27 Stunning Shower Tile Design Ideas for 2024
The perfect shower tile will showcase your unique style. Whether you gravitate towards classic and classy subway tile or artisanal handmade tile, our extensive selection offers thousands of possibilities to bring your dream shower design to life. Not sure where to start? Browse these popular shower tile design ideas, or visit your local Tile Shop showroom, we’re always here to help!
Elegant and Luxurious White Marble
This year has seen a major trend in natural stone. Crisp white marble tile with subtle veining is a classic, yet modern look that will infuse your shower with a soothing spa-like ambiance. This beautiful white marble shower, designed by HGTV star Alison Victoria, uses a brick-lay pattern and brass fixtures for a shower design that’s as simple as it is elegant.
Elongated Subway Tile: A Sleek Twist on a Classic
While subway tiles have an enduring appeal, this year, we're reimagining the classic with ultra-sleek, elongated tile like the long, thin Tribeca Oatmeal tile. Elevate your style further with innovative tile layouts such as the striking alternating horizontal and vertical mosaic design showcased here.
Perfectly Imperfect Handmade Tile
Zellige tile is cut, painted and glazed by hand, creating its characteristic perfectly imperfect look. The individualized artisanal process ensures that each tile is unique, resulting in charming variations in color and size. Steeped in tradition, this timeless tile ties in well with contemporary trends.
Beautifully Intricate Mosaic Floor Tile
An intricate mosaic tile with a mix of shapes and materials is as practical as it is beautiful. The small tile pieces have more grout lines, which will provide more traction, preventing slippage. Consider incorporating your chosen floor tile mosaic in a shower niche and backsplash for a design that elegantly combines form and function.
Orderly Horizontal Stacked Subway Tile
This year, we're all about mindfulness and maintaining order through routines. The clean, neat lines created with horizontally stacked subway tile will create a sense of peacefulness and harmony, which will help you begin the day with intention.
Bold and Graphic Geometric Patterns
Graphic and modern, a bold geometric pattern tile will turn your shower wall into an artistic statement. If you like this trend towards simple shapes and precise lines, explore our selection of patterned tiles for a bold geometric masterpiece like the Artisan Tiare shown here.
Authentically Unique Customized Patterns
Hexagon and penny round tile are perfect for creating a customized pattern, like the whimsical polka dot pattern in the marble hex shown here. Experiment with colors and finishes to add playfulness to your shower design and show off your creativity.
Go Big With Large-Format Wall Tile
Large-format tile requires fewer grout lines, which will make your shower wall feel more expansive. Stone or stone-look tiles can create a slab-look, the appearance of one large block of stone. Whether you choose an elegant marble-look tile like the Aqua Blu shown here or a cement-look tile, a large-format tile will elevate your space with a sleek, cohesive design.
Add Texture With Sculptural Tile
Take your shower to new dimensions with sculptural or 3-D tile. Soft waves, geometric shapes and intricate floral designs will add captivating depth and texture to your shower wall. The Blanco Waves tile shown here creates a pattern of light and shadow on this shower wall that looks just as stunning dry as it will under a cascade of water.
Handmade-Look Tile: One-of-a-Kind Beauty
This year, we’re departing from the ordinary and embracing one-of-a-kind character. If you like the perfectly imperfect aesthetic of handmade tiles but want a little more uniformity in size and edges, handmade-look tiles were designed for you. These tiles, with their uneven surfaces and subtle color variation, have the unique appearance of real handmade tiles with a little more predictability.
Naturally Elegant Travertine
Since no two pieces will ever be alike, natural stone is a truly unique tile design. Travertine, a type of limestone formed around mineral streams, is experiencing a resurgence in interior design. With a color spectrum spanning from deep browns to silvery greys and even rich blacks, our selection of travertine tiles offers an array of shapes and styles to craft a shower design that reflects your individuality.
Well-Designed Accents
Elevate your shower design by incorporating essential accessories such as corner shelves, niches, and corner seats. These small yet impactful additions will enhance your shower experience. With our wide selection of shower accessories designed to complement our most popular stone collections, it’s easy to integrate these accents into your shower design.
