Historic and Vintage Bathroom Renovation in Scottsdale, AZ

We offer hex and subway tile matching and salvaged fixture refinishing. Our team provides careful selective demolition and full permit management, delivering bathrooms that keep their character for Scottsdale homes and sound, watertight results for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by an Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured contracting team, we have completed kitchen and bathroom projects of every size, from single tile repairs to complete period-sympathetic rebuilds.

From lifting original hex floor tile intact so it can be relaid over a new waterproofed substrate to hiding a modern thermostatic valve behind a period-correct escutcheon, our team handles every detail. Serving Scottsdale, Old Town, Arcadia and Cave Creek, we deliver patient, respectful, professional work on every vintage bathroom.

What "Historic" Means in Scottsdale

Not Victorian. Scottsdale was founded in 1894 and named for the retired Army chaplain Winfield Scott, but it only incorporated on June 25, 1951. The housing that matters for this kind of work is midcentury and later.

The periods we most often work on locally:

Late 1940s through 1950s. The building wave right after incorporation, concentrated in South Scottsdale and around Old Town. Original bathrooms from this era mean small hex floor tile, 4 by 4 wall tile often in pink, mint or yellow, cast iron tubs, chrome fittings and built-in soap and grab recesses.

1950s and 1960s ranch. The dominant stock in Arcadia, where the citrus groves farmed from 1919 until the mid-1950s were subdivided into the ranch neighborhood that exists now. Low, wide houses with compact original bathrooms.

1970s. Central Scottsdale and the Shea Corridor. Now old enough that original bathrooms are period pieces in their own right, whether or not anyone is nostalgic for them yet.

There is also genuine architectural heritage here. Frank Lloyd Wright wintered at Taliesin West in Scottsdale from 1937 until 1959. Houses influenced by that tradition deserve a contractor who will not strip their character out.

And in Cave Creek, established in 1870 by soldiers from Fort McDowell with gold found in 1873, the territorial and Western building vocabulary is its own tradition entirely.

Period Detail Worth Getting Right

Tile. Original small hex floor tile and 4 by 4 wall tile are both still made, and matching colors is achievable. Where original tile is sound, we can often lift it and relay it over a new bonded waterproofing membrane, which is the answer that keeps the floor and fixes the substrate. Where it is not salvageable, sympathetic reproduction beats a modern format that fights the house.

Tubs. Cast iron with vitreous enamel, a process first applied commercially around 1850 in Austria and Germany, holds heat better than anything modern and is worth saving. Original tubs can be re-enameled rather than replaced. Clawfoot styles, including classic roll rim, slipper and double-ended, were at their most popular from the 1880s through the 1930s, which makes them a period statement rather than a period-correct choice in a 1950s Scottsdale house. Pedestal tubs read art deco.

Fittings. Period-appropriate chrome and nickel are widely available in modern valve bodies, so you can have a thermostatic valve that holds temperature behind an escutcheon that suits the room.

What not to fake. A 1955 bathroom does not want a farmhouse sink or a barn door. Sympathetic means of the house, not of a decade someone else's house belongs to.

Cost in Scottsdale

Estimated ranges.

Cost drivers unique to this work: selective demolition is slow, because the point is not to break what you are keeping. Sourcing period-correct material takes time and sometimes salvage. Re-enameling a cast iron tub is specialist work. And what is found behind the walls in a seventy-year-old bathroom is genuinely unpredictable, so we price a contingency rather than issuing a change order.

Timeline

Five to ten weeks of construction, which is longer than an equivalent standard bathroom for two reasons: selective demolition cannot be rushed, and period material sourcing takes time. Add four to twelve weeks for sourcing ahead of the start.

Related Services

For an unrestricted modern rebuild see master bathroom remodeling or family bathroom remodeling. Period powder rooms are covered under half bath refreshes, compact original bathrooms under compact bathroom renovation, and layout changes under changing the bathroom floor plan. We apply the same approach to period kitchens, see whole-kitchen renovation. See all of our bathroom work.

Why Homeowners Trust Us With Original Bathrooms

Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured, with general liability coverage in force. Selective demolition by hand where material is being saved. A written contingency for what is behind seventy-year-old walls rather than a change order after opening them. Modern waterproofing, plumbing and wiring behind period finishes. And the judgment to tell you when a feature is worth saving and when it is simply old.

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Coverage

Where we work

Scottsdale Kitchen Remodeling Pros works the northeast Valley along Loop 101, Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard, from Old Town north to DC Ranch and Desert Mountain. Outside the city limits we take this work to our Arcadia, Phoenix page, high-desert kitchens in Carefree and kitchen remodeling in Cave Creek.

• Old Town Scottsdale
• McCormick Ranch
• Gainey Ranch
• Scottsdale Ranch
• DC Ranch
• Silverleaf
• Grayhawk
• Troon North
• Desert Mountain
• McDowell Mountain Ranch
• Arcadia edge
• North Scottsdale

City pages

• Paradise Valley
• Arcadia, Phoenix
• Carefree
• Cave Creek
• Fountain Hills