Bathroom Remodeling • Ponte Vedra, FL
Ponte Vedra primary bathrooms were built big and finished to the builder standard of their decade: a jetted garden tub the size of a small pool, a shower stall built for one elbow, cultured marble and carpet-era floors. Braga Remodeling remodels bathrooms in Ponte Vedra, FL — the tub comes out, a large tiled shower takes the space, and the room is finished to the standard of the rest of the house, with materials chosen for life near the ocean.
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5.0 · 37 Google reviewsThe classic Ponte Vedra primary bath has its space backwards: most of the room given to a tub nobody uses, and the shower — the thing used every day — squeezed into the corner. The project we build most here fixes exactly that, and finishes the room the way it should have been built the first time.
Overview
Ponte Vedra's housing — Sawgrass and the TPC area, Marsh Landing, the older streets closer to Ponte Vedra Boulevard and the beach — runs from 1980s and 90s homes with big primary suites to newer construction and beach cottages. What their bathrooms share is a finish level that stopped matching the house years ago. A bathroom remodel here is usually a master bathroom remodel first: the primary suite brought up to the standard of the kitchen and the living spaces.
The layout gift of these rooms is space. The jetted tub deck and the shower stall together hold enough square footage for a genuinely large walk-in shower — bench, niche, room for two shower heads if wanted — with the footprint left over for a linen cabinet or a smaller freestanding tub for owners who still soak. Because the room is big, the design decisions matter more than the demolition: tile format, drain placement, glass lines and where the bench goes are all settled at the measurement, in the written scope.
Underneath, the build is the same discipline as everywhere we work: demolition to sound material, the shower base and walls waterproofed as one continuous system before tile, and ventilation reviewed — close to the ocean, a Ponte Vedra bathroom that cannot dry itself will age its grout, sealant and vanity years early. The broader picture of working in these homes is on our Ponte Vedra remodeling page.
Space rebalanced
The shower gets the room it deserves
Large-format tile
Layouts planned around the format
Coastal detailing
Materials and ventilation for ocean air
Written scope first
Design settled before demolition
The Common Project
The oversized jetted tub was the luxury marker of its era, and it aged badly: jets that harbor buildup, a deck that eats a third of the room, and a step-over side that gets less friendly every year. Most Ponte Vedra owners use it a handful of times a decade while showering daily in a stall built when showers were an afterthought. Removing it is the single highest-value change in the room.
What replaces it is a design choice, not a default. The most common build: the shower expands across the tub-and-stall footprint — a walk-in shower with a bench, a niche sized for real bottles, and large-format wall tile — and the tub simply leaves. Owners who still soak choose a compact freestanding tub in a corner of the wet area or beside a window, sized for a person instead of a showroom. Either way the room ends up arranged around how it is used every day.
The whole footprint returns to the design
Bench, niche and glass planned into the space
A right-sized freestanding tub instead of the deck
Coastal Conditions
A Ponte Vedra bathroom works in salt air and high humidity, and it usually serves people coming in from the beach or the pool. The material answers are unglamorous and they matter: porcelain tile instead of thirsty stone in the wet areas, mold-resistant grout and flexible sealant at every joint that moves, exhaust sized to clear the room after a long shower, and vanity construction that does not swell at the base the first time water sits against it.
Guest and pool baths get the same logic with harder-wearing choices — floors that shrug off sand and wet feet, a real tiled shower instead of a fiberglass unit, and finishes that clean easily between guests. The wet work underneath is identical to the primary: waterproofed as a system before tile, because humidity near the coast does not forgive shortcuts.
Straight answers
Braga Remodeling is a Jacksonville remodeling company at 4305 Napoli Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, phone (904) 520-1994. The crew remodels Ponte Vedra bathrooms — jetted tub removals, large tile showers, primary bath remodels and guest and pool baths — starting with a free in-home design visit and a written scope.
Removing the oversized jetted tub and expanding the shower into the combined footprint. Ponte Vedra primary baths from the 1980s–2000s typically gave most of the room to a tub that is rarely used and a small shower stall; rebalancing that space into a full-size tiled shower is the change owners value most.
What We Build
The full primary suite reworked: layout rebalanced, large shower, double vanity, tile and fixtures finished to the standard of the house. See the master bathroom remodel guide.
The decked jetted tub comes out and the shower takes the combined footprint — the most common Ponte Vedra project, detailed in the guide above.
Large walk-in showers, and curbless entries where the floor structure and drain position allow them — answered on site, not from a photo.
Bathrooms that serve the beach and the pool: durable porcelain floors, tiled showers and finishes that handle sand, wet feet and a house full of guests.
Big tile done properly — substrate flattened, layout planned so cuts land where they should, and mosaic on the shower floor where the slope needs it. See tile installation.
Double vanities with real storage, stone-look tops, and fixture sets — including handhelds and rain heads — plumbed and set into the finished tile under the same scope.
Our Process
We measure the room, look at the tub, shower and floor structure, and talk through the layout options the space allows — including whether curbless is realistic.
Layout, materials and price are fixed in writing before demolition — tile format, bench and niche placement, glass lines and fixtures all settled.
The tub, stall and old finishes come out, conditions are checked, and the new shower base and walls are waterproofed as one system before tile.
Tile, vanity, fixtures and finish work go in, the room is cleaned, and we walk the finished bathroom with you.
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Tell us about the bathroom — the tub, the shower, the layout you wish you had — and we'll visit, measure and put the design and scope in writing, at no cost. Prefer to talk? Call (904) 520-1994 or email braga@bragaremodeling.com.
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