Room of the Day: A Bathroom That’s Simply Efficient (4 photos)

AFTER: Part of remodeling the bathroom involved making it appear larger, but Stewart also expanded its footprint by 10 square feet by bumping out two of the shower walls. “Just 10 square feet can make all the difference in the world,” he says. The new shower is 59 inches long and 37 inches wide. “You don’t hit the walls,” the designer adds. It also includes a bench, a built-in niche and an architectural shower head.

The bathroom previously received no natural light. New recessed lights improve the bathroom’s artificial light quality, and a new acid-etched window brings in diffused natural light. When he rebuilt one of the bumped-out shower walls, Stewart stopped the wall at 6 feet, 6 inches, and inserted the glass panel above it. Natural light from the interior of the condo streams into the now-bright bathroom all day.

A fixed glass wall encloses the shower; Stewart included it as a way to reduce maintenance by minimizing moving parts, to simplify the space and to allow natural light to permeate the space. “The less solid walls you use, the larger a space will feel,” Stewart says.

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