“Over the past five years, people have been putting more and more time, money and thought into their bathrooms,” says Eric Messer, owner of Sunrise Building & Remodeling in Briarcliff Manor, NY, who handles alot of luxury bathroom projects.

“In terms of luxury design, says Messer Europeans have been doing it for years and Americans have recently been catching on. The trend now is for tumbled stone, marble, lime stone, honed granite and inlays in tile or marble. Wall borders are very common as well.”