Bathroom Remodeling in Bee Cave, TX

Spanish Oaks and Falconhead primaries from the 2000s have room, plumbing in good shape, and panels with capacity. What they do not have is a plan that uses the space. The tub platform is a stage. The shower is tiled in 12-inch travertine with a curb and a mud-set pan over a liner that is now twenty years old. Vanities are long with doors, framed mirrors, and a bronze light bar. Floors are travertine that has etched and pitted around the toilet and the tub.

Lake Pointe's 1990s baths run smaller and more conventional: tiled garden tub in the corner, a 36-inch shower, cultured marble or tile counters. Bee Cave sits on limestone, so slabs are flat and sound. Recessing a curbless shower is easy. Moving a drain across the room means cutting rock, so we design around the existing drain lines when we can and price the cut up front when we cannot.

The columns and the platform go. In their place: a wet room behind one line of glass, with a freestanding tub under the window and a shower beside it sized for the people who live there. The old liner pan comes out and a full waterproofing system goes in, curbless, with a linear drain. Travertine comes off the walls and the floor, and lighter stone or large-format porcelain goes back with the layout drawn before the first cut. Heated floors and a steam unit are common requests here.

Vanities get rebuilt with drawers, taller mirrors, and sconces at face height instead of a bar overhead. The water closet gets a real door and its own fan. In Lake Pointe the garden tub becomes a larger shower and the room gets the same tile standard at a tighter budget. Powder baths in Bee Cave houses are often small and dark, and we treat them as the one room a guest will remember.

Bathroom remodels that move plumbing or add circuits are permitted through the City of Bee Cave. We file and meet the inspectors. Some addresses in the area are in unincorporated Travis County or the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction rather than the city itself, so we confirm the authority before filing. Spanish Oaks requires contractor registration at the gate and reviews exterior changes, and the Falconhead and Lake Pointe HOAs set work hours. A new or larger window over a tub is an exterior change.

Heavy stone slabs and large-format tile travel out Highway 71 from Austin, and gated streets mean deliveries need to be timed, so we stage materials and schedule the glass measurement the day tile is finished. A primary bath runs 4 to 6 weeks, a hall bath 3 to 4, and glass adds about two weeks at the end. Travertine removal is in the schedule. Price is fixed in writing before demo, and the owner is on your site.