Tile Niche Examples

With sweeping regulations regarding everything from soap dishes to toilets and shower valves, it is hard to beat a simple tile inset niche for soap, shampoo, conditioner, tooth brush, razor or whatever shower accessories you require.



The neat part is these can be customized to reflect the different materials and design elements you may have in your bathroom. If you have Granite for a vanity top, you might picture shelves in a niche made from the same material, even as corner shelves.



In this example from several years ago you can see how we incorporated the glass pencil liner in the middle of this shelf and the 4x4 glass to highlight the insets.Surface cap was used top and bottom of the shelf and it really took some time to build out but it looks clean, useful, and attractive.

  In this example we have a simple and really boring niche

that the homeowner had us install in a rarely used shower.



The cost of installation between these two would be understandable. Costs for built in niches run about $75 as a minimum for something like this simple niche and up.The cost of a niche begins in the framing of the shower and there are a number of different types.

There are prefabricated boxes that we can install into the Hardie Backer that come in various sizes and shapes and there are hand built niches like all these examples.

   In this example you see a molded ceramic corner shelf that we are still installing today. In my view these are inadequate for most well used showers but sufficient for moderate use.



A well used shower requires more shelf space for all the accoutrements needed in my view than is depicted here.



These units like soap dishes are generally installed during the grouting stage.

Here we used design element tiles to enhance the niche we installed here just a bit. This shower received a frameless glass enclosure upon completion.



When we demolished the old shower we had to remove the the back wall including the exterior siding. We were walking through the shower into the back yard. Water damage and insects destroyed the 2x4 plate stock and studs.



We ended up re-framing, the space, added new insulation, vapor barrier, exterior insulation and exterior siding and trim.



The finished product worked out nice.

   In this example I installed shelves in this niche that were made from a man made Granite type material. I had some left over from another project that was too small for anything significant and too big to just throw away. So, I set it in a corner of my garage till I could find a good use for it.



This shelving material matched the dark Marble Checkerboard design element along the top and

really enhanced the appearance of this niche.



When ever you go about building a shower and have an idea you might want a niche you might ask the installer or contractor if they might have a piece of Granite or other material you could use for shelving that would work into your general design. Granite shops always have pieces, sink cut outs, misfit parts that you may be able to obtain at a significant discount or possibly for free if you don't need a lot and someone wants to get rid of stuff laying around.



These are just a few examples of niches we have done. Many were very sophisticated and took hours build and fit with exotic materials but I don't always remember to carry a camera

when they are complete. These are but a few that we did catch.   

Tile Niche Examples

With sweeping regulations regarding everything from soap dishes to toilets and shower valves, it is hard to beat a simple tile inset niche for soap, shampoo, conditioner, tooth brush, razor or whatever shower accessories you require.



The neat part is these can be customized to reflect the different materials and design elements you may have in your bathroom. If you have Granite for a vanity top, you might picture shelves in a niche made from the same material, even as corner shelves.



In this example from several years ago you can see how we incorporated the glass pencil liner in the middle of this shelf and the 4x4 glass to highlight the insets.Surface cap was used top and bottom of the shelf and it really took some time to build out but it looks clean, useful, and attractive.

  In this example we have a simple and really boring niche

that the homeowner had us install in a rarely used shower.



The cost of installation between these two would be understandable. Costs for built in niches run about $75 as a minimum for something like this simple niche and up.The cost of a niche begins in the framing of the shower and there are a number of different types.

There are prefabricated boxes that we can install into the Hardie Backer that come in various sizes and shapes and there are hand built niches like all these examples.

   In this example you see a molded ceramic corner shelf that we are still installing today. In my view these are inadequate for most well used showers but sufficient for moderate use.



A well used shower requires more shelf space for all the accoutrements needed in my view than is depicted here.



These units like soap dishes are generally installed during the grouting stage.

Here we used design element tiles to enhance the niche we installed here just a bit. This shower received a frameless glass enclosure upon completion.



When we demolished the old shower we had to remove the the back wall including the exterior siding. We were walking through the shower into the back yard. Water damage and insects destroyed the 2x4 plate stock and studs.



We ended up re-framing, the space, added new insulation, vapor barrier, exterior insulation and exterior siding and trim.



The finished product worked out nice.

   In this example I installed shelves in this niche that were made from a man made Granite type material. I had some left over from another project that was too small for anything significant and too big to just throw away. So, I set it in a corner of my garage till I could find a good use for it.



This shelving material matched the dark Marble Checkerboard design element along the top and

really enhanced the appearance of this niche.



When ever you go about building a shower and have an idea you might want a niche you might ask the installer or contractor if they might have a piece of Granite or other material you could use for shelving that would work into your general design. Granite shops always have pieces, sink cut outs, misfit parts that you may be able to obtain at a significant discount or possibly for free if you don't need a lot and someone wants to get rid of stuff laying around.



