Calacatta Marble Shower Walls in Sleepy Hollow
About This Project
This Sleepy Hollow custom home received a full bathroom tile installation with large-format Calacatta marble porcelain tile covering the floor, all shower walls, and continuing up the adjacent bathroom walls. The tile is set in a continuous pattern so the veining reads across the full enclosure, which requires planning the tile sequence before a single piece is cut.
Calacatta porcelain in this format requires a white, non-staining thinset to prevent any cement color from bleeding through the light face of the tile. We also back-buttered every piece to ensure full contact coverage, which is required for tiles of this size in a wet application. The shower pan is a custom mud bed, sloped at the standard quarter-inch per foot to the center drain, formed before the tile was set.
What We Did
Formed custom mud bed shower pan; sloped to center drain
Applied waterproofing membrane; used white non-staining thinset throughout
Planned tile sequence to align veining across the full enclosure
Set with leveling clips; grouted in light gray; sealed all perimeter joints
