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| Hi, folks--I've moved into a new home and one of my bathrooms has a shower unit. I've painted the bathroom Ben Moore's Honolulu Blue (long story, but I like it.
A few questions: --Should I tile above the shower unit at all? The walls and ceiling are blueboard, not cement board. --If I tile above the unit, should I also tile the ceiling? --If I tile, I am considering a faux carrara marble, like Florida Tile's Galland high definition porcelain. --If I don't do the high def porcelain, I might spring for a gray tumbled marble. Would this be too hard to keep clean and sealed? Any other suggestions re: materials and colors are more than welcome. I've posted a picture of the shower. Thanks in advance for your help! |
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| It's probably not essential that you tile above the module, but I like the idea of the marble-like porcelain. It would be sleek like the shower wall, would add a little interest, and would prevent problems you might have eventually with paint peeling. (This happened to me in a previous house, and I always wished the previous owners had just taken the tile all the way to the ceiling.) I don't think the tumbled marble would really fit the look of the shining shower walls. It would also need to be sealed, so you'd have more upkeep. |
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- Posted by sailormass (My Page) on Sat, Aug 4, 12 at 19:39
| Thanks, kmcg. I'm almost certainly going with the high-def porcelain faux carrara. Do you think I should tile the ceiling, too? Thx. |
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- Posted by hollysprings (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 8:22
| If you want tile, get rid of the shower surround and tile the shower walls too. They two do NOT combine stylistically at all. Or have the surround replaced with a taller surround. |
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- Posted by sailormass (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 9:32
| HI, Hollysprings--Unfortunately, I don't have the budget to nix the surround and tile the walls--I'm already having a larger tiled shower put in the master bath. Otherwise, I'd agree completely. Thx. |
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| I agree with holly and wouldn't bother with the expense of adding tile above a fiberglass shower insert. |
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- Posted by pricklypearcactus (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 10:40
| I'm sorry, but I agree with hollysprings and terriks that stylistically, tile above a fiberglass shower insert does not seem to work. What you have now looks very clean and new. |
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- Posted by sailormass (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 13:54
| Excellent--and thanks pricklypearcactus--I'm leaning away from tiling it right now. If the paint starts to peel, I'll revisit the question. |
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