Beige Tub Surround with Illuminated Niche in Worth
About This Project
A tub surround in a Worth ranch home that updated the original bathroom with beige square tile set vertically — a simple change in orientation that gives a classic format a more contemporary feel. The matte black rain shower fixture and illuminated recessed niche were the homeowner's choices; our job was to make the tile installation work cleanly around both.
The illuminated niche required coordination with the electrician who roughed in the LED strip before we tiled. The niche itself is built as a mud-bed shelf — a mortar-set recessed box with a slight forward pitch (about 1/8 inch) so water drains out rather than sitting on the shelf. The interior of the niche was tiled with the same beige tile as the surround, cut down to fit the niche dimensions without grout joints landing awkwardly at the edges.
Worth's concrete slab foundation gave us a stable base for the floor tile in this bathroom, which means no uncoupling layer was needed — we set floor tile directly on the slab with standard thinset after checking flatness.
What We Did
- Demo existing surround, install cement board and waterproof membrane
- Build mud-bed niche with forward pitch, coordinate with electrician for LED strip rough-in
- Set beige square tile vertically on walls and inside niche
- Floor tile direct-set on concrete slab, beige sanded grout throughout
Project Details
| Service | Bathroom & Shower Tile |
|---|---|
| Area | Worth |
| Materials | Beige square porcelain tile (vertical set), mud-bed niche, LED-compatible construction |
| Scope | Residential — tub surround, niche, floor tile |
| Timeline | Multi-day install |
