This spectacular primary bathroom remodel required creative ingenuity in the design phase, along with precision at the production stage. The clients called for a “mid-century-modern bathroom with four-pointed stars, like one might imagine on a cocktail napkin.”

After exploring various concepts, we arrived at a set of plans and elevations that captured the client’s vision. With the assistance of a master stone-and-tile journeyman, we were able to create a functional space that also inspires. The clients were delighted when we delivered exactly what had been represented. No detail was spared in the design and building process.  We created a shelf extended from a niche to allow the client to set down her morning coffee cup before she slipped into her morning bath.

The client chose all of the finest state-of-the-art plumbing fixtures and accessories for the project. She chose a “smart mirror” to achieve perfect make-up lighting. We also installed recessed, hidden, LED line lighting, part of which was dadoed into the top stone piece at the shower niche, with another hidden in the underside of the tub wall shelf. 

An additional concept of the project was to limit overall in-the-field install time by surfacing the shower and bathtub walls with two-centimeter silestone full-sized slabs (instead of using many pieces of tile.) The shower walls are built from two different colors of man-made stone– a total of five large “Miami White” Silestone slabs. A Computer Numerical Control (CNC) water jet machine cut out the four-pointed stars from both slab colors. (Please see the video below.) We created a "kit of parts" in the shop, then delivered them to the site, and installed them in a short period of time. 

After installing the slabs, the black “Corktown Suede” four-pointed star inserts were inserted into the cut-out spaces.  The four-pointed stars became the centerline of plumbing fixtures for the shower head, thermostatic valve, shower diverter, and tub filler.  Additionally, the stars were all aligned to one another both horizontally and vertically, which created an original and unifying design.  The shower floor sloped pitch toward the longer side of the shower base enclosure in order to direct water toward the “hidden” linear drain at the inside edge of the low-profile shower threshold.

The straight herringbone floor pattern created a great juxtaposition to the monolithic slabs. This pattern continued at the ceiling over the shower area. We were always cognizant that the four-pointed black stars would have repeated reflections in the frameless glass shower enclosure; however, we were serendipitously surprised by the unexpected four-pointed black star reflection appearing in the white silestone.