Primary suite
This room was originally a slab-on-grade patio to the home and the original owners framed it into the house for additional square footage and used it as a family and dining space. When I first put my eyes on it I knew this was going to be our primary suite (with a lot of work, but nonetheless!). Much like the Living Room I knew this space had trusses in the ceiling so I wanted to vault this ceiling as well to take advantage of the additional height.
I started in Chief Architect and dimensioned out the size of the bathroom and WIC to determine how much square footage I would have for the bedroom. I found that I had more than enough space to be able to integrate a proper cast iron claw foot tub (Kohler just kills it with their free standing tubs! So good.) and another smaller wood burning stove.
We have a few steps that go down to the bedroom, naturally, they were steps that originally led into the home, so it was another great opportunity to transition back to the herringbone COREtec floors…but not before A LOT of self-leveler; this floor was 4” out of level 😳 and to add to the complication, we had to form out the area that was getting tile, as the mud and thin set would be used to bring the tile to the exact level of the floor. Through good communication and double checking our measurements we pulled it off flawlessly - big thanks to John Whritner for going through this with me multiple times to make sure we got it right!
The ceiling in this room was another space I knew I wanted to add wallpaper too, I love the color, pattern and movement it introduces to a space, and Hygge & West’s Daydream was the perfect design for the space. Because I very purposely went with white walls everywhere and had the floors grounded in a natural oak the ceilings led themselves to adding that color to the room.
Moving to the en-suite bath, this is the only fully tiled bathroom in the house. I selected a great large format (24x48) slate look porcelain from Garden State Tile that has a very rustic feel to it, and then transitioned to a mesh-mounted river rock for the shower (flat on the floor and vertical cut on the walls) to further accentuate that rustic feel. Then to add that layer of refinement back in I selected all Kohler fixtures (even the vanity) throughout the bath. I absolutely love Kohler’ hydro rail for the shower, as the added piping on the exterior of the wall shows off more of the fixture in a very sculptural way; I love functional art.
Lastly, from a comfort standpoint, I installed a NuHeat electric floor mat in the bathroom and shower areas of the en-suite. Because this room is slab on grade it transfers a lot more cold from the earth right into the slab, which would make for a very cold bathroom floor. NuHeat gives me the ability to heat just that one room through a custom cut (they also offer a lot of standard sizes) mat that runs on a dedicated 20amp circuit with its own Wi-Fi enabled thermostat. And because warm towels are just as nice as warm feet, I also added a Runthal towel warmer. The towel warmer really pulls double duty, as it not only heats the space and your towel, but it also dries your towels post-shower very quickly thereby eliminating that damp, dirty water smell and extending the useful life of the towel between washes.