31 Stylish Shower Pan and Niche Designs for Your Next Remodel

By Dillon Clayton

A shower pan can anchor the entire design, especially when its tile pattern echoes a built-in niche above it. Hexagons, pebble tile, penny tile, herringbone, and marble bring different textures to the floor, while glass enclosures and contrasting trim complete the look. These ideas show how to coordinate the practical details with the rest of the bathroom.

Gray Hexagon Pan and Shower Niche

Gray Hexagon Tile Shower Pan and Niche

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A chrome shower kit is mounted on the shower wall behind a seamless glass enclosure. White glossy wall tile runs in a staggered layout. Gray hexagon tile covers the shower pan and lines the shower niche.

White Subway Tile With a Hexagon Shower Pan

Subway Tile Shower with Hexagon Tile Pan

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Look inside the white shower and you will see subway wall tile, a frameless glass enclosure, and a chrome shower kit. The rectangular niche is set into the shower, with the white hexagon pan below it.

Pebble Shower with Square Niche and Gray Vanity

White and Gray Pebble Tile Shower Pan

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White and gray pebble tile covers the shower pan, while a square niche sits in the shower. The shower has white subway wall tile and a frameless glass enclosure fitted to it. A gray vanity stands nearby.

White and Gray Marble Shower With Pebble Tile

Pebble Tile Shower Pan and Niche

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The bathroom has white shiplap walls and a white toilet. Its shower is finished in marble in white and gray, with a sliding glass door fitted to it. The shower pan and niche use pebble tile in white and gray.

Pebble Tile Shower

Shower with Pebble Tile Pan

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Black tile covers the shower niche, which is next to a gray shower wall set vertically. A built-in bench is above the shower pan. The pan uses white, black, and gray pebble tile and is behind the glass shower enclosure.

Gray Mosaic Tile on the Pan and Niche

Gray Hexagon Mosaic Shower Pan and Niche

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A gray hexagon mosaic niche matches the shower pan. The pan is part of a shower with white staggered tile, while a silver chandelier is over the white oval freestanding bathtub beside the curbed glass enclosure.

Black Hexagon Mosaic on the Shower Pan and Niche

Black Hexagon Tile Pan and Niche

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The shower has white subway tile on its walls and sits within a glass enclosure. Black hexagon tile covers the shower pan and the shower niche, and the same pattern is used on the bathroom floor. A black shower kit is mounted on the shower.

Shower Pan with White Hexagon Mosaic

White Hexagon Tile Shower Pan

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White tile covers the shower walls, with a white tiled niche built into them. The shower enclosure combines bronze and glass and surrounds the shower. Its pan uses white hexagon tile, while the bathroom floor has a black-and-white mosaic tile pattern.

Shower Niche with Black Hexagon Mosaic

Black Hexagon Tile Shower Niche

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The walk-in shower has a black hexagon tile pan and a matching black hexagon tile niche, set against white staggered wall tile. A glass partition with a black grid stands next to the stained wood bathroom vanity.

Beige Square Niche

Beige Square Tile Shower with Niche

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The shower has beige square tile and a picture window. It is enclosed by a frameless glass door, with a chrome rain showerhead mounted above a beige niche and a beige shower pan.

Interior designer Annuska Menoita used large-format tiles on the walls, floors, and niche in a rural project. The tiles unify the bathroom interior and enhance the bathroom spaces, while framing a natural vista through the main window. The greenery outside became the focal point.

Annuska Menoita’s storage niche keeps essentials within reach and supports both functionality and shower comfort. With some versatility, a lower niche can also double as a footrest.

Square Grid Niche Shower

White Grid Tile Shower with Niche

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The niche uses white grid-pattern tile and sits under a wood shower bench. The white shower has a window, and its shower pan matches the niche. Black-and-white diamond floor tile covers the floor.

Gray Niche with White Shower Pan

Gray Tile Shower with White Tile Pan

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The white vanity has brass accents. Bronze and glass make up the shower door, which fits the gray-tiled shower. The shower includes a niche and matches with a white tile pan.

Light Gray Shower Recess

Light Gray Grid Tile Shower Niche

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Light gray grid tiles cover the rectangular niche, which sits below a window and over a white and gray hexagonal tile pan. The shower has square tiles in light gray and a seamless glass enclosure. The bathroom is white with gold fixtures.

