What Material Should You Use for a Shower Bench?

 

Wondering what cloth to exercise for your shower bench? Here’s everything you lot demand to know!

When nosotros decided to renovate our master copy bathroom, 99.9% of the argue was because nosotros wanted a nicer shower. A overnice shower is something that never goes out of style, together with there’s cipher improve than having a large, fresh infinite to warm upwards inwards after a long day’s work. For our novel shower nosotros knew nosotros wanted tile, fancy faucets, to a greater extent than infinite and, finally but for sure non least, a shower bench.

When done right, shower benches are actually fashionable together with unique [see all of the amazing Bathroom Design Plans here]. I squall back they add together only a niggling flake of to a greater extent than course of pedagogy together with personality to a overnice bathroom. On the to a greater extent than practical side, shower benches improve domicile security yesteryear helping to preclude falls from happening inwards the shower. They’re also relaxing to exercise after existence on your feet all solar daytime (especially if you’ve been chasing after children similar I am!) together with tin hold upwards a bang-up storage shelf to tuck away your shampoo together with lather bottles.

I’m happy to study that my shower bench dreams are finally coming true! But through the renovation process, some hurdles were harder to larn over than others together with figuring out what cloth to exercise for a shower bench was 1 of them. I couldn’t notice the information I wanted anywhere! I kept wondering: Why are people paying for to a greater extent than expensive materials? Is it only because of how they look? What type of materials receive got to hold upwards maintained? Which is the easiest to install? What are some of the to a greater extent than cost-efficient options? So after some research, I figured out some answers on my ain together with am happy to part what I discovered. Hopefully after reading this, you lot won’t demand to stress nearly figuring out what cloth to exercise for a shower bench inwards the future!

What to consider when picking cloth for your shower bench:

A few things to consider when picking cloth for your shower bench include:

• Budget (as always),


• Esthetics, and


• Maintenance

We had a niggling to a greater extent than wiggle room inwards our budget for a shower bench together with knew nosotros wanted a higher-end expect that was slow to maintain.

When it comes to your shower bench, in that place are a few principal choices (from what my married adult man together with I could figure out!):

1. Granite


2. Marble


3. Tile


4. Teak (wood)


5. Quartz

Granite together with Marble

Granite together with marble are both beautiful, but tin larn expensive too. They are both porous stones, which agency they absorb liquids relatively quickly. If you lot exercise a porous rock for a shower bench, it would demand to hold upwards sealed really good to laid out with. Sealant also wears off over time, peculiarly inwards a heavily used together with wet identify similar a shower, therefore it would demand to hold upwards resealed every straight off together with then. Because granite together with marble are expensive together with high maintenance, nosotros decided they weren’t for us. But both stones tin actually accept the expect of a shower to the side yesteryear side level.

Here’s an lawsuit of a beautiful marbled floating shower bench:

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You tin come across a tiny flake of the beautiful dark granite bench inwards this picture:

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Tile

Continuing the tile from your shower walls onto your shower bench is a bang-up option, together with fairly affordable if you lot receive got a reasonably priced principal tile (like our subway tiles). Whether you lot desire a total shower bench or a floating shower bench, using the same tile that you lot receive got inwards your shower tin hold upwards a bang-up option. However, nosotros liked the sentiment of having some contrast amongst our subway tiles together with decided that nosotros wanted a company color for the transcend our shower bench. Also, tile tin hold upwards difficult to build clean – therefore ultimately nosotros decided that this expect wasn’t for us.

If you lot were doing a tiled shower bench, you lot could create 1 only similar this corner floating shower bench from My Life from Home:

Teak

Teak is some other great, affordable alternative for a shower bench. Teak shower benches are non mutual depression temperature when you lot sit down downwardly on them together with they are much cheaper than stone. Teak holds up very well to excessive moisture, different most other woods, together with unremarkably teak slice of furniture stands upwards really good over time. Using teak, you lot could fifty-fifty opt for a bench that folds upwards or a mobile bench that you lot could pick upwards together with convey into the shower. This is a bang-up alternative for smaller spaces or if you’re looking for something that’s multi-functional. Teak also offers a fairly neutral expect together with tin fit amongst almost whatsoever bath together with shower. The downside of using teak is that watermarks together with stains tin develop. Also, teak tin patina (tarnish) together with discolour over time, therefore you lot would demand to sand together with apply fossil oil treatments every 1 time inwards a while. We wanted something to a greater extent than permanent inwards our shower together with something a niggling to a greater extent than depression maintenance, therefore nosotros decided against a teak shower bench. However, overall it’s relatively depression maintenance together with a bang-up budget-friendly option.

Here’s a bang-up teak shower bench that you lot tin movement inwards together with out of the shower easily!

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Quartz

Then in that place is quartz. Quartz is manufactured, pregnant it’s non a natural stone. But existence man-made, it is also a non-porous material, therefore you lot don’t receive got to apply sealers or worry nearly re-applying later. We liked the sentiment of this low-maintenance feature. Plus, a company surface such equally quartz tin also hold upwards less piece of job therefore cleaning, for example, subway tile. And less cleaning is ever a addition inwards my books!

However, quartz tin larn expensive (as much equally granite sometimes) but equally mentioned, nosotros had a niggling flake of wiggle room inwards our budget. We also did a flake of hunting unopen to together with constitute a cheaper off-cut (leftover) slice from Mercanti Granite together with Quartz! Mercanti Granite together with Quartz is a local store that specializes inwards supplying together with installing granite together with quartz countertops, equally good equally sinks together with faucets. They didn’t seem surprised when nosotros talked to them nearly using an off-cut slab for this projection together with helped us notice the perfect piece. Buying a leftover slice of rock is a bang-up alternative that many people don’t know nearly when they’re shopping around, all the same most local retailers volition offering it – you lot only receive got to ask! The solely downside to this is that sometimes you lot powerfulness non larn just what you lot want, but it’s ever worth checking into.

The Shower Bench We Chose

We also actually liked the expect of quartz. We sentiment that a full, to a greater extent than company color would contrast nicely amongst the subway tile that’s inwards our shower together with on the base of operations of the bench. It was also a flake of a higher-end expect for our bathroom.

Seeing equally quartz was inwards our budget, depression maintenance together with what nosotros wanted esthetically for our space, nosotros decided this was the cloth nosotros were going to use.

We opted for a quartz slab amongst a niggling flake of dark-brown inwards it:

Even though the bath renovation isn’t quite done, I squall back the subway tile shower bench amongst quartz looks amazing! I’m therefore happy amongst it together with can’t hold off to exercise it. I promise sharing this sense is helpful for you lot during your bath renovation process!

If you’re looking to install your tiled bench, here’s a bang-up video for how to frame it inwards properly

What create you lot think?

Are you lot looking to install a shower bench inwards your bathroom? Or create you lot already receive got one? What were some of the challenges you lot faced when picking together with installing one?

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