This Hampton Street home was built in 1918, and the bathroom still had its original blue-and-white hex tile floor. That floor gave the room a kind of character you cannot recreate by simply choosing new finishes. It needed to stay, and the rest of the bathroom needed to be brought back into alignment with it.

MDI handled the design layout in-house, planning the remodel around the original floor and the age of the home. The goal was to make the bathroom feel complete again without making it feel newly detached from the house it belonged to.

The room was taken down to the studs. The bulkhead in the wet space was removed, plumbing and electrical were updated, and new subway tile was installed around the room. The original floor was protected through construction and remained the anchor for every major finish decision.

A console sink was selected because it felt appropriate for a home from that period. The deep soaking tub added the comfort of a modern bath while carrying some of the depth and presence associated with older clawfoot tubs.

The finished bathroom brings modern function back into a historic room. It has updated systems, a cleaner layout, new finishes, and the original floor still doing what it did best: giving the room its identity.