Bathroom renovation Services in Ladue, MO
Ladue homes are big; the bathrooms inside them often aren’t. The original primary baths in Ladue’s mid-century estates and 1970s colonials were designed when “primary suite” wasn’t yet a phrase, when fitness rooms and walk-in closets weren’t standard, when “his and hers” meant a second sink. A bathroom renovation brings the primary up to the standard that the rest of the home already meets.
Why Ladue, MO homeowners trust Aleto with their bathroom
Most Ladue homes were built between the 1940s and the 1970s, with another wave through the 1980s and 1990s. The architecture is traditional Colonial, ranch, mid-century, and a strong contemporary subset. The lots are large, the street setbacks are deep, and the exteriors have aged well. What’s typically dated, often dramatically so, is the primary bathroom. Original Ladue primary baths are often 8×10 or 10×12, with a tub-shower combo, a single vanity, a cramped water closet, and a door that opens directly into the bedroom. The fixtures, finishes, and proportions reflect when the home was built, not how a primary bath functions today.
Renovating a Ladue bathroom is rarely a like-for-like replacement. The opportunity is almost always to expand the footprint by absorbing an adjacent room, closet, or hallway, then design a primary bath at the scale these homes deserve: a soaking tub, a walk-in shower with body sprays and a steam generator, separate his-and-hers vanities or a long shared marble vanity with a knee well, a private water closet, a dedicated dressing area, and finishes that reflect the level of the rest of the home. Guest and Jack-and-Jill baths get attention too, but the primary is almost always the project.
Aleto Construction Group has been renovating Ladue homes for decades, including primary suite expansions, full bathroom redesigns, and integrated dressing rooms across the community. As a design-build firm rooted in St. Louis since 1955, we manage every step from initial design through the last mosaic tile, with the discretion and on-site standards Ladue clients rightly expect.
What a bathroom renovation in Ladue, MO can include
Every project is scoped to the home and the homeowner. Here are the areas we address most often in Ladue bathroom renovations:
Primary suite expansion
Pushing into an adjacent bedroom, sitting room, hallway closet, or bonus space to give the primary bath the footprint to function as a true retreat
Steam showers and wet rooms
Walk-in showers with multi-head plumbing, frameless glass, body sprays, rain heads, integrated benches, and dedicated steam generators
Freestanding soaking tubs
Properly sized cast iron, copper, or stone tubs with floor-mounted fillers, set on the right tile or stone field to anchor the room
Dual vanities and dressing areas
Separate his-and-hers vanities, knee wells for seated makeup application, integrated dressing tables, and direct connection to the primary closet
Stone and marble work
Custom slab vanity tops, full-height marble shower walls, mosaic flooring, heated stone floors, and bookmatched accent walls
Guest and Jack-and-Jill baths
Full redesigns of the secondary bathrooms so they match the finish standard of the primary rather than dragging behind it
Pool, cabana, and detached baths
Pool baths and cabana facilities for properties with pool houses, sport courts, or detached entertaining spaces
Powder room transformations
Statement powder rooms with stone vessel sinks, hand-painted wall coverings, sculptural lighting, and bespoke plumbing fixtures
What a bathroom renovation looks like in Ladue, MO
Ladue homeowners renovate bathrooms for reasons specific to mid-century and traditional estate homes. Here are the scenarios we see most often.
Expanding the primary into the room next door
Most original Ladue primary bathrooms can’t grow into a true spa-level suite without taking footprint from somewhere. The most common move is to absorb an adjacent bedroom (often a former nursery or a small fourth bedroom that’s now used as an office or storage), reframe the wall, reroute the plumbing and HVAC, and lay out the expanded space as a unified primary bath, water closet, and dressing area. Done well, this also gives the primary bedroom the proper proportions it should have had to begin with. Done poorly, the result is a big bathroom that still feels chopped together. The difference is in the design, the plumbing routing, and the discipline to keep proportions right.
