Four over One Design

Went to Asheville for the annual conference. Saw beautiful architecture, ate good food, and fully geeked out. So good to talk nuts and bolts (and corbels and mortar) with other old house folks.

How’s about before-and-after bathroom story time for the foursquare glowup?

Just like the kitchen, the upstairs hall bath was basically perfect except…where it was showing its age. The didn’t go up high enough in the shower, the plumbing was a little leaky, and there wasn’t much storage. But instead of gutting it all, the homeowners opted to fix it. A new cap on the tile, a new vanity, and a gorgeous new hex tile floor make it just right.

In the downstairs, we enclosed a back porch space to create a mudroom and improve the circulation to the downstairs bath. Wallpaper, built-ins, and some good door hardware rounded it out. Amazingly, a window for the shower was just… inside the wall - much like many other details in this house, it just had to be uncovered.

Construction by , before photos by yours truly, afters by

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Three very different projects, three sneaky peaks through the doorway… full photos of these houses just came back to us, and I am so excited to show them off!

Selecting which of ’s photos to use is gonna take a while, so just a teaser for now, and a question:

Do you like to see the before and afters together, or only the glamor shots?