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What natural stone should I put in my bathroom?

I’m completely remodeling my bathroom and luckily have access to very discounted natural stones and tiles like granite, marble, onyx, travertine, mosaics and what not (no glass tiles tho)…. I need to decide by Monday what I want to do since I have a contractor coming in…. It is full bathroom; however, it is relatively small in size…. I already have a nice black vanity area with the outside glass bowl and an absolute black countertop. I was thinking about putting 12x12 absolute black tiles on a floor but have no idea how to do shower stall? What would like nice with black granite? I was thinking about some onyx mosaic on the shower floor and maybe honey onyx on the walls??? Also which paint would look nice??? I am looking for something modern, sharp and simple in form....
Please help….

Granite and marble stain terribly with water (unless you continually apply protective coating). Black will show water spots and litter/dust like grazy. I once put in a black sink with black kitchen appliance and regretted the sink from the second day.

I would not use anything else all black if your floor will be black tile. Black tile looks different from black natural stone. Only use the black as an accent in the bathroom wall and shower floors.

If you are picking tile for the floor go bigger than 12x12, and lay it diagonally: makes the room seem bigger and any border variations in outlines will not be noticable. I have done several homes now with diagonal layout and everyone just loves it

Mosaic is in style now but I would use it as an accent so it does not get dated too soon.

Tavertine is always a classic and not too expensive and comes with trim and various patterns of mosaic strips.It stands well to abuse of water. scale, and soap.It also needs to be sealed but it does not get stained like marble and granite.

I loved a look I saw in a bathroom where the shower had
part of the surrounding wall done in several shades of narrow mosaic (small rectangle cut tavertine) like rain, darker at the top fading to lighter (makes room look bigge since eye is atracted tohigher pattern)

You could combine black and honey (honey is my favorite "neutral" color for today)in diffrent shades of black/grey/honey mosaic tile to get the rain effect, then finish the bottom with a honey colored tavertine.

for the shower floor use a small pattern tile same as floor.

Tavertine and slate look great together. check if you have access to natural slate tile which gose with black and honey. With slate, as with any other surface in a BA, you should check for slipping on wet surface and how rough the surface is for bare feet. Tavertine floors, and slate shower would look great. Slate on the BA floor may be too rough.

In a small BA with a black vanity, I would not put too much more dark shades in there. else it looks too dark.

I did a bath in dark chocolate/honey and white - everyone loved it. if you can use white in your BA - that is a good contrast color. For a sleek modern look you should not have too many colors else it's 50's or 70's LSD.

The fewer dominant colors you put into the long term items (tile) you can change the look be changing accessories.
Black-honey-(off)white is very classic and neutral, you can add any colors to that.

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