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Wet-room-ready zellige and terracotta that turn a shower into a statement.
Shower tiles in real spaces
Rendered from each tile's real colour & glaze — shown with different grout options.
Antique Rose Zellige 4x4
Burnt Honey Zellige 4x4
Moroccan White Zellige 4x4
Oxblood Zellige 4x4
Maroon Zellige 4x4
Ivory Ecru Zellige 4x4
Glazed Terracotta Zellige 4x4
Desert Sage Zellige 4x4
Smokey Blue Zellige 4x4
Desert Fig Zellige 4x4
Moroccan White & Silk White Octagon Zellige 8x8
Palm Grove Zellige 4x4
Unglazed Terracotta Zellige 4x4
Unglazed Terracotta & Moroccan White Octagon Zellige 8x8
Verde Terrazzo 8x8
Terra Mother of Pearl 4x8
Charcoal Speckle Terrazzo 8x8
Verde Mother of Pearl 4x8
Navy Mother of Pearl 4x8
Pure Hexagon Terrazzo 8x9
Midnight Black Mother of Pearl 4x8
Shower walls: yes. Shower floors: no.
Zellige belongs on shower walls, and it is superb there — a wet glaze on a hand-cut tile in a room full of steam and low light is the best possible showcase for the material. Desert Sage, Sea Mist and the whites are the most-specified.
It does not belong on a shower floor. The glaze is slick when wet and it crazes with thermal cycling, which is a hairline network in the glaze that is characteristic of zellige and is not a defect — but it is also not a floor you want to stand on wet. Use bejmat, a cement tile, or a small-format mosaic underfoot instead.
Planning a zellige shower wall
Waterproofing is the substrate behind the tile, not the glaze, so the shower is built exactly as any tiled shower would be and the zellige goes on the walls on top of it. Use a sealed grout.
Put the zellige on the walls and choose the floor from tiles made to be walked on: cement tile, which is matte and naturally slip-resistant, or bejmat. Pick both from samples laid side by side so the colours sit together.
Crazing, water and lead times
Crazing will happen in a shower. It is in the nature of a hand-glazed terracotta tile fired in a wood kiln, it appears on every maker's zellige including ours, and it does not let water through — the tile body behind the glaze is what waterproofing is for, and that is the substrate's job, not the tile's.
Order the whole shower at once. Batches vary, and a wall where one patch was fired six weeks later is visible.
Common Questions
Can you use zellige tile in a shower?
On the walls, yes — it handles steam and water without trouble, and a wet glaze in low light is where the material looks best. Not on the shower floor: it is slippery underfoot and not made for it.
Does zellige crack in a shower?
The glaze crazes — a fine hairline network — and that is normal on hand-glazed terracotta rather than a fault. It is not a leak: waterproofing is the substrate behind the tile, not the glaze.
What should I use on the shower floor instead?
Bejmat, cement tile or a small mosaic. All three are made to be walked on, and all three come in colours that sit with the zellige on the walls.