Issaquah · Bathroom remodel
The Patel Bathroom
A vaulted beige box on the Montreux hillside finally turns to face the firs — book-matched marble, black steel, and a wall of glass.
- Location
- Issaquah, WA
- Project
- Bathroom remodel
- Delivery
- Design–build, in-house crews
- Designed in
- Photorealistic 3D, before the build
The family
The Patels bought their Montreux house for the view: second-growth firs off the back of the lot, Tiger Mountain behind them. The primary bath had all the square footage it needed to make something of that and did nothing with it — a vaulted beige room with an oak vanity, a corner shower stall, a garden tub parked under a small obscured-glass slider, and a wall of bifold closet doors. Their problem was never space. It was that the one window in the room was doing everything it could to hide the trees.
So we turned the room to face them. The tub deck and the slider came out and a black-steel picture window went in, with a freestanding soaking tub in front of it. The oak vanity became one floating slab of book-matched warm gray marble down the left wall, the corner stall became a frameless glass shower that keeps the sightline open from the doorway to the woods, and the bifold closet became blackened oak built-ins with the linen storage hidden below. We traded the empty vault for a tray ceiling with cove lighting, and made every fixture in the room indirect — cove, under-vanity, mirror-backlit — so at dusk nothing competes with that window.
Dramatic, modern, and unmistakably Pacific Northwest: a room that finally admits what's outside it.
The transformation
Before & after
Where the Patels started, and where they ended up.
The design
Every finish chosen before a single tile was ordered.
We render the room in photorealistic 3D and build the material palette first, so the Patels approved the finished bathroom before demolition started.
The build
Built by our own crews.
The same people from the first sketch to the final walkthrough — no subcontracted mystery, no handoffs where the design gets lost.
The spec
The finishes
- 01Book-matched warm gray marble slab walls
- 02Floating double vanity in matching marble with a blackened base
- 03Large-format warm gray stone-look tile flooring
- 04Black-steel picture window over the tub
- 05Freestanding matte white soaking tub
- 06Brass floor-mounted tub filler
- 07Frameless glass shower with rain head and hand shower
- 08Matte-black faucets and shower fittings
- 09Blackened oak built-ins with hidden linen storage
- 10Mirror-backlit, cove & under-vanity lighting throughout
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