In many older homes around Washington, the only full bathroom has a tub that nobody uses. Converting it to a walk-in shower opens the room up visually, removes the step-over that becomes harder with age, and usually makes the space easier to clean.
Before you commit, think about who lives in the house and who might buy it. If this is the only tub in the home and you have young children, or plan to sell to a family, keeping one bathtub somewhere is often the smarter choice. If there is a tub in another bathroom, converting the primary bath is rarely a resale concern.
The work itself is more than swapping fixtures. The tub comes out, the drain is relocated and resized, and a new shower base is built with the correct slope toward the drain. The walls and floor are covered with a waterproof membrane, and only then does tile go up. This hidden layer is what separates a shower that lasts from one that leaks into the ceiling below.
The design choices are where the room gets its character: a curbless entry, a built-in bench, a niche sized for real bottles, and frameless glass that lets the tile show. We plan all of these on paper with you first, so the finished shower looks intentional rather than improvised.