Seattle · Magnolia
Renovating in Magnolia.
Magnolia bathrooms are almost always smaller than the house deserves.
Big lots, generous living rooms, and then a hall bath laid out when one was enough for everybody. The work here is rarely about adding square feet. It is about spending the ones you have properly: where the glass goes, how deep the vanity really needs to be, and whether the window can stay.
The Magnolia bathroom, in pale green and brass.
Stacked tile to the ceiling, a glass screen instead of a door so the room keeps its length, a walnut vanity with an arched mirror above it, and open marble shelves on brass brackets where a cabinet would have closed the wall in.
What decides a Magnolia bathroom
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Waterproofing, before anything pretty
The tile is the last decision and the least important one. What sits behind it is the reason the room is still right in fifteen years.
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Keeping the window
Almost always worth it. A bathroom with daylight does not need to be big, and a bathroom without it never feels finished however much you spend.
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The vanity depth nobody questions
Standard is deeper than most people need. Two inches back is often the difference between a room you edge around and one you walk through.
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The floor under the old floor
A slow leak does not announce itself. It shows up as a soft patch the day the old tile lifts, and it is the most common surprise in a house of this age.
Magnolia is a Seattle address, so it is a Seattle permit.
Move plumbing, a wall or a circuit and the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections wants one. We pull it, the fee is in the quote, and the review time is on the schedule rather than in a phone call later.
Fifteen minutes from Magnolia there is a room with your tile in it, full size.
920 Dexter Ave N, Monday to Friday. Bring the floor plan if you have one and photographs if you do not. That is enough for us to tell you what the room can actually become.