CONTACTLarge-Format Porcelanosa Bathroom Remodel
in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
Mitered Niche, Minimal Grout
- LOCATION
- Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Our clients had just purchased this two-story Lincoln Heights home and were remodeling most of it to make the space feel like their own. The existing bathroom was working against them: dark, dated, and in need of a major rehab. The brief for this room was simple: make it bright.
The bathroom was already fully demoed when we showed up, which put us straight into the least glamorous, most important phase: framing. It took a long series of adjustments to get every wall level and plumb before any board went up. With large-format tile there's nowhere to hide. Big panels telegraph every hump and wave in the framing behind them.
The biggest single change wasn't tile at all: we added a skylight, which turned a gloomy room into an airy, bright one.
Every shower wall was waterproofed with Schluter KERDI-BOARD, a fully waterproof substrate that carries a lifetime manufacturer warranty. Over it we set large-format, sandy-beige porcelain from Porcelanosa: the same durable tile on the shower walls and the bathroom floor, so the small room reads as one continuous surface with minimal grout lines.
For the shower niche, we mitered the tile edges rather than capping them with a trim profile. A mitered niche keeps everything clean and seamless: no new material introduced into the bathroom, just the field tile turning the corner. A new Kohler tub and Kohler shower fixtures finished the space.
Questions about
this project.
Why miter the niche instead of using metal trim?
Edge trim introduces a material and color the client never chose. Mitering means cutting each exposed edge at 45° and polishing it: more labor, but the niche disappears into the wall instead of being outlined by a strip of metal. In a minimal room like this one, that's the whole look.What is Schluter KERDI-BOARD?
A pre-waterproofed board that replaces conventional backer on shower walls, making the wall waterproof before a single tile goes on, and the system carries a lifetime manufacturer warranty. It's what we used on every shower wall here.Can a skylight be added during a bathroom remodel?
Yes, it was the single most transformative piece of this project. When a private bathroom can't get a bigger window, a skylight is often the best way to make it feel genuinely bright and larger than it is.
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