Bathroom renovation in Howell, Michigan

It started with a shower

This Livingston County homeowner reached out to Wright’s Renovations about one specific problem: an outdated shower surround and pan that needed to go. The original scope was a clean swap with new tile walls and a vinyl shower pan.

But once demolition cleared the old surround and revealed the bones of the space, the homeowner started asking bigger questions. What if the tile went all the way to the ceiling? What if the shower floor was tile instead of vinyl? The crew prepped the walls with a GoBoard waterproofing system, and the project’s first scope change swapped vinyl for a fully tiled shower enclosure from floor to ceiling.

Then came the glass. A sliding door was in the original plan, but the homeowner wanted to see the tilework from outside the shower. That led to a frameless glass door with a real stone slab on the curb and niche ledge, replacing what would have been a simple edge with a material that anchors the entire design.

The final addition was the floor. Once the shower was tiled and the glass was measured, the old linoleum looked like it belonged to a different bathroom. So the team pulled it out, prepped the subfloor, and installed wood-look porcelain plank tile across the full bathroom. That warm, grain-patterned tile now runs right up to the shower curb, where the penny round mosaic takes over.

The result is a space where every surface was chosen on purpose. Warm cream porcelain on the shower walls. Mixed-metal penny rounds on the floor and inside the recessed niche. Natural stone on the curb. Wood-grain tile underfoot. Bold blue paint on the walls, offset by a dark espresso vanity with a light quartz countertop. Nothing matches by accident.