A returning client, a quiet retreat, and a bathroom designed to feel like the end of the day

When clients come back to us after a major project, it's the best compliment we can get. These Aledo homeowners first trusted us with their kitchen remodel. When the kitchen was finished, they asked us to start on the bathrooms. We did three: this master suite and two guest baths, which have their own pages. The master bath was the most personal of the three. The goal was a room that feels calm the moment you walk in and works hard behind the scenes.

Where we started

The original bath was a product of its era: warm yellow walls, travertine on the shower and floor, a drop-in tub on a platform, and a vaulted ceiling that made the space feel tall but not intimate.

The wet room

The centerpiece is a curbless shower and freestanding soaking tub sharing a single glass-enclosed space. There's no threshold to step over. To make that work, we re-poured the concrete substrate to create the slope, relocated both the shower and tub drains, and set a linear drain so the floor can stay nearly flat. The whole wet area is fully waterproofed with a pan liner, which is the unglamorous work that keeps a room like this beautiful for decades.

We lowered the ceiling over the tub and shower by two feet. In a tall room, this is one of the most effective design moves available. The wet room feels cocooned and warm, like a space within the space, and the vaulted volume stays intact everywhere else. The lowered ceiling is tiled, so the shower reads as one seamless, wrapped volume.

A custom extended glass glider encloses the space. It lets the room's light pass through, and it opens wide enough that the tub and shower feel like one gesture.

The material palette

We wanted the room to feel like a spa rather than a showroom, so we limited the palette to a few honest materials and let texture do the work.

• Large-format porcelain. The shower and tub walls are 24x48 matte porcelain in a soft, stony tone. The big format means fewer grout lines and a calmer surface.

• Vertical Wood Look tile. Warm, linear Wood Look tile adds an organic counterpoint to the cool stone. We used it inside the lighted shower niches and on the accent wall behind the toilet, set vertically to draw the eye upward and echo the height of the room.

• Glazed 6x24 tile. A glazed vertical wall and the tub floor add a subtle shift in sheen and scale without breaking the quiet palette.

• Pebble stone underfoot. In the wet area, Botany Sliced Stones give the floor a natural, sculpted texture that feels good barefoot and grips when wet.

• Matte grey floor tile. Throughout the rest of the suite we ran 12x24 Chord Forte Grey, continuing into the commode room with a matching tile baseboard for a clean, finished edge.

Wood, stone, and soft grey all share a similar warmth. The result is grounded and earthy without competing with the lighting or the vanity.

The vanity

The long vanity wall is where the room becomes a daily-use space. Painted cabinetry anchors it, topped with Calacatta quartz. It's the same surface we used in their kitchen, which quietly ties the two rooms together. Two sink cutouts give each person their own station, and above them two lighted medicine cabinets keep the mirror wall clean and uncluttered.

The cabinetry details are where the design earns its keep. Two custom tower cabinets provide tall, concealed storage so the counters can stay clear. A custom pullout power drawer unit keeps hair tools and grooming devices out of sight but plugged in and ready. We raised the sink drains to make room for the pullout drawers beneath them, a small plumbing change that makes a big difference in usable storage.

The commode suite

The toilet has its own room. We reworked the entry with a new solid door for privacy and reset the commode with a bidet outlet in place for the homeowners' bidet. A custom cabinet above the commode adds storage and lighting, and the vertical Fluted tile wall behind it ties the space back to the shower. A classic damask wallpaper wraps the room and brings pattern and a little drama, a deliberate contrast to the quiet, stone-and-wood palette of the main suite. Because the suite is calm everywhere else, this room can be a little playful. It's a small room, and it gets the same attention as the large ones.

Light, comfort, and air

Good bathroom design is as much about how a room feels as how it looks.

• Four LED lights in the wet area and four more in the main room, so each zone has its own layered lighting

• Soft niche lighting in the shower, which makes evening showers feel more like a spa

• Under-cabinet lighting at the commode for a gentle nighttime glow

• Two heating and exhaust fans to manage humidity and keep the room warm

• Two towel warmers, installed and wired in

• A handrail in the wet area, a quiet bit of future-proofing built in

Doors and finishing

We widened the closet opening with a new 32-inch solid door and added a 36-inch two-panel soft-close door for the main entry, all trimmed in crisp 1x4 casing. Soft-close hardware sounds like a small detail, but it's a quiet pleasure you notice every day. Finally, we repaired, textured, and painted the walls, ceilings, doors, and trim so every surface feels finished together.

The result

It's a bathroom that feels bigger without adding a single square foot. The wet room opens the space, the lowered ceiling adds intimacy, and the natural materials keep everything calm. Our favorite part of a return project is hearing that the work feels like home. For these Aledo homeowners, the kitchen and master bath now speak the same language: warm, refined, and made to be lived in.

Planning a master bath in Aledo, Weatherford, or the greater Fort Worth area? Contact Adrian's Design & Remodeling Team to start the conversation.