Steve wrote:
Been researching bathroom tile installations for a new bathroom I would
like
to create in my house. Would anyone care to comment on some of the
statements
I have accepted as truth from my research:

1. Alcove tub/shower with tiled walls: Use a vapor barrier, 1/2" CBU,
and thinset. This is the second best option, but first for homeowner
timid about floating a mortar bed.

I agree


2. Tub/shower ceiling: Use green board and a high quality latex paint

I would expand this to any drywall you replace in the bathroom.


3. Tub/shower ceiling: Marble tile on ceiling - Can't be done safely
by inexperienced homeowner.

Why not? I've never used marble other than a threshhold here & there.
Does it require a special adhesive?


4. Bathroom walls: Greenboard is better than blueboard/plaster.

I'm not so sure but I always put the green stuff in a bathroom cuz, um,
cuz...
THEY say we have to use it.


5. If alcove tub tiles flange out of alcove to exterior face (for
decorative purposes) it is OK to mount these tiles on
blueboard/greenboard.

I agree


Good luck.