Custom Home Remodel | Living Room, Bathroom, and Office
The Upstairs Transformation: Living Room, Bathroom, and Home Office Done Right
When you’re doing a whole-home renovation, every room matters equally — including the ones that don’t get their own headline. The upstairs of this Alpine home included the living room, a bathroom, and a home office, and each one was part of the same project that transformed the kitchen, the master suite, the basement, and the playroom below.
The challenge with a multi-room remodel like this isn’t building each space well. It’s making sure all of them feel like they belong to the same home.
The Living Room
The living room is where the upstairs announces itself. The space was transformed structurally and aesthetically as part of the larger addition and renovation — and the feature that draws the most attention is the fireplace surround.
Don calls it one of his personal highlights from the entire project: a combination of natural stone and porcelain slab that came together in a way that exceeded what anyone imagined when they were planning it. Stone and porcelain is a pairing that requires precision — the materials have different textures, scales, and weights, and making them work together takes real design vision and real craft to execute.
“The combination of stone and porcelain slab around the fireplace turned out fantastic. That’s one I find myself pointing to when I want to show what this project is capable of.”
The living room flows into the rest of the home with the same engineered wood flooring that runs throughout the addition and main level — a continuous material story that ties every room together without calling attention to itself.
The Bathroom
Bathroom renovations in a whole-home project often get treated as secondary — functional updates that follow the priorities set by the bigger rooms. Not here. The bathroom was finished to the same standard as every other space in the home, with tile work, fixtures, and trim details that reflect the same intentionality as the master suite and kitchen.
In a home at this level, consistency of finish matters. Guests notice. Buyers notice. And most importantly, the people who live here notice every day.
The Home Office
The home office was designed as a proper workspace — not a desk in a corner, not a converted closet, but a dedicated room built with the function of real work in mind. The space is part of the overall upstairs design language, with the same care given to how it feels to spend time in it as to any other room in the home.
The Whole Picture
What makes this upstairs transformation worth writing about isn’t any single room. It’s the cohesion. Walking through the upstairs, you’re moving through spaces that were each designed and built with attention — and that feel, collectively, like a finished home rather than a collection of renovated rooms.
That’s harder than it sounds, and it’s something we think about deliberately on every multi-room project. The materials, the finishes, the trim profiles, the lighting — all of it was coordinated so that the home tells one story, not seven.
This project in Alpine represents what a whole-home renovation can be when every room is treated as part of the same vision. If you’re thinking about what that could look like in your home, we’d love to talk.
