Bathroom Design including Bathroom Tile Design, Walk In Shower Design, Bathroom and Shower Design Services
We design and build bathrooms. We look forward to beginning your design when you contact us by e-mail or call us at the above number.
Bathroom and Shower Design Services
If you are tentative about proceeding with your bathroom or shower design, or would appreciate professional assistance, you may want to inquire about our Bathroom and Shower Design Services. We have a fee based arrangement with a very gifted designer that can not only provide professional assistance, but can provide you unique designs to fulfull your dreams. See Design Services for different services that are available.
Your View of Bathroom Design
We start with your view of bathroom design, which may just be the answer to the question "What do you want to do?" What do you mean by bathroom design? Some think of the floor layout as in where the cabinetry and commode may be located. Some think of bathroom design as the selection of the cabinetry, fixtures, countertops, and perhaps the color scheme. Some consider moving walls, including other space in the design, pulling soffits, or a header from the top of a shower. Others just want a larger shower or to replace a tub with a shower. Some think of just replacing the tile, and some want to upgrade to marble. Those that primarily just want to replace the tile think of the selection of the tile, perhaps listellos or decos as the design. Others consider the bathroom dated and just want it to be stunning. All of these views are valid and will be considered by us.
Your Bathroom Style
We consider your visual design views. A taxonomy of bathroom styles in the United States could be viewed as headed by Country, Contemporary, and Traditional, with the most divisions under traditional. Many of the new bathrooms are purely contemporary. However, historically, most of the bathrooms in this country are neither cleanly contemporary or traditional, but generally contemporary with traditional touches providing the visual design influences of the homeowner or the builder. We usually do not get a request to provide a purely traditional style. In fact, although there are many retro fixtures and furnishings available, they are generally applied to contemporary styles. Most of the new fixtures and furnishings are either futuristic or contemporary.
Bathroom Design
Separate from your needs and your vision, we will consider many other design issues. The biggest single design issue we will consider while formulating your design, is how the water issues will be dealt with, using good engineering and experience. For example, you may want a walk-in shower. That can mean a shower without a door, which immediately implies to us the minimum size of the shower, and then the question is whether we can lay out your bathroom to provide that size shower in your space. You may mean a shower with no curb or threshhold. We have remodeled bathrooms for wheelchair access where there was no curb at all. This means that the area lined to hold water is even larger, and the floor has to slope toward the drain, providing us with another set of design tenets to work with. As part of the design process at that point is where does the floor slope down from, and does the floor have to slope up before it arrives at that point?
We are going to consider many other design constraints, including whether the work you are proposing or we might propose, meets your local building code. We will make many decisions and look to you primarily for your functional requirements and your visual design views.
Bathroom Design in Small Bathrooms
Whether you have a modest home, a mansion, a very small bathroom or a large bathroom, the same design, tile and workmanship issues apply. You may wish to go see a small bathroom remodel. Note the beautiful colors at the left with the brushed-nickle fixtures and how the deep-cut listello below matches the bold vanity and oil-rubbed bronze fixtures.
Bathroom Tile Design
For the last several years, larger tile, many that look like stone have been used. Many people have used glass as inserts for flash or appeal. A design can be about as complex as you can dream, from mosaics of landscapes to spacecraft shots. Offsetting the tile or laying them on a diagonal gives interesting appeal. Remember that the smaller the space the less likely complicated designs will be seen or appreciated. You should scale your visual designs and complexity to the size of the room.
Here you will see both straight and diagonal tiling used in combination. In the dark field in the shower below, a light listello was used. In the light field around the tub above, a dark listello was used. In the shower below there are glass inserts, both as decos and within the listello. In the shower above, two types of glass was used to create an appealing design.
This is a bathroom where the customers knew the type of design they wanted and it came out very nice.
This is another shower in ceramic with a stone look enhanced by a stone as listello. Very nice.
These four pictures show bathroom tile design in the shower and around the tub, including a very nice knee wall. This is a good illustration of how a medium sized bathroom can be improved.
Walk In Shower Design
There is no telling how many walk-in-showers, (what we call a stand-alone, or a regular shower), that we have built or rebuilt over the years. You may wish to look at some of our work by seeing the "Bathroom Pictures" under "Home" above. We have also built many showers without threshholds for both wheelchair access and just to allow pleasureable access without shower doors. Unfortunately we did not take pictures but for a small fraction of them. 
See how a design in your walk in shower can really jazz up a small bathroom
Here is another beautiful design in a walk in shower in a medium sized bathroom.
A Contemporary Bathroom Design with an Island touch
A neat shower design was an open shower in the corner of a large bath with no shower walls at all. There was a large sloping threshhold to contain the water (except exuberant splashes). That worked very well.
Bathroom Pricing and Qualifying Potential Contractors
One of the things we have tried to do throughout this site is provide information that is truly useful for the homeowner. You will find information about bathroom pricing, the type of contractor to select and how to check out and select your contractor using the "Remodeling Process" under "Home" above. You may go through this process to actually do it, or you may go through the process just to learn about bathroom pricing and contracting. At one point in the process, if you actually do it, we recommend asking some "How do you do it" questions to find out something of the competency level of contractors and to assist in your feeling of whether you trust their answers. In Bathroom Remodeling, you will learn the importance you must place upon your contractor to handle water issues. Whether you are going to use stone, marble, creek rock, porcelein or ceramic, you will learn important information about properly preparing and using those materials in bathroom tile.