Surrounded by the wooded landscape of Scappoose, this home offered the perfect setting for a primary bathroom designed to feel connected to the outdoors. Rather than remodel the existing bathroom, the homeowners replaced it with a new addition, giving Evergreen’s design-build team the opportunity to create a larger, light-filled retreat from the ground up.
The design takes its cues from nature, pairing expansive windows and skylights with soft greens, warm wood tones, stone, concrete, and subtle texture. The result is an organic modern bathroom that feels calm and restorative without sacrificing function.
Bringing the Outdoors In
Natural light was central to the design. Four expansive skylights bring daylight in from above, while an oversized window opens the room to views of the surrounding landscape. The connection changes throughout the day as sunlight moves across the textured surfaces and natural stone.
A subtle foundation of Bedrosians Purestone 12×24 tile in Matte Beige runs throughout the bathroom, toilet room, and shower floor. Its warm, understated tone provides a counterpoint to the room’s more expressive materials while allowing the landscape outside to remain part of the palette.
The vanity wall and opposite window wall are clad in United Tile Aeterna 18×48 Bianco Cesellato Field Matte Wall Deco. The dimensional surface adds texture without introducing another strong color or pattern, becoming especially noticeable as natural light moves across it.
A Shower Designed Without Glass
At the center of the bathroom is an expansive dual walk-in shower wrapped in polished 12×24 Ming Green marble. Its soft green color and flowing veining give the shower an almost watercolor quality, bringing movement and depth to the room.
The stone installation required careful planning to maintain continuity in the veining across the shower walls. On the exterior, curved wing walls are finished in Modern Surfaces 12×24 Robel, a fluted wood-look tile that introduces warmth and provides a softer transition between the shower and the rest of the bathroom.
Rather than enclosing the shower, the floor was engineered with a subtle peak at its center, allowing each side to slope naturally toward its own linear drain. Together with the wing walls, the design keeps water contained within the shower area without requiring glass.
That solution keeps the room visually open, leaves the Ming Green marble uninterrupted, and eliminates another surface to clean.
A Custom Concrete Centerpiece
The vanity brings another material into the mix: concrete.
The custom floating sink was fabricated by Bend-based Cement Elegance and designed specifically for the space. Chiseled edges and softened radius corners give the concrete a sculptural quality, while the integrated wood vanity underneath adds warmth and useful storage.
Creating something that looks this simple required precise fabrication and installation. The curves of the concrete echo the radius walls elsewhere in the room, helping connect the vanity visually to the architecture rather than treating it as a standalone fixture.
Throughout the bathroom, transitions between the polished marble, matte floor tile, dimensional wall tile, wood-look surfaces, concrete, and plaster were carefully detailed so the materials feel related rather than competing.
Getting the Details Right
One of the biggest challenges came from the material intended to be the room’s focal point.
When the originally selected green marble arrived, it looked dramatically different from the samples and images available during the selection process. Instead of the soft, fluid movement envisioned for the bathroom, the stone was heavily mottled and visually busy.
With so much of the shower wrapped in stone, accepting it would have changed the character of the entire room.
The team quickly sourced a replacement, ultimately selecting the Ming Green marble with the quieter, organic movement the design called for. The change preserved the original vision while minimizing the effect on the construction schedule.
Making Room for What You Don’t Want to See
Another challenge involved something considerably less beautiful: the required hot water tank.
Instead of giving up valuable bathroom space or placing mechanical equipment where it would be visible, the team lowered the ceiling within the adjacent toilet room and concealed the tank above the ceiling plane.
It’s a detail most people will never notice, which is exactly the point. The solution preserved the bathroom’s footprint and kept the clean architectural lines intact.
An Addition That Changed the Experience of the Home
Replacing the original bathroom with a new primary bath addition created room for much more than a larger shower or vanity. It allowed the homeowners to have a space shaped around its setting, with daylight overhead, views to the landscape, and materials chosen for both how they look and how they feel together.
From the Ming Green marble and textured Aeterna tile to the custom concrete sink, each finish contributes something different while staying within the same natural, restrained palette.
The finished bathroom feels open and uncomplicated. Behind that simplicity is careful engineering, custom fabrication, precise installation, and a series of design decisions made specifically for this home.
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