Bathroom Remodels North Seattle
Two bathrooms in one house, finished differently on purpose — a primary in stacked green tile and brushed brass, and a compact second bath kept deliberately plain.
A small bathroom that doesn’t read as small
Bathrooms in North Seattle’s mid-century housing stock tend to be narrow rooms with a single window and a bath at the far end. The usual instinct is to rip the bath out for a shower, which buys floor space and loses resale value.
The primary keeps the bath and puts a fluted glass panel over it instead of a curtain or a framed screen. The room stays open end to end, the tile is visible through the glass rather than hidden behind fabric, and the bath is still there for anyone who wants it.
Every trade on this build was carried out by licensed professionals working under contract with Anyvision, and permitted under WA Lic #ANYVIHR768KB.
North Seattle · 2025
Taking the bath out buys floor space and loses resale value. Putting glass over it buys the same feeling of openness and keeps both.Anyvision Home Remodeling · WA Lic #ANYVIHR768KB
Shower Over Bath, in Glass
A fixed fluted glass panel replaces a curtain or a framed screen. Sightlines run the full length of the room, and the tile stays visible instead of being hidden.
The tile is set in a stacked vertical pattern rather than the usual offset brick bond, which draws the eye up and makes a low ceiling feel higher than it is.
Plumbing rough-in was inspected in sequence before the walls closed — the phase that decides how a wet room looks in five years.
Bright, Plain, Properly Finished
A dark hex tile floor does the only decorative work in the room, against white walls and a white vanity.
Small floors are where a pattern reads best. In a room this size it is the one surface you take in whole.
Brass, Wood and Green Tile
Brushed brass runs through every fitting — rainfall head, handheld, controls, tapware and the niche trim. One warm metal, repeated.
A wood vanity carries that warmth down to floor level, which is what stops a fully tiled room reading cold in a house that only gets direct sun for part of the day.
The Plain One
The second bathroom went the other way: white surround, white vanity, matte black fittings, and a dark hex tile floor doing the only decorative work in the room.
Not every bathroom in a house needs to be a feature. A guest bath that is bright, easy to clean and finished properly is worth more than a second attempt at a statement.
Where the Budget Went, and Didn’t
A Curved Surround, Fitted Properly
The second bath uses a moulded surround rather than tile — faster to fit, nothing to grout, and genuinely easier to keep clean in a bathroom that gets used by guests rather than daily.
Spending the tile budget on the primary and finishing the second bath simply is a deliberate allocation, not a compromise. Both rooms are new; only one of them needed to be a feature.
Hear It From the Homeowner
The homeowner on working with Anyvision.
Both bathrooms, end to end.
Doing More Than One Bathroom?
Running them under one scope means one set of material decisions and one inspection sequence. We respond to every new inquiry within 24 hours.