Master Bathroom with Clawfoot Tub, Overland Park

Project Story

All Under One Roof remodeled the master bathroom of an Overland Park home in 2020. The room was laid out around two features: a clawfoot tub under a triple window, framed by a patterned mosaic wainscot, & a walk in shower with two rain heads, two hand showers & a row of body sprays.

Project at a glance

• Location: Overland Park, Kansas, in Johnson County
• Room: master bathroom
• Tub: a freestanding clawfoot style tub with whirlpool jets & a rim mounted filler with a hand shower
• Shower: walk in, behind a frameless glass door, with two ceiling mounted rain heads, two hand showers on slide bars & body sprays
• Tile: large format marble look tile on the walls & floor, a patterned mosaic wainscot & accent strip, & a small square mosaic on the shower floor
• Planning: a field measure, existing conditions drawings & permit plans, with the layout drawn in CAD in January 2020
• Year: 2020

The tub under the triple window

The tub stands on its own in front of a triple window that looks out over trees & a pond behind the house, so the window, not a wall, is the backdrop. A patterned mosaic wainscot wraps the three walls of the alcove up to the sill & stops at the glass, framing the tub without closing it in. The tub is a clawfoot style with whirlpool jets, filled from a rim mounted faucet with a hand shower, & it sits on a floor of large format marble look tile laid in an offset pattern.

A freestanding tub is placed early in the design for practical reasons. Its drain & supply lines come up through the floor exactly where the tub will sit, so they are set before the floor tile goes down, & a whirlpool tub also needs power for its pump. Fixing the tub position on the drawings is what lets the plumbing, the electrical & the tile layout line up with it.

A walk in shower with two rain heads

The shower is a walk in behind a frameless glass door, finished in large format marble look tile laid in a running pattern, with a vertical strip of the same mosaic as the wainscot running floor to ceiling. Two rain heads hang from the ceiling with a recessed light between them, & a hand shower on a slide bar sits at each end, so the shower is set up for two people at once. A row of body sprays runs down one wall, & a long recessed niche spans the back wall.

The floor is a small square mosaic. Small tiles put more grout lines underfoot, which gives more grip on a wet floor, & they follow the slope to the drain more easily than large tiles do.

Planning a shower with several outlets

Two rain heads, two hand showers & a set of body sprays draw far more water than a single shower head, so a shower like this one is planned around the supply line, the valve & diverter layout & a drain sized for the flow. Every outlet & the niche are set in the wall at rough in, before any tile goes on, which is why their positions are fixed on the drawings rather than decided on site.

Drawn before it was built

The project started with a field measure, existing conditions drawings & permit plans for the master bath, & the new layout was drawn in CAD in January 2020. Drawing the room as it actually stood first means the tub, the shower outlets & the niche are placed against the real walls, windows & plumbing rather than an old floor plan. The bathroom remodeling page covers how a bath like this one is planned & waterproofed.

A returning client

The homeowners first hired All Under One Roof in 2016 for smaller work in the same house, including painting a bathroom vanity & the base trim in the bathroom & laundry, & came back for the master bath. Work that takes in the bedroom & closet around a primary bath is planned as master suite remodeling, & finish work across other rooms falls under interior home renovations.

Master bathroom remodeling in Overland Park

All Under One Roof remodels master bathrooms, kitchens & basements across Overland Park with design, permitting & construction under one contract. More on the firm's work in the city is on the Overland Park page. Two more bathrooms are part of the Lenexa master bathroom remodel & the Overland Park basement remodel.

Completed Work