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# A Modern Jersey City Bathroom Remodel Built Around a Walk-In Shower

 By Keith McCarthy

07.03.2026

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A narrow Jersey City bathroom had one real problem before the renovation. A tub, a toilet, and a vanity were crowded into a footprint with almost no clear floor, and dark surfaces on every wall pulled the room tighter than its actual dimensions. The renovation turned on a single structural decision. Out came the tub and the raised curb, in went one continuous waterproofed floor running from the sink wall through the shower, with a frameless glass panel doing the only dividing. Sage green tile, a navy mosaic floor, and a wall-hung sink all followed from that choice.

## Before the remodel: a dark room with nowhere to stand

Dark finishes covered the original bathroom from floor to ceiling. Black walls, a heavy vanity, and a full tub left a homeowner with the toilet at one elbow and the tub edge at the other. The single window let daylight in, but the dark surfaces soaked up most of it before it reached the middle of the room.

The deeper issue was the layout, not the color. A tub in a footprint this small claims the one stretch of floor that could otherwise open the room up, and a curb plus a shower door chop a tight space into separate boxes. Anyone who has shared a small bathroom in the morning knows the result: you are always stepping around something.

The window and the radiator both stayed put, which fixed two of the walls before design started. Freeing up floor came down to the shower and the sink, since a bigger footprint was never on the table.

![Bathroom with black walls, white tiles, a pedestal sink.](https://www.blockrenovation.com/hs-fs/hubfs/f5ca7960-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1.webp?width=1620&height=2160&name=f5ca7960-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1.webp)

## The move that opened the room: a curbless walk-in shower

The tub came out and a curbless shower went in, which is more involved than swapping one for the other. The floor has to be re-sloped to a drain, the full wet zone waterproofed behind the tile, and the two areas split by a single pane of glass rather than a framed enclosure. In a footprint this tight, that buys back the floor the tub was holding, and a shower floor that runs unbroken from the vanity lets the room function as one space instead of three.

The navy mosaic floor carries straight into the shower with no threshold to step over, and the glass panel stops short of the ceiling so the sage tile continues unbroken across the back wall. A black rainfall head and a handheld on a slide bar handle the fixtures without a bulky enclosure breaking up the sightline to the window.

A single fixed glass panel has no track and no hinged door, so there is less hardware to clean and nothing to wrestle open in a tight space. The small mosaic on the shower floor gives more grout per square foot, which means more grip underfoot than a large-format tile would on a wet, level surface.

![Modern bathroom with green tiles and a glass walk-in shower.](https://www.blockrenovation.com/hs-fs/hubfs/f55ee650-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1%20(2).webp?width=1620&height=2160&name=f55ee650-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1%20(2).webp)

## Making a small bathroom feel bigger with sage green tile

Color was the first thing to change, and it went the opposite direction from the old scheme. Pale, matte sage on the walls keeps the room from feeling closed in the way the black walls did. The tile runs in a stacked vertical grid, which pulls the wall height up, and the grout sits close to the tile in tone so the surface stays calm rather than busy. In a room you take in at a glance, a quiet wall makes the whole space feel larger than a high-contrast one.

The window sits on the same wall as the shower, so morning light crosses the pale tile instead of dying against a dark surface. A potted plant and a candle share the sill, the kind of lived-in detail a staged photo usually leaves out.

## A wall-hung sink and round mirror that give back floor space

The custom trough sink mounts to the wall with the floor left open beneath it. A wall-mounted faucet keeps the basin shallow and the deck clear. Above it, an oversized round mirror bounces the window light back into the room and lifts the visual ceiling. The textured blue basin is the one loud object in an otherwise restrained palette.

Open floor under the sink leaves room for a step stool or a basket and keeps the splash zone easy to mop. A stem of dried flowers and a single soap pump sit on the ledge, which is about all it needs to carry.

![Shower with green tiles, black fixtures, and wall light.](https://www.blockrenovation.com/hs-fs/hubfs/f55ff7c0-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1.webp?width=1620&height=2160&name=f55ff7c0-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1.webp)<https://static2.blockrenovation.com/f55ff7c0-d34a-11eb-9d1d-3514adcc0bb1.webp>

## Storage built into the walls: recessed shower niches

Two niches recessed into the shower wall hold bottles and soap without a hanging caddy or a corner shelf stealing elbow room. Set into the stud bays, they keep the shower clear of anything that would jut into space that is already tight.

## Black fixtures and copper sconces against sage tile

Matte black runs through the faucet, the shower trim, and the hardware, giving the pale tile crisp edges to push against. Copper and wood sconces flank the mirror and add enough warmth that the green and black scheme never tips cold. With only one window on the shower wall, [lighting placement](https://www.blockrenovation.com/guides/adding-lighting-above-your-shower-inspiration-and-practicalities?hsLang=en) carries more weight than it would in a brighter room, since the wet zone needs to stay usable after dark. Underfoot, the navy floor grounds the lighter walls and connects the shower to the rest of the room.

## What a small bathroom remodel like this costs

Across Jersey City and the greater New York market, a full gut renovation of a small bathroom generally falls in a planning range of about $25,000 to $45,000. Those are representative editorial figures for budgeting, not this project's numbers, which the gallery does not publish. Where a specific project lands inside that range depends on a few decisions more than anything else.

The lower end holds when the plumbing stays roughly where it is, fixtures come from stock lines, the floor and walls use porcelain field tile, and the shower keeps a standard curb.

The upper end is driven by the work this bathroom took on: relocating a drain for a curbless floor, a custom or imported sink, a frameless glass panel, [full-height tile](https://www.blockrenovation.com/guides/fully-tiled-bathroom-design-pros-and-cons?hsLang=en), and designer fittings in matte black.

| Cost driver | Lower end | Higher end |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Layout and plumbing | Keep fixtures in place | Relocate drain for curbless floor |
| Shower | Standard curb, stock door | Curbless wet floor, frameless glass |
| Sink | Stock vanity or basin | Custom wall-hung trough sink |
| Tile and fittings | Porcelain field tile, basic trim | Full-height tile, matte black designer trim |

Two line items tend to surprise homeowners pricing a project like this. Curbless waterproofing costs more than [a standard shower pan](https://www.blockrenovation.com/guides/cost/shower-installation-costs?hsLang=en) because the membrane has to extend across the open floor and the slope has to be built in by hand. Custom and imported pieces, like the trough sink here, carry longer lead times and higher prices than a stock vanity. Neither is wasted money in a bathroom this small, since both are what make the space and the look work, but they are worth planning for before the budget is set.

## Get the look: materials in this Jersey City bathroom

- Sage green stacked ceramic wall tile
- Navy blue mosaic floor tile, continued into the shower
- Curbless walk-in shower with a frameless glass panel
- Wall-mounted textured concrete trough sink
- Matte black wall-mount faucet and shower trim
- Oversized round black-framed mirror
- Recessed shower niches
- Copper and wood wall sconces
- One-piece white toilet

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