Service areas
Where we work across Los Angeles
We plan and build bathrooms across the City of Los Angeles and the independent cities around it. Each of those cities has its own housing stock, its own building department and its own way of doing things.
One metro, many jurisdictions
Los Angeles looks like one city on a map, but a bathroom remodel in Santa Monica, Pasadena or Burbank is handled by that city, not by Los Angeles. Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, Pasadena, Glendale and Burbank each run their own building and safety departments, with their own plan check process, inspection scheduling and local rules. Neighborhoods inside the City of Los Angeles go through LADBS.
That matters less for the tile you choose than for how the project is sequenced. When a remodel moves plumbing, adds a circuit, changes a wall or adds a bathroom, many cities require a permit, and the review path differs from one city to the next. We confirm what applies to your address with the relevant department before we price the work, and we build the schedule around it. Requirements change, so treat anything you read online, including here, as a starting point for that conversation.
If you want the longer version, our guide to bathroom remodel permits in Los Angeles covers the general questions to ask.
Seven city pages
What bathrooms tend to need, city by city
These notes describe common housing patterns, not rules. Your house may be the exception, which is why every project starts with a walk-through.
Santa Monica
A large share of Santa Monica households live in condos and apartment buildings from the 1950s through the 1970s, where bathrooms are compact and the building sets the working rules. Near the ocean, the marine layer keeps bathrooms damp for longer, so exhaust fan ducting, grout choice and the finish on hardware deserve more thought than they get inland. Mid-century and Spanish-style houses fill out the rest.
Beverly Hills
Here the work is more often a primary suite than a hall bath: 1920s and 1930s Spanish and Mediterranean revival houses, mid-century modern homes and newer construction, with condo buildings across the southern flats. Projects tend to involve natural stone, custom vanities, designers or architects, and materials with long lead times that have to be ordered well before demolition.
West Hollywood
West Hollywood is dense, and most bathrooms we are asked about are in condos: 1920s and 1930s courtyard buildings and later mid-rise complexes. Stacked plumbing, shared shut-offs, sound transmission to the unit below and elevator reservations shape the job as much as the design does. Tub-to-shower conversions come up constantly.
Culver City
Bungalows from the 1920s through the 1940s and post-war houses, many built with a single bathroom. The common requests are a full remodel of that one bath, a second bathroom carved out of a closet or bedroom, or a bathroom for a new ADU. Houses on raised foundations make plumbing changes more practical than on a slab.
Pasadena
Craftsman bungalows, Spanish Colonial Revival houses and other period homes, some within designated historic districts. Owners usually want new plumbing and waterproofing behind walls that still look like they belong to the house: hex mosaic floors, subway tile, cast-iron tubs worth keeping.
Glendale
Hillside houses with steep driveways and stairs, 1920s to 1950s Spanish and post-war homes, and a large number of condos and apartments. Older houses may still have galvanized supply lines. Access and staging are often the first thing we plan.
Burbank
Post-war houses, many still with the original pink, mint or yellow wall tile in the hall bath. Bathrooms are small, the Valley runs hot in summer, and a lot of long-time owners want a shower they can step into safely. ADU bathrooms are a growing share of requests.
Inside the City of Los Angeles
Most of our work is in Los Angeles itself, which is too varied to reduce to a single page. We work across the Westside, the Hollywood Hills, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, the San Fernando Valley and the neighborhoods in between, from 1920s duplexes to hillside post-and-beam houses to recent condo buildings.
Those projects are permitted through LADBS where a permit is required. If your address is in unincorporated Los Angeles County, the county handles it instead, and we check which applies before anything else.
Travel and scheduling
We do not publish a fixed service radius. Whether we can take on a project depends on its scope, where it sits in our schedule and the logistics of the site, so we confirm travel and timing at the consultation rather than promise it here.
If you are just outside the cities listed, ask anyway. The answer is often yes for a full remodel and sometimes no for a small repair far from our other work.
Go straight to a city
The work itself is the same everywhere
The city changes the paperwork and the logistics. It does not change how a shower pan is waterproofed or how a vanity is set. Whatever the address, the scope of what we do is described on our service pages, starting with complete bathroom remodeling, and how our estimates are put together explains why a condo in one city and a house in another can price very differently for similar-looking rooms.
- 01Full Bathroom RemodelingComplete renovations planned from layout to final trim.
- 02Shower RemodelingNew shower walls, pans, valves, niches and glass.
- 03Walk-In ShowersLow-threshold and curbless showers with open glass.
- 04Bathtub RemodelingSoaking, alcove and freestanding tub replacements.
- 05Tub-to-Shower ConversionTrading an unused tub for a roomier shower.
- 06Small Bathroom RemodelingSpace planning for hall baths and powder rooms.
- 07Luxury Bathroom RemodelingPrimary suites with stone, steam and custom millwork.
- 08Condo Bathroom RemodelingRemodels planned around HOA and building rules.
- 09ADU BathroomsCompact, durable bathrooms for accessory dwellings.
- 10Bathroom TilePorcelain, zellige and natural stone installation.
- 11Bathroom VanitiesFloating, freestanding and custom vanity installs.
- 12Accessible BathroomsAging-in-place and mobility-friendly bathrooms.
Contact
Contact details
- Phone
- Phone(213) 566-7696
- Hours
- HoursOpen daily, 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM
- Address
- Address700 Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Call us
Talk to us about your bathroom
Call and tell us what isn’t working in the room. We’ll talk through scope, materials and timing, then set up a visit to measure and see the plumbing and structure.
Call for a consultation
(213) 566-7696Open daily, 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM
- Tell us whether it’s a house, condo or ADU
- Describe which bathroom and what you’d like to change
- We arrange a visit to measure and look at the room