Botanical Reverie Bathroom REX Award Winner

REX Award

The Remodelers Council hosted its annual Awards banquet, the REX/T-REX Awards, on April 25. It’s an industry celebration honoring the best projects by local remodelers and tradespeople. We are proud to share that we won an award in this year's contest for a beautiful secondary full bathroom remodel.

Partnership

Working with Kirsten Conner and her firm, Kirsten Conner Interior Design, she designed beautiful, functional, and detailed plans for our award-winning work. Her plans won at this year’s REX Awards. They made it easy for the SHP team to build out an amazing, detailed secondary bathroom on the main floor.

Botanical Reverie

A recently purchased 1920s-era craftsman home in Seattle's Central District underwent a full down-to-studs remodel of a secondary bathroom on the main floor. Previous DIY owners did a hatchet job, installing a mirror askew, providing inadequate lighting, and installing a dangerous cast-iron tub with a freestanding shower spout.

Our firm was called in to create a bathroom that incorporated a no-threshold shower for guest safety, adequate grooming lighting, grab bars, and an inviting, lovely, luxe showering experience. The concept was Botanical Reverie, as the owner wanted to bring the backyard garden into the house.

We based the palette around a novel product, a botanical waterproof wallpaper system from Italy’s Wall & Deco. The wallpaper serves as a mural, creating the backdrop for one wall of the bathroom. This mural was also visible from the adjacent sitting area, which doubled as a sleeper sofa for guests.

One requirement was lighting for an owner’s makeup application, so we installed a Robern AIO Reserve medicine cabinet with tunable color temperature and perimeter lighting. The bathtub was removed. The botanical wallpaper motif, complemented by the strong veining in a Taj Mahal slab and a green tile backsplash, tied the bathroom to the exterior deck and the backyard garden beyond.

Rift-cut oak cabinets and large-format cladding worked together as neutrals to complement the mural. The large-format tile was chosen to eliminate grout lines, and a matching smaller size created an anti-slip pattern on the shower floor. We maximized storage under the sink by customizing a drawer to closely wrap around the sink’s P-trap.

Before

After

One challenge was incorporating a broom closet (alongside the mural), so we created a 66” stepped cabinet and visually united it by using a cascading slab down its side. Another challenge was creating a smooth substrate drywall for our wallpaper installer to apply the paper with multiple sealant passes. We created two niches (one pictured) to hide unsightly bottles and soap out of eye view.

The owner loves showering in her light-filled space and appreciates the absence of grout lines to clean.

Thank Yous

Thank you to the REX Award Remodelers Council and to our great partner, Kirsten Conner, for her outstanding design plans and ideas. We also want to thank our client for the honor of working in their home and helping them achieve their dream bathroom. Finally, we want to thank our SHP team of carpenters and coordinators, who worked hard on this project, as they do on all our projects. We had a fun evening celebrating at the REX Awards!

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