I am open to porcelain tile that looks like marble but have yet to find it in the hexagon. If anyone knows of any on lines sites that have it, please let me know.

I'm like you and couldn't take it in the kitchen. We used all over the "lady bathroom" in our house. We used honed and it is still looking good a couple years later, well except for the chip at the sink. That was my fault for packing too many things in the medicine cabinet and having them fall out.

1929spanish how are you liking the hex? I'd like to do 3" on floor and 1" in shower. Would like to see if I could finding in porcelain but no luck yet

I have marble countertops in our bathrooms and they've held up really well after 4 years and we are not careful people at all. I don't have marble on the floor or in the shower. Actually I do have a marble slab as a seat in the shower and it's fine. I think shower walls would be fine. It's the floor that I would be the most concerned about. Can you find a corresponding porcelain tile just for the floor?

You can kind of see the shower here:

This post was edited by pps7 on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 19:34

I had a honed marble slab countertop in my old bathroom. It survived 3 little kids and two very careless adults. :)

I've definitely heard some cautions about the shower floor, but everywhere else seems fine if you seal it.

Crossville Virtue is a porcelain with a marble look that comes in hex, and maybe one or two other mosaics.

I have Crema marfil marble on the floor of my bathroom....then used a look alike tile for the counter...I liked the finished look of the tile edging.

Everything is holding up fine....but the shine has worn off the marble flooring.

I love the hex. We have 1" tile in one bathroom, the 1" marble in this bathroom and 6" arto red clay tile in the kitchen.

If it's the same material, I would be inclined to keep the same size throughout.

Here's a better picture of the floor.

We'll I'd stick with the hex on the bathroom floor and try to find something else for the shower. What that material will be who knows.

Just my opinion but, you should take into account your water hardness and how you clean water spots before picking marble. One place I lived had very hard water and the chemicals used to clean up in a shower would have harmed the marble. It was fine for a floor though.

Schicksal brings up a good point. We have a water softener and made sure it was installed before starting the bathroom.