What about doing a solid base, and not doing a mosaic tile base? It sounds like you weren't really happy with the mosaics anyways?

We have cultured marble shower bases both in our guest bath and in the MB we're working on right now. The guest bath had two curbs like you're talking about, with glass walls above, the other two sides were cultured marble walls. If you don't want cultured marble (I love it for ease of cleaning, comfort, and it just feels so solid), there are swanstone, cast iron, etc. The beauty of cultured marble is that your fabricator can make it any colour you want, mine matched it to a BM colour chip, and came out to our house with samples until we loved it.

Hi raehelen

Thank you for your suggestions. The shower base is already built, awaiting hot mop. I have to do some sort of tile as the size is custom.

I may just bite the bullet and have the fabricator make the curbs from my slab - $1300 just sounds way too expensive! I'm not paying that much for the entire counter fabrication but there is only one long polished edge.

I'm on the hunt for a simple light gray porcelain mosaic for the shower floor. I really want to be able to scrub it and not worry about etching and staining.

Have you considered using Schluter edging?

Have you considered using Schluter edging?

Is anyone still building tile curbs the old way? Schluter for sure -- about $400 or less.

$1300 is absurd. Check out another granite fabricator. You should be able to find a scrap you like (and they should have a wide variety) that was left over from a countertop "Build."

Give them the dimensions..I like about a 1/4" overlap on both sides. They can polish, bullnose or ogee the edges and shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 hundred bucks....depending on the finish.

$1300.00 is outrageous , ask him how much is he charging you per square foot ? My calacata marble was $90 .00 per sqft . The inside of the curb was done with the porcelain used for the shower walls and the outside was made with calacata marble tile used for the floor . The top of the curb is calacata marble used for my counters and tub deck . I don't know how much exactly I paid for that piece , but I think no more than $ 300.00 . I actually have an extra piece , because the first one was too narrow , so they fabricated a new one .5 " wider at no extra cost . So I am left with the old one . For the shower floor I used a white porcelain for ease of cleaning . I am attaching the picture .

We used remnants out of quartz. We used them on the window sill, the curb on the half wall and the curb going into the shower. I priced them at several places, using a remnant, and the prices ranged from $80 to $120 each piece. The fabricator did ours for no charge since we also got the kitchen counter and island top from them. I have posted a couple of pictures.

The shower curb

We also used some extra from our marble countertops for the curb. Cost was very low! $1300 is not reasonable.

I purchased this curb/threshold in the 6" x72" size. It has a white/creamy undertone that looks more like calacatta, instead of the grey of Carrara. Most tile shops carry thresholds that can be cut be the tile setter.

Here is a link that might be useful: Calacatta threshold