Wooden Soaking Tub Master Bathroom Remodel

The project

How this soaking tub bathroom came together

The goal

The old master bathroom had a dark tile floor, a drop-in tub in a tiled deck under the window and a framed shower with textured glass. The plan was to turn it into a calm, spa-like room built around a deep soaking tub, with an easier walk-in shower and a cleaner vanity wall.

The challenge

The tub deck and the framed shower took up most of the wall by the window. Replacing them meant working out where a freestanding tub, its floor-mounted filler and a larger shower could all sit, while still leaving open floor between them and a clear path to the closet.

The solution

We removed the drop-in tub, its deck and the framed shower. A wooden soaking tub now stands by the window, filled from a floor-mounted spout so nothing has to mount on the window wall, and a wood-look tile accent wall rises behind it. The walk-in shower sits beside the tub behind one fixed glass panel, with no door to swing. Its walls and floor are large gray tile, with a long recessed niche, a bench along one side, a ceiling rain head and a handheld spray on a slide bar. The same large gray tile covers the bathroom floor. On the vanity wall, a floating wood double vanity with a white top hangs under a long lighted mirror, and the toilet now sits in its own small room off the vanity wall.

The result

The dark, closed-in room is now light and open, with the wooden tub as the centerpiece by the window. The walk-in shower has room to move, a place to sit and a niche for everything, the floating vanity leaves the floor visible beneath it, and the toilet room keeps the main space private.

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