Bathroom Renovations Newcastle

At Coastal Joinery, we design, build and install bathroom renovations across Newcastle, from Cooks Hill and Hamilton through to Merewether, Mayfield, Wickham and New Lambton. Much of the housing through the inner suburbs is Federation, interwar or post-war, which means bathrooms that are small, poorly lit and built to a waterproofing standard well behind what is required now. Those rooms usually need to come back to the frame rather than be tiled over. The same father and son team that builds your vanity and cabinetry handles the installation, and we coordinate the plumbing, waterproofing and tiling around our own schedule, so you have one point of contact from the first measure to the final fit-off.

Call us today on 0425 327 779 to discuss your bathroom renovation.

More about our bathroom renovations.

Older Newcastle bathrooms are usually the original room with a newer vanity dropped into it. We take those back to the frame rather than tiling over the existing work, because waterproofing standards have moved a long way since the house was built and covering up a failing membrane only delays the problem. From there we fit the custom vanity, shower niches and storage, then tile the room out to finish. You will have a clear scope of what is changing before anything comes out.

Through Cooks Hill, Wickham and Islington the bathroom is often the smallest room in the house and cannot be made any bigger. The gain comes from the layout rather than the footprint. A wall-hung vanity frees up visible floor, a hobless shower removes the step and the screen track, and recessed niches take the clutter off the edge of the bath. Getting the joinery right in a small room is the difference between a bathroom that feels cramped and one that feels considered.

Standard vanity sizes rarely line up with the wall lengths and plumbing positions in an established Newcastle home. We measure on site and build to the room, so the cabinetry runs wall to wall without filler panels. Soft-close drawers, integrated mirror cabinets, stone benchtops and undermount basins are all built at our Berkeley Vale workshop, and we plan the internal layout around the existing plumbing rather than moving it unnecessarily.

Federation and interwar homes through the inner suburbs come with their own complications: uneven floors, out-of-square walls, lath and plaster, and original detailing worth keeping. We measure and scribe the cabinetry to what is actually there rather than assuming a square room, and we can match profiles and finishes so a new bathroom sits comfortably in an older house instead of looking bolted on.