Replacing 1980s and 1990s “luxury”
Many Ladue primary baths were last renovated in the late 1980s or 1990s, and at the time those finishes were the top of the market: gold-tone fixtures, etched glass shower enclosures, beige veined marble, oak vanity cabinets, brass sconces, and jetted tubs in tile decks. Forty years on, the same finishes read as dated rather than luxurious. A current Ladue bathroom renovation typically replaces them with honest materials at full scale: large-format porcelain or natural stone slabs, satin nickel or unlacquered brass plumbing, freestanding tubs without decks, framed or frameless glass, custom paint-grade or rift-cut white oak vanities, and lighting that’s contemporary without being trendy.
Mixing traditional architecture with modern function
Ladue homes are predominantly traditional in their bones, and the best bathroom renovations don’t fight that. The work is to layer in contemporary plumbing, lighting, and stone treatment without turning a traditional Colonial primary bath into a hotel suite. This is where design discipline matters. Crown moldings continue. Door and window trim is appropriate to the period. Hardware is selected to feel inherited rather than catalog-ordered. The renovation is current, but it reads as part of the home, not transplanted onto it.
Bringing the rest of the bathrooms up to the same level
The instinct is to renovate the primary and stop there. The reality is that Ladue homes typically have four to six bathrooms, and the gap between a fully renovated primary and the original 1970s guest bath becomes uncomfortably visible. A coordinated bathroom renovation across the whole home (primary first, then guest baths, Jack-and-Jills, powder rooms, basement and pool baths) finishes the project properly. Not all at once is fine. But planned as one cohesive sequence, with consistent finish language, so the home reads as fully realized rather than half-renovated.
What our clients are saying…
“Aleto made our dream home come true and they made the four months renovation period smooth, pleasant, and seamless. Mike was a dream contractor – he kept in communication with us every single day. We received daily updates and he responded immediately to any and all messages we sent him. They hired the best workers, they worked with the best companies, and we could not be happier with our finished project. We recommend Aleto 100%.”
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Frequently asked questions
How much does a bathroom renovation cost in Ladue, MO?
Most Ladue primary bathroom renovations run from the high five figures into the low six figures, depending on scope and finish. Projects that involve structural expansion, full slab stone work, steam shower assemblies, custom millwork, and integrated dressing rooms move into the mid-six figures. Guest and powder room renovations typically run from the mid-five figures upward. We provide a detailed estimate with a clear scope before construction begins, and we don’t allow finish substitutions to quietly erode the design.
How long does a bathroom renovation take in Ladue?
A primary bathroom renovation in Ladue typically takes 10 to 20 weeks of construction, with longer schedules for projects that involve expansion into adjacent rooms, structural work, custom millwork, or specialty stone fabrication that has long lead times. Guest and powder room projects are shorter, often 6 to 10 weeks. We sequence multi-bathroom renovations so the household always has functional bathrooms during construction.
Can you expand our primary bath into the bedroom next door?
In most Ladue homes, yes. The structural and code work is straightforward when the rooms share a common wall and are on the same level. The harder questions are design questions: which wall to remove, where to place the new entry, how to reroute the plumbing efficiently, how to redesign the bedroom that lost the absorbed room (or whether that room is being eliminated entirely), and how to make the expanded layout feel intentional rather than tacked together. We work through these decisions during design, before any wall comes down.
Will we need to relocate during a Ladue bathroom renovation?
For a primary bath renovation in a home with multiple other functioning bathrooms, most clients stay through construction. The primary bedroom may need to be relocated to a guest room for the duration if the work is connected. For renovations that involve only the primary bath, dust containment and access protocols keep the rest of the home livable. Multi-bathroom or whole-suite renovations that take the primary and an adjacent bedroom out of service usually still work for staying, given how many bathrooms a typical Ladue home has.
How do we coordinate a bathroom renovation with the home’s existing architecture?
This is one of the most important decisions in a Ladue bathroom project, and we treat it as a design conversation, not a checkbox. The trim profiles, door styles, hardware finishes, lighting language, and stone selection all need to be appropriate to a home that may be 50 to 80 years old. We pull samples of the existing trim and millwork, document the home’s hardware and lighting language, and design the new bathroom as a continuation of that vocabulary at a current finish level. The result reads as if the primary bath was always this way.
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