Primary suites, powder rooms and everything in between.
Bathrooms are where Hinsdale's two kinds of house differ most. A Robbins Park original was built with small bathrooms fitted into a plan that never expected them, while a new build usually has generous ones finished in whatever the builder's package allowed. One needs space found. The other needs character added.
We design Hinsdale bathroom remodeling projects in full detail, with fixture layouts, tile drawings and vanity elevations finished before anything is ordered, and we coordinate those drawings with your architect, builder and trades so what gets built is what was drawn.
A bathroom carries more trades per square foot than any other room, so nothing is left to be decided on site.
Toilet, vanity, shower and tub placed against the plumbing you have and the clearances the room needs, with door swings resolved.
Pattern, starting points, niche alignment and every cut line drawn, so the tile setter is building rather than designing.
Built to the room, including the awkward alcoves older houses are full of, with drawers planned for what actually lives there.
Slabs and tile selected in person, with edge profiles and thresholds specified.
Faucets, shower trim, lighting and hardware chosen as one coordinated set of finishes.
Face-level light at the mirror, dimmable layers overhead, and ventilation sized for the room.
Hinsdale's Queen Anne, Victorian and Tudor houses were designed with one bathroom, sometimes none, and every bathroom since has been fitted into a closet, a back bedroom or the space under the eaves. The result is often a primary bath far too small for the house it serves.
The answer is usually found in the plan rather than the finishes. Borrowing a closet, reworking a hallway or combining a small bath with the room beside it can produce a primary suite with a proper shower and two sinks, all inside the house and without touching the historic exterior.
Older houses also keep secrets under the floor. On a century-old Chicago home we worked on, the contractors gutted the primary bathroom and found the floor had been insulated with sand, and carried it down the stairs by the bucket. The hard part is usually the interesting part, which is why we plan older bathrooms expecting demolition to reveal something.
The space is usually found in the plan, not the finishes.
New construction gets the space right and the character wrong. The primary bath is large and bright, and it is finished in the same porcelain tile and stock vanity as every other house the builder has delivered.
Coming in during framing changes that. Vanity walls can be blocked for sconces at face level, a niche can be framed where the tile layout wants it rather than wherever it happened to land, and plumbing can be placed so a freestanding tub sits centered on a window instead of beside it.
New construction gets the space right and the character wrong.
A walk through your home tells us whether your bathroom needs a remodel, or finishing and styling.
Five stages take a Hinsdale bathroom renovation from the first plan to install day. Bring us in at the first one, and we can shape every stage that follows.
Before anything is chosen, we plan where the shower, vanity, toilet and tub go, what space can be borrowed from the rooms next door, and the clearances the room needs.
What we deliverFloor plan and fixture layout.
Tile, stone, vanity, fittings and lighting are chosen together, in person, so the metals and finishes read as one set.
What we deliverTile drawings, vanity elevations and fixture specifications.
Custom vanities, stone and fittings carry lead times, and the fixtures set the plumbing rough-in dimensions, so they are ordered before demolition.
What we deliverEvery order placed and confirmed against the drawings.
Your builder or contractor and tile setter build from our drawings. We stay involved so niche locations, blocking for sconces and tile cuts are right the first time.
What we deliverSite meetings and answers for the trades.
Mirrors, towels, art and accessories go in last, placed by our team, so the room is finished rather than just complete.
What we deliverStyling and the final install day.
The powder room is the one room in a Hinsdale house that every guest spends time in alone, and it is small enough to commit fully to an idea. It is where the lacquered wall, the hand-painted wallcovering and the stone you would never put in a kitchen all belong.
Don't keep it neutral in the hope it will never date. A bold powder room tells people something about who lives in the house, which is exactly what so many beautiful, expensive homes forget to do.
Not every Hinsdale bathroom needs to be gutted. The question is whether the problem is the plan or the layers that finish the room, and that decides which of our two services fits.
Many Hinsdale bathrooms need a little of both, and we will tell you plainly which. It is better to know that before you choose a single tile.
Bathrooms and powder rooms from recent projects across the western suburbs. See more in the full portfolio.
Every room asks a different question. See how we approach each one, starting in Hinsdale.
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Often, yes. The space usually comes from the plan: a neighboring closet, part of a hallway or a small adjoining room. We work it out on the floor plan with your architect before any finishes are chosen, and keep the changes inside the house so the historic exterior is left alone.
During framing. That is when blocking for sconces, niche locations and plumbing positions can still be set to match the design, rather than being worked around after drywall.
Yes. Every tiled surface is drawn with its pattern, starting point, niche alignment and cut locations before installation, so the tile setter builds from a drawing rather than making design decisions on site.
Plan first, then build. A Hinsdale bathroom remodel runs from the layout, to selections for tile, stone, vanity and fittings, to ordering, then construction, and finally installation and styling. Fixture choices set the plumbing rough-in dimensions, so they are made before demolition.
Three things: lighting the room only from the ceiling, leaving the tile layout to be worked out on site, and choosing everything so it never dates. Downlights alone cast shadows at the mirror, undrawn tile leaves awkward cuts, and a bathroom designed only to be safe looks like every other one.
At face level first. Sconces beside the mirror or a diffused fixture above it light a face evenly, while ceiling downlights alone cast shadows under the eyes. We add dimmable overhead layers on top of that.
We think it is the best place for one. It is small, used briefly and seen by every guest, so a dramatic wallcovering, lacquered wall or statement stone reads as confident rather than overwhelming.
Yes. Fixture specifications, rough-in dimensions and tile drawings go to your builder and trades, and we stay involved through construction so questions are answered before they become built mistakes.
Tell us about your home and how you want to live in it. We will walk you through our design process and what working together looks like.
