Location
Bellevue, WA
Bellevue · WA
A dated Bellevue master bathroom on the Eastside, taken down to the studs and rebuilt into a private master suite and a brand-new guest powder room — a full gut remodel completed in about eight weeks.
The original master bathroom in this Bellevue home was large but dated and inefficient — a single oversized room doing one job, with worn finishes and original plumbing and wiring well past their service life.
Instead of refreshing it in place, we reworked the plan from the ground up. Our goal was to add usable rooms and lasting value without changing the home's footprint — exactly the kind of high-impact bathroom remodel that pays off for Eastside homeowners. We framed a new wall down the center of the existing bathroom and split it into two distinct rooms, then annexed an adjoining bedroom closet to give the new master more breathing room.
The payoff is two functional spaces where there had only been one: a private owner's bath built for daily use, and a dedicated guest powder room that simply didn't exist before. For a Bellevue property, that extra half-bath and the improved layout translate directly into everyday livability and resale appeal.
Behind the finishes, both rooms were rebuilt from the frame out — new plumbing, new electrical, fresh insulation, full waterproofing, and radiant heated floors. Every stage was permitted and inspected before the walls were closed, and the entire project was completed in roughly eight weeks at an investment of about $60,000.
We chose finishes that read clean and modern but are built to hold up — classic white subway tile, matte-black fixtures, warm walnut cabinetry, and a charcoal hexagon floor, with a mid-century-inspired accent wall in the powder room.
A full gut bathroom remodel is as much about what happens behind the walls as the finishes you see. Here's how the eight-week build came together.
We stripped the old bathroom to its studs and subfloor — out went the cast-iron tub, the dated tile, the aging fixtures, and the original knob-and-tube-era wiring and galvanized plumbing.
In an older Bellevue home, taking a room down to the bones is the only honest way to start. It exposed exactly what we were working with, let us address hidden wear before it became a problem, and gave us a clean slate to re-plan the layout from scratch.
A new wall framed down the center divided the space into two rooms, and the reclaimed bedroom closet grew the master. From there we re-framed the openings, ran all-new plumbing and electrical for both bathrooms, set the shower pan and layout, and packed the walls with fresh insulation.
Permits were pulled for the structural, plumbing, and electrical work, and the project passed inspection at every stage — framing, rough-in, and more — before anything was closed up behind drywall. It's the unglamorous part of a remodel that protects the investment for the long haul.
With the rooms drywalled and primed, the finish work brought it all together: tile throughout, frameless glass, custom built-in shelving and cabinetry, radiant heated floors, TOTO toilets, a backlit custom mirror, waterproof wallpaper, and clean finish trim and paint.
Every detail was carried consistently across both rooms so the new master and the new powder room feel like one cohesive, finished design — not two separate projects.
The transformation from a single dated bathroom to a refined master suite and a separate guest powder room.
A complete, take-it-to-the-studs bathroom renovation covering structure, systems, surfaces, and permitting.
Bellevue is one of the Eastside's most desirable cities, with a mix of mid-century and well-built established homes — many with great bones but dated, original bathrooms that no longer match how people live or the value of the homes around them.
Splitting one oversized master bath into a dedicated master suite plus a separate guest powder room is exactly the type of layout improvement that adds a usable room and meaningful resale value without expanding the home's footprint or foundation. Add a second toilet, modernize the plumbing and electrical, and finish it with durable materials, and you've meaningfully improved both daily livability and long-term value.
We bring the same value-driven, fully permitted approach to bathroom remodels and whole-home renovations for homeowners across Bellevue and the Eastside — including Kirkland, Redmond, Newcastle, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Bothell, Kenmore, and Woodinville — as well as greater Seattle.
A private owner's bathroom finished in white subway tile and matte-black fixtures over a charcoal hexagon floor, with a frameless glass walk-in shower, walnut vanity, custom backlit mirror, and a tiled storage niche. Radiant heated floors underfoot, and a layout that finally works for everyday life.
Carved from the same footprint: a warm, mid-century-inspired waterproof wallpaper feature wall, a walnut vanity with a quartz top, a framed oval mirror, and a sleek one-piece TOTO — a polished, low-maintenance space made just for guests.
We take bathrooms — and whole homes — from dated to done: re-planned where it counts, fully permitted, and built to hold long-term value across Bellevue, the Eastside, and greater Seattle.