Small Bathroom Remodeling in Scottsdale, AZ

We offer large-format tile setting and full membrane waterproofing. Our team provides measured clearance planning and tightly sequenced scheduling, delivering compact bathrooms that feel twice their size for Scottsdale homes and 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 35 square foot hall baths to compact en suites.

From swapping a swinging door for a pocket door to recover 9 square feet to running floor tile straight into a curbless shower so the eye never stops, our team handles every detail. Serving Scottsdale, Old Town, Fountain Hills and Arcadia, we deliver efficient, clever, professional work on every small bathroom.

Making a Small Bathroom Feel Bigger

Every one of these is a construction decision, and together they change a room more than any paint color will.

Go curbless. A shower with no curb and no threshold lets the floor tile run continuously from the door into the shower. The eye reads one floor instead of two zones, and the room gains apparent size immediately. It also happens to be the best accessibility decision available. This is a fully waterproofed floor with a slope to the drain rather than a raised pan.

Clear glass, no frame. A frameless clear glass panel keeps the sight line running to the far wall. A framed enclosure with obscured glass cuts the room in half visually. If the budget is tight, a single fixed panel with no door is cheaper than a hinged enclosure and works better in a small room.

Wall-hung fixtures. A wall-hung vanity and a wall-hung toilet with a concealed carrier both leave visible floor underneath. Continuous visible floor is the single strongest cue that a room is larger than it is. A wall-hung toilet also gains you roughly 6 to 9 inches of projection over a standard floor-mount.

Large-format tile. Fewer grout lines means fewer visual interruptions. The old advice that small tile suits small rooms is backwards. Large-format porcelain on floor and walls, with matching grout, is the move.

Pocket or barn door. A standard 30-inch door sweeps about 9 square feet of floor that then cannot hold anything. In a 40 square foot bathroom that is a quarter of the room. A pocket door recovers all of it.

One light source is not enough. Even, bright lighting makes a small room read as open. At the mirror, two sources separated by at least a foot rather than a single downlight overhead, which shadows faces and makes the room feel like a closet.

Niches instead of shelves. A recessed niche between studs stores what a shelf would without projecting into the shower.

When the Answer Is to Change the Footprint

Sometimes the room is simply too small for what you want, and the honest answer is to take space from somewhere else. Options, in order of cost:

• Absorbing a linen closet or a hall closet backing onto the bathroom
• Moving a non-bearing partition a foot or two into an adjacent room
• Combining two small bathrooms into one good one
• Adding a bathroom elsewhere, see adding a bath where none exists

Moving a wall is significantly cheaper than most people assume when it is non-bearing and nothing plumbed is in it. See bathroom layout reconfiguration.

Small Bathroom Remodel Cost in Scottsdale

Estimated ranges.

Small rooms are not cheap per square foot, and it is worth understanding why. A bathroom has the same number of trades, the same waterproofing requirement, the same permit and the same fixture count whether it is 40 square feet or 140. Only the tile and flooring quantities scale down. Expect a high cost per square foot and a low total.

Timeline

Two to four weeks of construction for most small bathrooms, plus two to four weeks of ordering. Glass is measured after tiling and adds two to three weeks at the end.

A single-bathroom house needs sequencing care. Tell us at the estimate and we will compress the fixture-out window as far as the work allows.

Related Services

For toilet-and-sink rooms see powder room renovation. For a fully open waterproofed room see wet room conversion. Curbless design overlaps heavily with barrier-free bathrooms. Secondary baths are covered under family bathroom remodeling, and condo units under remodeling a condo bathroom. See all of our bathroom work.

Why Homeowners Choose Us for Small Bathrooms

Arizona ROC licensed, bonded and insured, with general liability coverage in force. A drawn layout with clearances before ordering, which matters more in a small room than a large one. Waterproofing named and leak tested. In-house tile crews who can hold a grout line across a curbless transition. Tight sequencing so a single-bathroom house is not out of service longer than necessary.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Remodel Your Small Scottsdale Bathroom

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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 hillside kitchens in Fountain Hills, our Paradise Valley work and kitchen renovation in Arcadia.

• 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