After taking one look at our master shower, our contractor winced and gently suggested that new tile in the shower would make it a much nicer bathroom. I guess I never paid much attention before that day, but he is right. It is fug. And the shower door is just waiting to cut us.
Here is the shower before:
...and after day one:
This one is looking at the ceiling, which was taken out to install a vent.
We are going to do either carrara or white porcelain subway tiles on the shower walls with black and white hexagonal tiles on the floor. And a light, barely there mint green paint (at left) on the bathroom walls: