What We Did
Both bathrooms at Silverton were rebuilt. The hall bath went from stripped framing to a finished room with a tiled tub surround, new vanity, and new fixtures.
The photographs trace the whole arc. The before shots show the baths stripped for demolition; the progress photograph shows the basement bath at the post-demo stage, taken down to cement board and framing; and the after shots show finished rooms, the tub surround fully tiled in white subway tile, grouted and clean, waiting only for hardware.
Downstairs, a dated basement bath was demolished and rebuilt as a clean, functional second bathroom, and a hall bath closet was rebuilt along with it. A second full bathroom changes how a house works for a family: mornings stop being a negotiation, guests stop being a problem, and the house serves a household instead of testing it.
Bathrooms are the most failure-prone rooms in any house, because water finds every shortcut. That is why our bathroom work always goes back to the substrate: cement board behind the tile, new plumbing connections behind the fixtures, and proper waterproofing at the wet edges, rather than new surfaces over old problems. It is slower and it costs more on the front end, and it is the reason the room still works in fifteen years. Silverton got two bathrooms built that way, which is two rooms the next family will never have to think about, in a home priced at or near what the work cost.
