Beautiful Travertine Shower Ideas (23 Bathroom Designs & Color Matching Tips)

Travertine tile comes in various styles in tones of tan, white, cream, brown, and red. The natural limestone looks elegant and can definitely provide a feeling of total luxury for your bathroom space. This gallery showcases travertine shower ideas in luxury bathrooms with expansive layouts, high-end decor, and finishes. 

One of the best bathroom finishes is stone, not only because of the beautiful grains and textures stone can come in but also because it is a good non-slip surface when fired, matte, or bush-hammered. One of the most easily recognizable natural stone surfaces is travertine, constructed from natural limestone. Coming in a variety of colors from white, beige, gold, brown, red, grey, and even an almost bluish tone, travertine is also prized for the patina it gains as it ages. This gives travertine the special trait of becoming better as it ages, unlike other natural stone variants that wear thin or have their natural color fade through time.

Depending on location, travertine can be a cheaper alternative to marble or granite tiles while maintaining the same elegant shade and grain. In addition, its natural porous quality gives travertine a lot of natural holes on its surface. This may seem like a disadvantage in other rocks as dirt can get inside these holes, but for travertine, this look adds to the dramatic quality it provides. Because of this naturally dramatic look, the stone may be considered a more ecologically conscious choice. Travertine must not undergo many manufacturing or reworking procedures before becoming a finished product.

Before having the travertine installed for your own bathroom, there are some important things to take note of to maintain the look and provide proper care for your flooring. First, although the porosity of travertine is generally welcomed, it would be wise to use a special sealant or polish product on the tile before installation. These pores are large and might even go all the way through, so defending entrances and exits for water and other substances should be considered as prolonged exposure can create cracks or cause tiles to pop out of their layouts due to the tiles expanding because of water.

Another important thing to note is that the travertine’s porosity and reactive mineral composition may sometimes cause spills to stain on the stone. For example, acidic juices like orange or lemon could react with the travertine’s mineral structure and cause a permanent stain.

Some common household cleaning products may be incompatible with travertine floor tiles. For example, similarly acidic cleaning agents such as vinegar or salt must not be used on these tiles. Care must be taken when choosing a cleaning product that is less acidic and will not react with the stone.

Travertine is still a great finish for any house, provided the homeowner is responsible enough to take care of this beautiful natural stone. It is still a great conversation starter with various colors and elegantly carved lines. The variety of colors, tile shapes, and sizes provides many different travertine shower ideas to create a beautiful bathroom design.

Travertine Shower Color Matching Chart

Travertine is never one flat color, if you hold two tiles from the same box next to each other and you’ll see it. That’s the appeal, and it’s also why picking grout and fixtures can get tricky. Match the wrong undertone and a beautiful stone reads more muddy then it should. Here’s the shortcut, find your travertine tone in the first column, then follow the row across. These pairings work because they respect the stone’s undertone instead of fighting it.

Travertine Tone	Grout Color	Fixture Finish	Wall Paint	The Look You Get
Ivory / Classic Light	Warm off white, one shade darker than the tile	Brushed nickel, chrome, matte black	Soft white or warm greige	Bright and calm. The safest tone to work with, and the one that photographs best.
Beige / Classic Medium	Sandy beige, matched to the tile body	Oil rubbed bronze, aged brass, champagne	Creamy tan or pale mushroom	Warm and traditional. Bronze is the classic partner here and it never looks dated.
Gold / Walnut	Medium tan, slightly darker than the tile	Unlacquered brass, antique bronze, copper	Olive, clay, or deep warm white	Rich and Mediterranean. Skip cool chrome. It goes flat against all that gold.
Noce / Chocolate	Mid brown, never white	Matte black, gunmetal, dark bronze	Warm cream to keep the room from closing in	Moody and cave like in the best way. Needs good lighting or it gets gloomy fast.
Silver / Grey	Light to mid grey, cool toned	Polished chrome, brushed nickel, matte black	Cool white or pale grey	Modern and quiet. The one travertine that plays nicely with cool tones.
Red / Rose	Warm taupe that mutes the pink	Aged brass, copper, oil rubbed bronze	Terracotta, warm putty, or soft white	Earthy and Southwestern. Grey anything next to this will turn it pink.

Decide on the Grout: People agonize over fixtures and then pick grout off a chip in the store parking lot. It’s backwards. Grout covers more visual surface than every fixture in the room combined, and it’s the one thing you can’t swap out on a Saturday. The rule that holds up: go one shade darker than the lightest tone in your tile. Matching exactly looks washed out once it cures, and grout always dries lighter than the sample. Going too dark turns your wall into a grid, which fights the whole point of natural stone. Wide grout lines make this worse. If you’re doing a tight 1/16 inch joint, you have more room to experiment. At 1/4 inch, that color is a real design element and you should treat it like one.

