Flat tile border for shower door mounting?
Question : Would it look stupid if I put a flat tile of the same color/same manufacturer preserving the horizontal grout lines as a kind of border? So from the edge of the next row with grout spacing is the width of the narrow strip to the left so the vertical grout lines would be symmetrical.*
Background information:
It is probably obvious this is my first attempt at tiling. I am still trying to figure out how to not get thin set everywhere but also I seem to improve every time so there is that. many apologies for the messy work but I am super proud of how straight and level everything is, please forgive the distorted camera angle.
So I made the curb too wide probably but have a marble slab that will cover it.
I have noted where another full width tile will land, I will have to notch the bottom one which has become not a big deal.
The blue area is meant to indicate a 4x4 nailer inside of the wall that is well reinforced with the intention of a frameless shower door.
I am installing tile with a raised pattern. Looks cool but I am worried about mounting a shower door to the textured tile.
Obviously the vertical grout lines are not centered on the niche, I did this so the valve wall, which is opposite, has the valve centered on a full tile. Perhaps not the correct aesthetic design but my motivation to avoid a grout line through the valve trim was higher.
Yes, I am back buttering. I'm actually amazed with how much difference just a little bit of water can make in the consistency of the thinset.
Actually on some of the tiles I couldn't get my trowel on the wall so I used my margin trowel to back butter the wall and I put the ridges on the tile and that worked as well.