – Tile Visualizer to see how your selection will look in a space before committing. Please reach out to the helpful and knowledgeable staff at Arizona Tile to best assist you.