Mixing Finishes Without It Looking Like an Accident: Two metals in one shower is fine. Three starts looking unplanned. If you want to mix, keep the shower valve and head in the same finish and let a secondary piece like a towel bar or drain cover be the odd one out. One thing worth knowing about unlacquered brass: it will patina, and fast in a wet room. Some people love that. If you want it to stay bright and shiny forever, buy lacquered or pick a different finish. Fighting the patina is a losing battle.

Test It Wet: Travertine darkens when it’s wet, and sealed travertine darkens differently than raw. That beige sample that looked perfect dry in the showroom can read two shades deeper in an actual shower. Take your samples home, seal one, and splash water on both. Look at them in the morning and again at night under the bathroom light you’ll actually be using. It’s a boring twenty minutes that saves you from a very expensive shrug every time you walk past the shower.

Travertine Shower Designs

This Mediterranean-style bathroom features a pair of arched entryways leading to the main bathroom. Two smaller alcoves, a high window, and an illuminated recess in white stone tile surround it. The rest of the shower features travertine wall tiles, which provide a good background for the bronzed finish of the taps, a telephone wand sprayer, and a rain showerhead. Bordered by stone tiles, the main enclosure floor features a black stone mosaic tile, which contrasts with the beige travertine and is a great non-slip option.

In the picture above, this luxury shower chooses a wider grained stone tile for its flooring, which gives focus to the rich travertine subway tile lining the stall walls. A smaller basket weave variety is used for the floor, giving it a more non-slip quality. The rest of this luxurious master bathroom features a light cream color for its raised panel drawers and a smooth, polished travertine slab for its countertops. The large mirror on the lavatory is framed by a Classic style built-up architrave in clean white.

This craftsman style bathroom boasts a beautiful oversized glass shower with a bronze frame, rainfall showerhead, patterned travertine tile floor, and wall inlay. The two separate bathroom vanities feature granite countertops and rich wood cabinetry. An enclosed tub sits in the corner and offers outdoor views.

This luxurious but traditional style mansion bathroom features a polished brown granite finish for its floor tiles that contrasts well with the clean cream paint used for the cabinets, trims, and raised paneling for the tub area. The tub is set in a hexagonal outcrop, decorated with sheer curtains and a granite top. The glass-enclosed area features a rough travertine tile in smaller cuts, with the color varying from white to beige to brown.

This luxurious bathroom features a double-capacity shower with rich gold taps, a showerhead, and water jets. The expensive feel of the taps is given a more natural look using the white and brown stained travertine tiles for the walls. The floor, bench, and wall accent are in a micro mosaic tile of the same travertine tile, bordered by brown granite trim.

This large master bathroom features a light beige travertine tile all around, with a bigger square cut for the floors and a small rectangular cut for the walls. The ceiling, wood door and window blinds are all in a clean white, which brings out the gentle grain of the stone patterned resin tub. The highlight of this bathroom is the glass enclosed area with chrome finished taps and a pair of telephone sprayers and rain showers, perfect to use for two.

This luxurious master bathroom features a mirrored white stone countertop with peach-colored raised panel under-counter cabinets and drawers. Atop these, a wall-long mirror occupies the space. The massive room features a central enclosed tub or white resin matched with Classic style oiled bronze taps. To the back, clear tempered glass encloses a shower area with a pair of matching showerheads and wall-mounted taps, also in the same oiled bronze finish. Travertine was the main stone tile used for the back wall, as well as the base of the bathtub enclosure.

This modern bathroom features a few traditional elements, such as the door and window trims, contrasting with the wild-grained beauty provided by the travertine tiles lining the bathtub and shower area walls. As a more modern element, the bathtub taps, rain showerhead, and telephone spray wand are all in a chrome finish. On the outside, the vanity counter features a plain glossy white stone countertop with dark wood laminate cabinets and casework.

This Southern style bathroom features a brown travertine tile on the walls and ceiling of its shower area, mixed with a black brown and white mosaic tile on its wainscoting and coved shelves. A simplistic river rock in cement was used for the flooring, accented by the smooth profiles of the matte black telephone shower. On the outside, matte black was also used for the lavatory taps, contrasting with the classic style vanity lights mounted on top of the mirror.

This craftsman style bathroom starts with the intricately carved warm wood drawers and windows at the vanity, topped by a travertine countertop. A large Persian carpet is bordered by an eclectic arrangement leading into the curved shower area: a pink armchair, a red throw pillow, and large potted plant. The curved shower features travertine tile on its floor, walls, and shower bench. A complicated set of taps, sprayers and jets are mounted onto the wall, as a rain showerhead is mounted on the ceiling.

