How Do You Thrill A Teenage Boy?

PLAN



  Give him his own bathroom. Okay we’re pretty sure it’s not #1 on his wish list, but it may rank within the top 10. Once a Jack-n-Jill bathroom shared with his sister, we reconfigured the layout to create a private bathroom for the homeowner’s 14 year old son. The original shower and toilet room was partitioned off from the sink areas. We simply removed those walls, closed up the hall to the sister’s bedroom, which became her new walk-in closet, and created one large space, adding a floor to ceiling linen cabinet in the empty space next to the toilet for oodles of extra storage.

 

BEFORE

 

The tile selections were inspired from one of our website gallery bathrooms that the homeowner’s saw and loved. Dark “Bedrosin” 12” x 24” tile flooring was laid in a subway pattern with chocolate colored grout. The shower floor is a mosaic 2”x2” travertine, walls ZERA Walnut 12” x 24” tile laid vertically. To add visual interest one stripe of glass & stone mosaic was laid on one end of the wall and inside the soap niche. The 4’ x 5’ shower is enclosed with a Euro Frameless glass floor to ceiling panel and door. And what’s fair is fair, a 14” Kohler Rain Shower Head was installed, mimicking his sister’s new bathroom. We’re told this is one of his most favorite features.

 
For additional masculine elements the Hutton Collection espresso colored vanity with Italian Crema Marble top, and Dillon Collection sconces & towel bars are from Restoration Hardware. When designing a bathroom for a teenager, it makes sense that the space will grow with them.