New shower on the main floor

The main floor shower has been bugging Christine for years. It was just fine in my opinion, but according to her (yes, she's the one that cleans it most of the time), it quickly gets yucky on the grout and the porous tile surface accumulates soap scum easily. So, out it came. I decided that I could tackle pretty much everything on my own, except the plumbing, which Kenny helped me out with.

As you can see from the photo tour, I went with Kerdi board again - it's so easy to work with, and it only added another $150 to the overall cost, so it's worth it. Also, to make my life easier tiling and from a maintenance perspective, I went with a acrylic shower base - we never take baths, and if someone wants to, they can use the basement tub. I'm proud of the shower niche I made - the rest of the tile is normal ceramic, but I used 4 x real marble tiles to finish off the edges of the niche rather than use Schluter Rondec like we did in the basement. I also used a small piece for the soap shelf in the corner. I was skeptical of the Rona shower column I bought on sale; but after removing the water restrictors, the shower really pours out of the rainfall head.