Renovation Diaries | Primary Bathroom Planning and Design

As part of our renovations, we were able to merge two of the smaller rooms and a sad little 1/2 bath in the back of our house into a new primary suite. While having two bathrooms is a complete luxury, it is something we had in our apartments in previous years and it was definitely a nice to have! While we weren’t redoing our home with the idea of selling, we really upped our home value with three full bedrooms and two full bathrooms.

If you’re a long-time reader, you’ll know I’m quite the beauty enthusiast and you could correctly assume that I have a lot of products and am often testing a lot of things at once. T has put up with the large assortment of products living on our bathroom counter, in our medicine cabinet, and in our shower for the entirety of our relationship (aka more than a decade lol). We decided that for the most part, the primary bathroom would be his and the guest bathroom would be mine. (Just you wait and see how the guest bathroom looks because it is ~dreamy~).

As I mentioned before, we’re really going with a japandi look for our home and this bathroom very heavily leans towards Japanese inspiration.

Our Plans

While we had blocked out a new space for a new primary bathroom, we didn’t have that much space available so we worked with what we could. We’re definitely shower people and wanted a walk in shower for ourselves to use. In the initial brainstorming phase we thought of doing an entire tiled bathroom but this got real costly real fast. In the end, we decided that we love the minimal look and decided to give that zen look by doing a tadelakt shower. This gives a lime plaster finish which looks very cozy to us. T also loved the idea of a seamless transition all around. We decided to do a little ledge where T can store his minimal shower products. We also opted for a little bench in the corner which would be handy if you need to quickly sit and rinse off your feet with the handheld shower hose.

A common theme in many of our inspiration pictures were think vertical tiles + again the color green (no surprise there). As such, we decided to keep this minimal pop of color with some tiles behind our vanity and toilet. Again, we decided to do a little ledge here to give a more minimal looking shelf. I imagine putting a little reed diffuser + candle in the corner above the toilet area and then allowing the lefthand side to maybe store a little cup with our toothbrushes.

Since the room itself was small, we decided to go with a floating vanity so it helped make the space feel a little bit airier. Our vanity will have some beautiful reeded panels that I cannot wait to see IRL!

Stay tuned for the next post where I’ll go more in detail with some of the finishes we chose for this space.

Our inspiration (via Pinterest)

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Interior Designer: @CathieHongInteriors (sketches + materials sourcing)
Architect: @StoryBuildDesign