How To Install Carrara Marble Tile

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Taking you through our entire procedure for edifice our chief bathroom, installing marble tile and trim, completing our finish work and more.

We've been working hard on finishing our master bath! If you've ever lived with one bath for 6 people, y'all know why this space became a priority. I want to show you our complete building process from edifice the walls, installing marble tile and trim, terminate work and more than. I can't wait to show y'all the results then far, even if we are non entirely done yet. This space is what my marble dreams are made of.

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See the marble installation in action! Hope y'all bask my video for this post.

If yous didn't catch my web log mail sharing the design plans for this space, y'all'll want to know that marble and gold is the theme. I feel similar that is such a timeless philharmonic, and one I chose because I don't programme on redoing this bathroom for many years – if e'er!

MARBLE SOURCES

We got all our marble tile and trim from Floor & Decor. If you've never been to a Floor & Decor storefront, you lot'll be absolutely amazed by the huge selection of flooring and tile they take in stock. Information technology's the best I've always seen and the prices are incredible. They as well have costless design services if you lot demand a lilliputian extra help pulling a room together.

And if you love marble, similar I practice, yous are going to get a really adept thought of the many Carrara marble options they accept just by seeing what we have put in our bathroom space. I will link to each slice equally I talk nigh them in this mail service.

BEFORE

Permit'southward first take a look at this room before our piece of work, and when it was just sheetrock and a big mess.

It'due south really non a huge bath infinite, measuring at merely 12 feet by 5 feet. Merely being on the smaller side for a main bath, it allowed us to do tile piece of work that we might not normally be able to afford to do if it were much bigger. And so don't lament your small spaces.

They can often allow you to practice more than creative designs because y'all can get away with using less product and still make a unique argument.

Half WALL

One of the showtime things we did was build up a half wall to frame in the shower a bit more than.

I really loved the idea of a tiled one-half wall, so Mr. TIDBITS framed it upward with wood studs and then added the cement board which would provide the surface for the tile. On the inside of that half wall, we added a footling shelf cubby, which was really easy to practice with this mold we picked up from Floor & Decor.

SHOWER PAN

Adjacent up, my husband built our ain custom shower pan or shower flooring.

This involved laying down a super thick plastic shower liner, and a sandy mortar mixture.

He was sure to slope it slightly so the water would drain accordingly.

Bath Flooring

We decided to begin laying the bathroom flooring tile down get-go. I selected a 3 x 9 piece of honed Carrara marble for the flooring.

Kevin kickoff laid down the thin fix in small sections, and began installing the tile in an angled herringbone pattern – much to his chagrin. This pattern is certainly trickier than others, but I have only e'er loved the look of marble installed in a herringbone pattern. This might be the last time I talk him into this, just it was so worth information technology. As he made progress, I knew it was going to look amazing. Nosotros used tiny spacers so we would have minimal grout lines throughout the tile.

WALLS

One time the flooring was dry out enough to walk on, he began installing the tile for the wall.

I opted for a slice of honed Carrara marble tile measuring vi 10 12 for the walls. Nosotros installed it in a much simpler staggered brick style. We went about half way up all the walls with this tile, and all the way up in the shower surface area.

Information technology went pretty quickly, and the trickiest part was cutting around outlets and plumbing and fitting the tile for the inside shower cubby.

SHOWER Flooring

One time all that was done, the shower pan was dry plenty to install the tile. I picked out a meshed together marble hexagon blueprint for the shower flooring.

Kevin fabricated certain he measured and cutting the pieces to fit the spot before he began laying them down. And then he would fold them over, add the thinset in minor sections, and advisedly lay down the meshed pieces. They can exist tricky to work with (or so he says) and a little messy where in that location are and then many crevasses for the thin prepare to squeeze out of. He did end up having to chisel some of the dried thin fix out of the cracks earlier he could grout.

Arch

Part of our process likewise included cutting into our sheetrock to add together a lilliputian congenital in biconvex shelf to the space, which will exist great for storing pretty bathroom supplies.

BASEBOARD

One of my favorite finishing touches in this room is the marble baseboard.

Nosotros didn't need a ton of it, but it looks and then incredible. It's super easy to install with some silicone gum, and pressed in identify.

BEADBOARD

At this point, we besides installed some beadboard to the remaining walls above the marble tile, and added some nice mesomorphic window trim.

CHAIR Runway

With the beadboard in, we could install this beautiful piece of marble chair track to finish off the border of the marble wall throughout the bathroom. Just similar the baseboard, you just glue and stick.

SEALER

And so, as recommended past a tile worker at Floor & Decor, we used a stone sealer to seal the porous marble stone before we grouted the tile. Stone sealer is very fum-y, and then if yous use it, be sure to open all the windows!

GROUT

With the sealer completely cured, nosotros could then grout all the tile. It took my married man most of a day! I opted for a vivid white grout.

In one case the grout was dry out, I scrubbed it downward actually well earlier we applied our final coat of stone sealer to all the tile.

MARBLE TILE RESULTS

The results for all this difficult piece of work is absolutely beautiful! We have a lovely tiled bathroom, all ready for a vanity, fixtures, and decor.

We ordered a large custom cut mirror, and ended up installing some of the aforementioned chair rail tile effectually the mirror to frame it. I dearest how it looks so seamless with the remainder of the room.

We painted the beadboard in the color Aria by PPG paints. I've always wanted to try this white and I think information technology is the absolute all-time color to go with marble. It is a white that feels both warm and cool and really compliments the grays in the carrara marble. We painted the beadboard and trim however color.

The baseboard looked so expert after it was grouted, and makes for such a lovely finish.

We opted not to wrap information technology in the shower since at that place volition be a suspension with the glass door anyway.

The half wall turned out great, and I recollect it will be the perfect place to install a lovely gold towel rod.

Here is a expect at the recessed arched shelving. I tin't wait to decorate it!

He concluded up sheetrocking effectually it and tiled within of it with the same tile as nosotros used for the shower floor.

Here is a look at the shower cubby and demote.

We used a solid slab of marble remnant that we had leftover from other projects to comprehend the bench. He just finished grinding downwardly the edge and we volition vitrify out any marks left from that procedure.

We've installed the gold shower faucet already, and I love how it looks with the marble.

We besides added a marble lather shelf, also from Floor & Decor.

We actually forgot to put this in when he was doing the walls, so we had to flake out a couple of pieces and put them back in. But information technology all the same turned out slap-up.

I love the results of the herringbone pattern, and how information technology adds some nice angles to an otherwise boxy room.

marble installing in herringbone pattern

I hope you enjoyed watching our process and seeing the results from our DIY marble installation project. What practice you think about this much marble for one space? Besides much? Too little?

I only cannot wait to starting time pulling it all together and I'll be sure to be dorsum to share the concluding reveal with you.

If you lot would like to come across a more than stride by pace tutorial for installing marble tile, you tin can read all almost how nosotros did that in another bathroom in our old firm.

Thank you for reading!