New Bathrooms for Reno Lover
March, 2019
Mary Lee Keefe is a self-described renovation junkie. She has done many renovations in the past and just completed project number three at her current residence.
She started with a main-floor renovation that quickly evolved into project two – the backyard – because the indoor and outdoor spaces are connected. Her most recent project was the second floor. Three bathrooms, which hadn’t been touched since the family moved in four years ago, were gutted and redesigned. “It was time to get them done,” she says. Also, there was carpet upstairs, and that had to go. “The bathrooms were fine but not functional. We decided to do it all at once.”
Plans were to “step up” the ensuite bathroom. “The previous owners had prettied it up” she says, “but the soaker tub was so big it would empty the hot water tank to fill it and in a few minutes the water would be cold.”
That tub had also been installed incorrectly. Mary Lee says the shower was at one end and the faucets were at the other, and there was no place to hang a shower curtain. However the tub had a sunny location under a skylight, the perfect spot for a new washing area that includes a smaller tub behind a half wall to separate it from the vanity and an enclosure-free shower with a bench. “Because the bathroom was so large, we could do the shower without a glass enclosure,” says Amedeo Barbini of Barbini Design Build. “An enclosure keeps water inside a small space. For an open shower, you need an area at least six by eight feet.”
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