Vancouver Primary Bathroom Addition

We handled the engineering and permits for the entire addition, bathroom included, with the City of Vancouver. We removed the garage roof over this part of the house and built the new floor on the garage walls. To bring it level with the rest of the second story, we took the top plates off the garage walls, cut every stud 3/4 inch shorter, reinstalled the plates and set new floor joists on top. The bathroom now meets the bedroom flush, with no step.

A raised platform of silver honed travertine holds the shower and the tub as one wet area. A single glass wall separates it from the vanity, with no shower door and no curb between the shower and the tub. LED lighting tucked under the platform's edge makes it look like it floats. In the shower, limestone tile runs to the vaulted ceiling, with a matte black rain showerhead, a handheld shower, a long recessed niche and a linear drain.

Natural stone is far less forgiving than porcelain. Every piece of travertine and limestone varies slightly in size, thickness and color, so each one was laid out, cut and set by hand: the travertine kept flat and even across the floor, up the platform edge and into the shower, and the limestone stacked in straight vertical lines up the vaulted walls and around the niche and window. It's the slowest kind of tile to install well, and the reason the room looks seamless.

Beside the shower sits a fluted ANZZI tub with water and air jets and built-in lights, filled from a matte black deck-mounted faucet with a handheld sprayer. Above it, a floating wood shelf with LED lighting underneath matches the vanity across the room.

The custom 96-inch floating vanity has a quartz top with two Eridanus Eclipse matte black vessel sinks and Bathadore waterfall faucets, set against a limestone backsplash. Two arched mirrors glow from behind and have built-in anti-fog, and LED lighting under the vanity washes the travertine floor. The toilet sits in its own private water closet, with Moen matte black towel bar and toilet paper holder.

Heated floors run under the entire room, platform included. A recessed LED channel across the vaulted ceiling, recessed lights and the under-lit platform, vanity and shelf let the room go from bright morning light to a soft evening glow. A wide cased opening connects the bathroom to the bedroom, with no door. The original master bath was closed off from the suite and now serves the kids' side of the house.