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Height of Trim Accent tile line in Shower?

15 years ago

Handyman is setting the tile in the walk in shower. In order to not have a cut tile at the top the border accent tile can go higher. (It's a narrower border ..about 2 inches tall listello) It would be just at the bottom of the shower head.

The lower line would be 6 inches below that. My ideas are that with it being narrow trim it might look better higher up. but I wonder about it being so close to the shower head . it wont be under the shower head, but just beneath that.

If it was lower then my concern is that it would visually "break up" the shower wall.

placing it higher seems like it would give height to the shower.

lower would be more visible at eye level

which should I do?

What is the Height of you Tile Accent Line in the Shower?

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15 years ago
Draw a picture with it both ways. I didn't do a line I did a feature wall, but it wasn't until I actually drew it out to scale on graph paper that I had a good visual of what it was going to look like.
nhb22
15 years ago
We have 8 x 12 accent tiles, with more accent tiles inset into the larger tile in our shower. They run lengthwise and are set right below the shower head, and go every other one, all the way around the stall. Our shower head is hung high. Although the tiles are just above eye height, I sometimes think they would look better if they were above the shower head.

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