Open Primary Bathroom with a Statuario Principe Shower in Marlton, NJ

Mindy’s family had stopped using their primary shower. It appeared to be leaking, so for a couple of years after they bought the house, it sat unused. Meanwhile a big wall-to-wall soaking tub, set on a platform under the arched window, took up 30 to 40 square feet of the room, and nobody used that either.

They came to our showroom, and we designed the room there. The big question was how to use the space the tub gave back: a larger shower with a small makeup counter, or a more modest shower with a much larger makeup counter and lots of storage. We priced both options. They chose storage, and the new shower still came out bigger than the old one.

When the old shower came out, the cause of the leak was clear. The vinyl liner under the tile had been punctured, so water was getting past it. We rebuilt the shower properly on a Schluter waterproofing system and wrapped it in our Statuario Principe slab, a bright white porcelain with soft gray veining, over Concrete Grey slab floors that carry through the room. Frameless glass keeps it all open.

The rest of the room is about storage, because in a bathroom you can’t really have too much. There’s a giant makeup counter, topped in a quartz Mindy picked on the same visit to our Philadelphia slab warehouse and showroom, custom cabinetry everywhere, and a lazy Susan in the corner, something you’d usually find in a kitchen. Mindy wasn’t sure about it at first, but it turned out to be the perfect home for hair dryers, straighteners and everything else that used to clutter the counter.