Primary Shower with a Lit Floating Bench in Voorhees, NJ

Rhonda had loved this big primary shower for years, until a stain showed up on the kitchen ceiling below it. When we opened it up, we found the culprit: a leak in one corner that had been quietly soaking the framing for years, long enough to start rotting the floor.

Since the bathroom was getting a refresh anyway, Rhonda decided to go all in. We repaired the floor, rebuilt the shower on a Schluter waterproofing system and wrapped it in Onyx White porcelain slab from the floor to the ceiling. The floor is Buxy Select, a dark gray slab, envelope-cut so it slopes evenly to the drain with no grout lines.

The details are what make it. A floating slab bench hides an LED strip underneath, and a wall-to-wall niche above it has its own strip of light, so with the main lights off the whole shower glows. A brass Grohe three-function system gives her a shower head, a handheld on an adjustable slide bar and body sprays.

The shower itself took about a week. We measure glass only after the slabs are up, so the custom frameless door, with brass hardware to match, went on about two weeks later.