North Auburn Primary Bath Rebuild
1990s subdivision home, 9×12 ft primary bath. Removed an unused corner garden tub, expanded the shower into a 4×6 walk-in with frameless glass and sage stone-look porcelain, replaced the vanity with rift oak and honed quartz.
A typical North Auburn primary bath project — 1990s subdivision home with good bones and dated finishes. The original layout had a corner garden tub the homeowner hadn't used in eight years, a small fiberglass shower, oak double vanity, and fluorescent above-mirror lighting.
Plumbing was solid: copper supply, ABS drains, slab pour with the existing layout still working. We didn't need to move walls — the design move was reclaiming the tub corner for a wide walk-in shower.
What we changed
- Removed the corner garden tub entirely; reframed the wall for the new shower
- Built a 4×6 frameless-glass walk-in shower with sage stone-look porcelain floor-to-ceiling, brushed brass rain head, and a built-in horizontal niche
- Replaced the oak double vanity with rift oak floating cabinetry on honed quartz
- Rebuilt lighting around two sconces flanking the mirror plus dimmable recessed cans on a separate switch
- Refreshed the floor tile to a complementary stone-look porcelain
Result
The bathroom reads modern and warm without feeling out of place in the home. Daily use is dramatically better — the walk-in shower replaced the tub the homeowner never used, and the vanity area gained both counter space and storage. Active build was four weeks; pre-build (design lock + materials + permit) was three weeks before that.
