The primary suite the ranch never had.

The houses on Winnebago Road, Oneida Lane and Tahoe Lane were designed around a hall bath and a modest primary with a five-foot tub, because that is what a 1960 beach house needed. Nobody was picturing a double vanity, a freestanding tub and a shower with two heads. So a bathroom project in Sea Ranch Lakes is usually a land grab: a small fourth bedroom or an oversized closet gets folded into the primary, the hall bath gets rebuilt properly for guests, and the powder room stops being an afterthought off the carport.

Bath permits are pulled through the Village office and inspected in sequence, which is exactly what you want when waterproofing and rough plumbing are about to vanish behind stone. Two local realities shape the scope. These are slab-on-grade houses, so relocating a drain means cutting and re-pouring concrete, and the original cast iron and galvanized lines have reached the end of their service life. And adding or enlarging an exterior window alters the elevation, which sends the design to the Beach Club citizen board and the Village Council before the permit moves forward.

A bathroom is the least forgiving room in a house. Membranes get flood-tested and documented before tile is set, pans get sloped to a level rather than to a feeling, and heavy glass hangs on blocking we installed on purpose. Stone is templated and handled by people who have earned the right to touch it. You get a written scope, a daily supervisor, protected paths through the rest of the house, and permits and inspections on everything. Lic. CGC1539072, licensed and insured, with more than 150 remodels and additions behind us.