Black White Gray Hexagon Shower Details

Hexagon Tile Shower Niche and Pan

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The black shower kit is mounted on the shower’s staggered white tile. It sits next to a stacked niche covered in white, gray, and black hexagon tile, while the matching hexagon shower pan is fitted to the shower.

Black Trim Shower Niche

White Tile Shower with Black Trim Niche

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The shower has a white and gray mosaic pan, white tile in a staggered pattern, and a niche with black trim. It is enclosed with seamless glass. A white freestanding bathtub for soaking sits below it, with a black freestanding tub filler next to the enclosure.

A Glass Partition for the Shower with an Aged Brass Frame

Aged Brass Frame Glass Shower Partition

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The shower uses staggered gray glazed tile, with a gray tile pan underfoot. A gold wall-mounted showerhead sits opposite a square niche.

Gray Marble Shower Niche with a Rectangular Shape

Shower with Rectangular Gray Marble Niche

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The shower pan has a herringbone pattern in white and gray tiles. Above it, multiple brass shower kits are mounted on the wall. A rectangular niche made of gray marble is fitted into the shower, with trim in white and gray.

Herringbone Shower Niche

Gray Herringbone Tile Shower Niche

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The shower pan is below a herringbone niche fitted into the wall. Gray herringbone tile covers the shower, which has a frameless glass enclosure. A gold wall-mounted shower kit is attached to it.

White and Gray Penny Tile Pan

Penny Tile Farmhouse Shower Pan

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The shower pan is covered in penny tile, using white and gray pieces. This farmhouse shower has gray glazed tile arranged in a grid. A teak bench sits on the pan, and a rectangular niche has a white shelf.

Blue Gray Bathroom Decor with Striped Curtain

Blue Bathroom Decor with Tile Floor and Shower Niche

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Blue and gray decor extends throughout the bathroom. The floor uses patterned tile in gray and white, and the shower niche has the same colors and pattern.

A blue and white striped curtain hangs against the white tiled shower wall. The bathroom also includes a vanity.

White Subway Tile Shower with Herringbone Border

Shower Stall with Herringbone Border Tiles

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White subway tile forms the shower stall, with a white herringbone border as part of the enclosure. The stall includes a built-in bench. Its niche has black trim and sits above a pan finished with white penny tile.

Herringbone Shower and White Gray Pebble Pan

Herringbone Tile Shower with Pebble Pan

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The shower niche uses white penny tile and sits within the white herringbone wall. Behind the black metal kit is a glass enclosure, and the kit is mounted on a white staggered tile wall.

Gray Hexagon Shower Pan

Gray Hexagon Tile Shower Pan

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A white subway tile shower contains a niche with black trim. Its door is made of bronze and glass and is fitted to the shower.

Black Shower Pan With Hexagon Tile Niche

Black Hexagon Shower Pan and Niche

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In front of the white staggered-tile shower is a stained-wood vanity with two sinks. A round mirror with a black frame is paired with the vanity. The shower has a black hexagon niche and matching black hexagon pan, and a glass enclosure surrounds it.

White And Gray Hexagon Shower Details

Shower Pan and Niche with Hexagon Tile

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The seamless glass shower enclosure is behind the gold shower kit. The shower itself uses white and gray subway tile, with the kit next to it.

Black And White Mosaic Shower

Mosaic Tile Shower with Niche

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The shower enclosure has a glass surface with a black grid. Nearby, the floor tile is hexagonal marble in white and gray, beside stained wood flooring.

White Subway Shower with Niche

Bathroom with White Subway Tile Shower

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A cream and gray towel hangs on the white shiplap wall. It is over bathroom tile in white and blue.

White Square Subway Tile Niche

Square White Subway Tile Shower Niche

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The shower niche uses gray hexagon tile, which matches the gray hexagon tile on the shower pan. The bathroom floor has black-and-white mosaic tile.

Farmhouse Walk-In Shower Niche

Walk-in Farmhouse Shower with Niche

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A built-in white bench is positioned between the shower pan and shower niche. Both use tile in white and gray. The shower kit has a nickel finish, and the shower head is a rain type.

White Hexagon Tile Shower Floor

White Hexagon Floor Tiles for Shower

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White shiplap covers the bathroom wall. A seamless glass enclosure frames the shower, which uses white subway tile. The floor has white hexagon tile, and multiple niches are set in a half wall.