A primary bath in Upper St. Clair designed in collaboration with a local architect the family had worked with on prior projects. The brief was a clean, gallery-quality room — high contrast, minimal pattern, no detail out of place.
The Ask
We want this to feel like a piece of architecture, not a decorated bathroom. Black and white. Calacatta-look porcelain on the floor. A statement countertop that does the work of an art piece. And lit mirrors — not over-the-mirror sconces.
The Design
The architect specified a high-contrast palette: marble-look porcelain underfoot, smooth white walls, custom flat-front white cabinetry stretching nearly floor-to-ceiling for symmetry, and a dramatic veined black quartz counter that the rest of the room defers to. Backlit LED mirrors for clean even lighting. Matte black hardware throughout. A freestanding soaker beneath the existing arched window.
The Build
Six weeks. ICR built to the architect’s drawings exactly, RFI’d a handful of clarifications during framing, and worked the architect into final field decisions on outlet placement and mirror sizing. Cabinet runs were stick-built to fit the existing wall geometry rather than trying to fit modular boxes. Every transition — counter to backsplash, mirror to wall, baseboard to tile — held to a tight reveal.
See it in motion.
The moment it came together.
Details, from every angle.
“A primary bath designed to feel like a piece of architecture — high-contrast, restrained, and intentional in every line. The black quartz counter does the heavy lifting; the rest of the room is allowed to be quiet. Built to age into the home, not date out of it.”