These are just a few examples of niches we have done. Many were very sophisticated and took hours build and fit with exotic materials but I don't always remember to carry a camera

when they are complete. These are but a few that we did catch.   

Según nadie, por ende para todos, se acerca el fin. No hay que ser necios y hacer todo lo que no hicimos hasta ahora. El escritor de este blog tiene varias cosas pendientes que no planea resolver este año. Señal de inmadurez y falsa rebeldía. Que importa. 

A partir de hoy, hasta fin de mes, será un blogger-boy. Publicará, posteará, todos los día aunque no haya nada que decir, que criticar, que comentar. Bienvenidos a la era de la viralidad y crisis de contenido. Aquí lo nerd y lo inteligente son sinónimos pero no consecuentes. Todo fluye, se mueve. Salvo yo, que me identificaba con los indios sedentarios cuando niño.

Según nadie, por ende para todos, se acerca el fin. No hay que ser necios y hacer todo lo que no hicimos hasta ahora. El escritor de este blog tiene varias cosas pendientes que no planea resolver este año. Señal de inmadurez y falsa rebeldía. Que importa. 

A partir de hoy, hasta fin de mes, será un blogger-boy. Publicará, posteará, todos los día aunque no haya nada que decir, que criticar, que comentar. Bienvenidos a la era de la viralidad y crisis de contenido. Aquí lo nerd y lo inteligente son sinónimos pero no consecuentes. Todo fluye, se mueve. Salvo yo, que me identificaba con los indios sedentarios cuando niño.

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3D model by lek

model structure of molecule fullerenes

Acontecimientos que acontecen. (Texto de mas34)

Los portugueses no dicen que las cosas pasan, sino que acontecen. Que es una forma mucho más elegante de expresar que todos estamos en lo mismo o que todos sentimos lo mismo. El hombre como un ser socialque decía Platón, ya saben.

No sé porqué, cuando ocurre, ocurre en Juernes. Esas noches que sales con los amigos, sin más pretensión que tomar unas cañas, cenar algo y… bueno, ya que estás en Lavapiés y la felicidad comienza a hacerse incontrolable y te sientes tan a gusto con todos compras un par de Mahous por la calle y vas a buscar un bar en el que tomar alguna otra.

Si ocurre es en una de esas noches: conoces a una chica y, por algún tipo de coincidencias imposibles de controlar –alineación de planetas, elección de camisetas con colores acertados, sonrisa en los ojos y alcohol en la palabra-, consigues acercarte más a ella. Al final, resulta que la noche se da bastante bien –en su casa, en la cama; para los que no entiendan-. Quizá fuese que ella es de Mallorca aunque afincada en Madrid desde hace años. Que allí, en la isla, con el calor, la lengua distinta que los diferencia y, quizá, por estar casi colonizados por veraneantes alemanes, son mas dados a dejarse la piel en los juegos sobre el colchón y a mirar menos el porqué y mas el cuánto. Simplificando: porque me gusta, entonces -cuánto- lo repito hasta que no puedo más.

El tema en cuestión es que al día siguiente, o dos días después - según lo fuerte que seas o la cantidad de amigas que tengas para ir al cine- la escribes un mensaje al móvil y ella… Ella se deja querer. Contesta, coqueta y divertida, pero tarde, incluso un día más tarde. Tú sientes que el cielo se va desplomando según una curva logarítmica que tiene en el eje de las equis el tiempo que transcurre hasta su respuesta y en el de las íes tu confianza. Siempre he sido ateo y cuando hablo de cielo me refiero a seguridad en uno mismo. Se resquebraja poco a poco al principio, pero a pedazos que pueden matar, si caen sobre tu cabeza, al final. Es decir que hasta comienzas a arrepentirte de haberle contado a los amigos lo bueno que fue y lo simpática que era ella. Lo que te gusto y lo que te gustaría si…, bueno, no sé, quizá quedemos otra vez, no es que me importe, a ver si un día de estos la llamo, era maja pero no sé... ¡Ya!, ¡Claro!

Al final, contesta y te propone unas cañas por Malasaña. Después de tanto tiempo, después de que ya no te quedan uñas, después de, incluso, haberle pedido a tu madre que no hable más del tema. Ocurre que es como si la misma Manuela se hubiera dejado coger por los franceses. Se cae el mito y ya no hay tantas ganas. De hecho, ya no hay ilusión. Ya lo has conseguido. Ella está detrás de ti, no tú detrás de ella.

Me pregunto porque acontece eso. Porque deseamos algo con tanto fervor hasta tenerlo y, entonces, lo vendemos casi regalado cansados de haber jugado con ello demasiado tiempo. ¿No sería más simple saber qué es lo que realmente queremos?, ¿Y saber apreciarlo? Pero quizá la vida no sería tan divertida.