This is probably our favourite bathroom renovation to date. We are thrilled with how it turned out and in love with our design choices and the blend of modern and rustic elements.

In a beautiful country home built in the early 1990s, nestled in 50 wooded acres north east of Toronto, this 2nd floor, main bathroom was original and needed to be completely redone.

It was terribly outdated with it’s square white tiles on the floor and walls. It’s oversized tub (36 inches wide and 72 inches long) and large linen closet weren’t an effective use of space, especially for the plans our clients had for the space.

The toilet, which was interesting in shape, was too low to use comfortably and the vanity was showing it’s age.

In addition to the bathroom desperately needing a makeover, our clients wanted to move their laundry facilities up to the second floor from the basement and use that basement space to enlarge their home gym (we will showcase that in an upcoming post).

So, literally, everything had to go.

Completely gutting the bathroom gave us the opportunity to redesign everything. We replaced the tub with a standard 60 inch size which allowed us to expand the closet to accommodate beautiful new stackable laundry machines. Our electrician did an amazing job running power for the new washer and dryer up through the walls from the panel in basement.

We chose a classic large format white subway tile for the tub end walls and a gorgeous Italian porcelain wood look tile for the back tub surround wall and the floor.

Opening up the walls gave us the opportunity to install a pocket door which made accessing the new laundry machines much easier and rather than have a laundry door that swung our into the room, we built a fabulous barndoor to hide the machines when not in use.

We rescued a leftover beam from the barn and with some love and attention, we were able to repurpose it over the tub to accommodate the barn door track.

A new 60 inch double vanity (with a custom hole between the sinks for trash), a modern one-piece toilet, new light fixtures and a large, deep mirror completed the transformation.

In our opinion, this new bathroom is stunning: