Subway Tile Bathroom Remodel with Star-Pattern Floor — Houston, TX

This bathroom pairs two strong patterns in a genuinely small footprint: crisp white subway tile with dark grout lines climbing the walls, and a bold navy-and-white star-motif floor tile laid on the diagonal underfoot. The vanity wall, toilet, and walk-in shower are arranged in a tight line along one side of the room, with the shower tucked at the far end beneath a sloped, vaulted ceiling. A gray woodgrain door with a matte black lever handle marks the entry, and the star floor tile runs continuously from that threshold through to the base of the shower, tying the whole room together visually despite its narrow proportions.

The vanity is a single white cabinet with a shaker-style door on each end and a center stack of three drawers, all fitted with long matte black bar pulls. It’s topped with a white solid-surface countertop holding one undermount rectangular sink, and the backsplash tile continues straight up the wall behind it. Rather than hanging a framed mirror on top of the tile, the installer cut the subway tile around a large frameless rectangular mirror so it sits flush with the wall, a detail that keeps the sightline clean and lets the tile grid read as uninterrupted.

The shower is fully tiled floor to ceiling in the same white subway pattern, enclosed by a frameless glass panel that slides on a matte black barn-door style track instead of swinging open. Fixtures are all matte black: a square rain shower head on a wall arm, a separate handheld wand on its own bar, and a rectangular control valve. A long tiled niche with black metal edge trim is recessed into the back wall for storage, positioned just below a frosted privacy window that lets in daylight without exposing the interior, and the shower floor switches to a small gray-and-white pebble-style mosaic underfoot.

Finishing touches lean warm against all the white and black: a freestanding toilet-paper stand and matching toilet-brush holder in black with a brass accent hook, rolled gray hand towels, and small white ceramic bud vases holding sprigs of faux olive branch on the vanity counter. Outlets and switch plates are kept plain white so they disappear against the tile. The overall material palette stays deliberately narrow, white tile, white cabinetry, matte black hardware, and one graphic navy floor pattern, which keeps a compact room feeling considered rather than busy.