This large showering room features a curved wall dressed in matte brown travertine tiles. The opposite wall, featuring a low shower bench, is also done in brown tile while a band of split face river stones runs along the length of both walls. The river stone finish is also used for the flooring, and the coarse natural finish goes well with the polished vintage finish used for the showerhead and taps mounted onto the wall. At the end of the room, a glass door serves as the entrance into this cave-like shower.

This large shower features rough travertine tiles on its walls, disturbed only by two fine lines of beige mosaic tile running along its width. An arched alcove is carved into the corner, with its interior done in the same beige mosaic tile. On either side of this corner is a pair of wall-mounted showers with taps done in a vintage oiled bronze finish.

A small high window lights this small shower’s interior with travertine tiled walls. A small bench in a lighter sandstone colored tile is built on the corner, while vintage oiled bronze finish is used for the design, rainfall head, towel rack, and wall hook.

This very rustic looking shower room features a square cut rough travertine tile on its walls and ceiling, as well as the bench built-up to the side. The floor is in a lighter shade mosaic tile that matches the patterned tile running along the width of the walls. On the other corner, triangular wooden shelves are installed, and the large rounded feature shower head becomes the central element of this rustic style bathroom.

This large shower area comes from a traditional style master bathroom with a lengthy vanity countertop with three sets of wall mounted vanity lights illuminating the emperador stone countertop. The large shower area is bordered by a glass wall and white travertine stone tiles on its walls, separated from each other by a dark colored grout, creating a visually stunning linear effect. The floors, on the other hand, feature black subway tiles with light colored grout, creating an almost monochrome effect when contrasted with the walls and the matte black taps, telephone showers and rainshowers mounted on the white ceiling.

This large luxury shower features travertine tiles on its angular walls, with some tiles featuring a square pattern. The floor is in a brown stone mosaic tile, leading up to the corner stone bench with a speckled stone top. Oiled bronze telephone shower, taps, and door handles all give this shower room a vintage feel, further emphasized by the glass blocks at the very top of the wall to light up the entire space.

This luxury master bathroom uses larger travertine tile cuts in its main bathroom area, terminating at the middle where the walls are painted a clean off-white color. Inside the shower, a darker tone is used for the mosaic tile square insert and on the floor, amidst the same large, light-toned stone tile. The square wall-mounted showerhead and modern style bath tub suggest a more Contemporary vibe while the vanity counter suggests something more rustic with a pair of sinks installed onto a pair of wooden drawer and shelf sets.

This master bathroom has a very luxurious feel thanks to the vaulted high ceilings, complemented by arches over the bathtub with tall arched frosted window and the vanity counter with equally tall arched glass mirror. A lovely bathroom chandelier hung over the tub gives this room an elegant appeal. In the center, a round patterned rug is topped with a beige button-upholstered Ottoman. All around, a light shade of stone tile is used for the floors and built-up wall, with a similar stone finish used for the dark wood cabinetry’s countertop. To complement the natural stone finish, the rest of the bathroom is painted a grey textured stucco with clean white trims.

This Mediterranean style bathroom features some dark heavy-grained wood for its doors, as well as its recessed panel under-counter drawers. The countertop is a grainy brown granite, which is also used for the platform of the sunken antique metal tub to the side with oiled bronze taps. The bathtub area is lined with a diagonally laid-out rough stone tile. A larger cut is used for the glass-enclosed shower area, and the walls are painted a dark brown-grey to go with the travertine’s natural color. For a more Mediterranean feel, a wooden blade ceiling fan and hanging lampshade chandelier were added to the center and over the bathtub.

This cottage style bathroom features a small square enclosure at the center to serve as its shower area. Enclosed with glass, the interiors feature black metal taps, shower, door handle and hinges. On the outside, split face travertine stone is used to build up the pillars with heavy wood beams for its top portion. The same rough split face is used for the floors, while a smoother, larger cut is used for the walls. Travertine shower ideas that combine the stone with accents of wood can create a warmer feel and emphasize a craftsman touch.

This contemporary style bathroom starts with a grey textured stucco all around its walls with a textured travertine in varied sizes for its floors. On the inside of the glass shower enclosure, smaller cuts of the travertine tile are used on the walls, which feature oiled bronze showerhead, taps and a pair of matching rainfall shower heads. In a contrast to the smooth color and grain of the travertine, slate in blue, brown and orange and cut into thin rectangular pieces were installed onto the outer wall as well as the built-up for the white ceramic bathtub.

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