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Design concept renders, not photographs of finished jobs.

Sun Shore Construction, a licensed contractor in Boston. Search our name on Google to find our site and reach us.

Planning a remodel in Greater Boston? See our remodeling services, how we work, or more projects — or contact Sun Shore Construction for a free consultation.

1. Three surfaces, three different tiles. Walls one tile, shower floor another, the floor outside a third. Run the same tile everywhere and the room closes in on you.

2. Walls don’t have to be white. Sage, navy, greige all hold up. Keep the colour restrained, keep the ceiling flat white, let the daylight do the work.

3. Make the shower bigger than you think. A bench, two heads, no curb, room for two.

4. Build a niche into the wall inside the shower. Somewhere to set the shampoo, no wire caddy hanging off the head.

5. A barn-style sliding glass panel. One rail, two rollers, the glass slides sideways. Takes less room than a hinged door and it is easier to keep clean.

These are design concept renders, not photographs of finished jobs.

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White tile walls, a small dark mosaic on the shower floor, and a third tile again on the bathroom floor. Frameless hinged glass on some, a barn-style sliding panel on a black or brass rail on others. Benches, twin shower heads, a freestanding tub inside the glass, a window in the shower, a dormer overhead.

These are design concept renders, made to show ideas — not photographs of completed jobs.

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The existing framing came first — the parts that were done wrong came out and went back correct, and the rest was laid out for the whole room. New ceiling furring, wiring run, then the drywall went on.

Plaster, sand, paint. The light positions were set before anything got closed up. The stair was its own track: new treads, clear coat, railing added after.

The slat panels on both sides are doors. The columns stayed — boxed in, with the bar built off one of them.

Basement finishing across Greater Boston.

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Swapping the machine is the easy part. Open the cabinet and you see it — above the microwave there was one short stub of duct. The microwave came down, a slant-vent hood went up, and the same cabinet got a proper insulated duct running all the way out.

Close the doors and it looks like we just changed an appliance. The work that took the day is all behind that door: routing duct through cabinetry, covering the countertop before a single cut, cutting and capping the exterior wall — and on some houses going up on the roof instead, where the cap has to be seated and sealed on all four edges, because what leaks in is rain.

The finished job looks about the same in every house. The path inside the cabinet gets the same care every time.

Range hood supply and installation across Greater Boston.

Materials in this video: insulated foil flex duct (in-cabinet run) – galvanized rigid duct collar – exterior wall cap – roof cap with sealed flashing – countertop protection board.

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Nothing got patched. The whole thing came down.

The surprise that day wasn’t the missing deck. It was the stretch of house behind it, exposed for the first time in years. That wall had been hidden the whole time, and a house might only give you that opening once.

So the first job wasn’t the deck — it was the wall. New house wrap while it was open, siding back over it. Once the new deck went on, nobody was reaching that again.

The rest followed the same logic: everything you can’t get to later goes first. Frame, boards, railing.

The stairs changed the most. Closed risers now, a handrail on each side, and a hard pad at the bottom so nobody steps into mud. On the deck itself the boards are composite, clipped down with the fasteners hidden underneath, and the white railing with black balusters keeps the view through to the trees open.

There’s room up there now. The grill sits in the corner and the middle stays clear — the old one couldn’t do that.

Same house. The backyard just gets used differently.

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Most people who’ve seen that orange waffled membrane on a job site assume it’s waterproofing. Its actual job is crack prevention — houses expand and contract, subfloors flex, and this layer keeps that movement below the tile instead of transmitting it up into the grout lines.

Walls and floors don’t fail the same way:

• Walls fear water — cement board with finished edges first, then a red liquid membrane brushed over everything, niche included

• Floors fear movement — an uncoupling membrane goes under the tile

Also in this video:

• Stripped back to the studs with the ceiling opened, new tub set before the surrounding framing went back

• A wood-look tile niche, laid horizontally, with all four edges landing on one line

• Hex mosaic running under the tub line, which stretches a narrow room out

• The window kept — in a sloped-ceiling bath that beats adding another fan

The niche, the sliding glass door and the extra moisture protection on the shower wall were all added mid-project. Start to finish, about ten days.

Materials: USG DUROCK cement board, Schluter DITRA uncoupling membrane, red liquid waterproofing, hex mosaic floor tile, large-format gloss white wall tile, wood-look tile niche, sliding glass door, dark wood-grain vanity with a recessed medicine cabinet.

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It used to be a tub. When it became a walk-in shower, the entrance was deliberately lowered — that wasn’t an afterthought, it was written into the scope of work: so that nobody has to step over anything later.

Opening the wall exposed water-damaged studs and subfloor, replaced before anything went back. Part of the header over the shower entry was cut back to open it up, while the crown molding above was kept intact.

In this video:

• The four steps that come before tile — pan liner, sloped mud bed, cement board, full waterproofing

• A linear drain along the back wall, so the whole floor slopes one way

• 30×60 cm wall tile held flush with leveling clips

• A niche positioned before the first tile went on, in the same tile as the walls

• A medicine cabinet recessed into the wall, keeping that wall flat

Materials: 30×60 cm white gloss wall tile (EMILGROUP, Italy), hex mosaic shower floor, dark grey large-format floor tile, USG DUROCK cement board with EdgeGuard, linear drain, chrome fittings, sliding glass door, white vanity with a marble-look top.

On a first floor, a low curb is worth more than a pretty one.

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It started with a tub nobody used sitting in front of the best window in the room, and a divider wall that closed off the laundry corner. Two moves fixed both: the tub became a walk-in shower, and the wall came out.

Along the way the floor tile, toilet, lighting and exhaust fan were replaced too — not because anything was upsold, but because each one had its own reason.

In this video:

• The four layers under a walk-in shower (pan liner, sloped mud bed, cement board, full waterproofing) — the part that disappears under the tile

• Why a niche has to be positioned before the first tile goes on

• A low curb you can step over without lifting your knee

Materials used: white subway tile laid horizontally, hex mosaic shower floor, marble-look large-format floor tile, patterned mosaic niche, matte black hardware, white drawer vanity with integrated sink.

The house did not get any bigger. It just works now.

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