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We have this in our bathroom (floor and shower walls). The holes in ours are filled with grout. The honed finish is nice and not slippery on bare, wet feet. The uneven surface makes it harder to keep clean than smooth ceramic tile. Also, it was cheap!

How do you clean your shower floor? We recently bought a house with travertine in the shower and we've been using a standard "bathroom cleaner" with bleach, but I know there must be a better way. I read not to use acidic cleaners, but i don't really want to pay for the "natural stone cleaners" if I don't have to. I use vinegar to clean the rest of the house, but am afraid it will damage the travertine (probably no worse than the bleach).

Travertine in the bathroom is a disaster. Sure it looks nice, but there is no maintenance solution to the mildew stains that will build up over time in the shower. Bleach will etch it.

I really don't care how pretty it is. And yes, it is pretty.

It's absolutely masochistic (and not very green) to put something so difficult to clean in your bathroom, right? I mean, seriously... if it's really that hard to keep clean, aren't you just kind of asking for a lifetime of back-breaking cleaning that will come to nothing? And if you're going to have someone come in to clean it for you, wouldn't it cost you a fortune, and wouldn't the bathroom need a revolving door when they keep quitting?

Agreed. Not practical for a shower stall. BTW Is that an IKEA sing and faucet?

Oops, I meant sinK not sinG!

so over travertine in the bathroom...done done done. I love the Getty and all of Italy as much as the next person, but if I see one more spec house with "luxury granite kitchens and travertine baths" I am going to scream! There are so many beautiful options out there that aren't those.

I'm remodeling 1.5 of my bathrooms. What tile would you all recommend that is EASY to clean. I love the look of glass mosaic tiles but they look like they might be too delicate for a floor.

Eowes- I was thinking the same thing!

Mdeatstar: glass mosaic will be hard to clean too because of the grout lines. You should go with a porcelain, the larger the better, on the shower walls too.