Authentic Wood-Look Wall Tile
Want a rustic look that will withstand a damp environment? Wood-look ceramic and porcelain tile (like the Vintage Wood Look shown here) capture the intricate woodgrain details, for a realistic cabin-style ambiance that’s durability and easy to maintain.
Beautifully Expressive Tile Focal Point
Create a focal point in your shower using a statement tile and layering pencil trim. This design trend creates an artistic moment surrounding your shower head and is an opportunity to highlight a favorite patterned, mosaic or sculptural tile, that might overwhelm a larger space.
Dramatic Black Tile
Cool and sophisticated, black tile exudes an air of sleek refinement. If your aesthetic leans towards understated elegance rather than ornate decor, this trend is for you. Explore our wide selection of black tiles to find the perfect size and shape to infuse your shower with captivating dark vibes.
Calming Neutrals
Transform your shower into a relaxing, rejuvenating sanctuary with a soothing palette of grey or beige tile. This soft, neutral color scheme will infuse your shower with a calm, serene ambiance. Elevate the visual appeal with the addition of textured accents such as brushed marble or metallic trim.
Soothing Limestone
With soft lines, earthy tones and blended textures, this natural stone creates a unique, rejuvenating design that evokes the opulence of a spa retreat. Limestone tile, available in a spectrum of captivating colors, has natural shade variation for an organic, textured appearance that will turn your shower into a luxurious escape.
Quiet Luxury
This trend towards an understated elegance is as contemporary as it is timeless. Characterized by subdued, but expensive-looking materials and designs—such as marble and marble-look tile with soft veining, delicate metal trim and unadorned mosaics—this style will infuse your shower with a timeless sophistication.
Get the Spa Treatment with Pebble Tile
Create a true spa experience with a beautifully textured pebble mosaic tile. Featuring raised, stone-shaped pieces, this mosaic tile not only prevents slipping by providing extra traction but also offers a delightful foot massage.
Marvelous Waterjet Mosaic Tile
Harnessing the precision of water jets to create thin or curved lines in stone, this stone tile often features metal or mother-of-pearl inlays. These intricately designed tiles will transform your space with captivating beauty and are perfect for a striking focal point or shower niche.
Add a Pop of Color
A bright band of color can go a long way toward elevating your shower design and showcasing your personality. The Annie Selke Artisanal Smokey Blue tile shown here breaks up the white tile with a charming pop of color, like a colorful belt on an all-white outfit.
Mix and Match Shapes
Showers offer a wonderful opportunity for experimenting with shapes. Consider incorporating small tiles like penny rounds or small hexagons alongside larger hexagons, subway tile or large format tile. The dynamic interplay between large, patterned hexagon tile and penny rounds creates an unexpected and charming design in this shower.
Exquisite Mosaic Shower Niche
The shower niche is a practical accessory that provides a unique opportunity to unleash your creativity. A beautifully shaped mosaic tile will elevate your shower design with a moment of unexpected delight. For a cohesive, highly designed look, use the mosaic elsewhere in your bathroom, like on the shower floor or backsplash.
Stylish and Lush All-Over Marble
Marble is the height of elegance and luxury and because no two tiles are ever the same, it is a must for an authentically unique look. We offer marble tile collections in a wide range of sizes, trim options and beautiful mosaics, so you can achieve a highly designed natural look that's sure to impress.
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Biophilic Design
A reaction to the months spent indoors, this trend towards experiencing nature inside is here to stay. Characterized by earth tones, natural materials and nature-inspired patterns, biophilic design will add charm to your shower and deepen your connectivity to the natural world.
Classic and Classy White Subway Tile
An undeniable classic, white subway tile remains a popular style for interior design. If your aesthetic leans towards sleek contemporary, this design option is for you, but you can elevate your shower further with a band of white, neutral, or vibrant colored trim.
Bold and Bright Marble-Look Tile
Porcelain and ceramic marble-look tile has the unique advantage of crafting striking, multi-colored veins you wouldn't find in nature, while still providing the luxurious look of marble. Radiant shades of green, pink, blue and rich ochre, like in the Macchia Vecchia tile shown here, create a vibrant and ultra-luxe aesthetic that's durable and easy to maintain.