1930s Colonial Bathroom Remodel

My clients had one bathroom for their cute 1930s colonial in a historic neighbor hood and it wasn’t working very hard for them. Style wise we knew exactly what we wanted to do…something timeless and classic. More importantly this bathroom needed to work hard for a small family and needed to make sense. Yet we had to be thoughtful about all we needed because space was limited. It was time to take this bathroom that had been covered and up and painted in the 80s into the modern era… yet make it look like it fit a house 75 years old.

The toilet at the front of the room was keeping this bathroom from maximizing storage space and two people standing at the counter at the same time.

The counter was under the sloped part of the roof. No one is going to stand there. The tile platform always just trapped pools of water. Yet, the laundry shoot was definitely something we wanted to keep.

The tile…. lets mourn the tile. We were going to keep it until we found out it wasn’t behind that weird water platform.

Demo ended up being a beast when we found out there was tile behind the painted paneling (that had been painted one too many times).

First thing first…. move the toilet.

We decided to wall off the shower yet keep a little nook so the homeowners could get to the laundry shoot.

The homeowners had always wanted a herringbone shower. It was a little tricking up the angle to match the pattern so we bordered it with the same tile and let it be its own thing.

Finally, the vanity. We only had room for a 48″ vanity. There is such a thing as a 48″ double vanity but you basically have no counter space. The homeowner wanted counter space for getting ready so we decided instead of the second sink to do an asymmetrical sink to the left side. We had the vanity custom built by James Wesley Furniture.

Lets take a minute to look at all that storage. It turned out perfect! This hardworking bathroom went from old and worn to bright and timeless.

The countertop is a marble resin countertop. It is marble but it is finished in a way that is not porous. It is not quite as expensive as marble but a little pricer than quartz.