Custom Bathroom Remodeling in Los Angeles, CA

Dick Minium Construction builds custom bathrooms for architecturally significant homes on the Westside of Los Angeles, CA, working with owners and their architects for more than thirty years. If you need custom bathroom remodeling in Los Angeles, CA, done in the materials the house was built from, this is that work: stone, tile, plaster, and millwork set over plumbing, waterproofing, and structure done properly behind the finish. The result is a bathroom built to the drawings and to the architect's intent, made to last as long as the house around it.

What Our Custom Bathroom Remodeling Covers

Every bathroom renovation starts with the house it sits in. The work falls into a few kinds of jobs.

• Primary bathroom renovation. A master bathroom remodel in Los Angeles usually means reworking the room entire: layout, plumbing runs, steam, soaking tubs, custom stone and millwork. We build it to the architect's drawings.
• Full custom bathroom construction. New bathrooms added within a renovation or a residential addition, framed, plumbed, wired, and finished as one job under one contractor.
• Materials matched to the house. Slab stone, handmade tile, microcement, Venetian plaster, custom vanities and metalwork. A microcement bathroom in a modern house and a tiled bath in a 1920s Spanish ask for different hands; we bring the right trades to each.
• Waterproofing and structure behind the finish. Membranes, sloped pans, backing, and framing corrections done before tile goes on. A luxury bathroom renovation fails at the waterproofing first, so that is where the care goes.
• Leak detection, dry rot repair, and plumbing correction. Where an existing bathroom has been leaking, we find the water, eliminate it, repair the rot, and rebuild. Electrical, plumbing, and HVAC work runs through the same workshop.
• Lighting and fixtures set to the design. Fixture placement, art lighting where the room calls for it, and switching laid out with the owner and architect before walls close.

If you are collecting bathroom renovation ideas or modern bathroom ideas from photo galleries, bring them. Pictures tell us what you respond to; the drawings tell us how to build it in your house.

How the Work Runs

1. One call, then a walk-through

You call 310.392.6622. We walk the house with you, look at the existing bathroom, and listen. If you have an architect, we read the drawings. If you do not, we can help you decide whether the project needs one.

2. Design, drawings, and selections

The bathroom gets drawn before it gets demolished. Layout, plumbing locations, stone and tile selections, fixtures, and lighting are settled on paper with the owner and architect. You see what you are building before anyone opens a wall.

3. Demolition and what the walls reveal

Old bathrooms hide their history. We open the room, check framing, look for dry rot and past leaks, and correct the structure and plumbing while everything is exposed. This is the stage that decides whether the finish work lasts.

4. Rough plumbing, electrical, and waterproofing

New supply and drain lines, electrical and ventilation, then membranes and pans, inspected before anything covers them. The waterproofing is the job; the tile is its surface.

5. Finish work and handover

Stone and tile setting, plaster or microcement, millwork, glass, fixtures, and lighting, each trade sequenced so no one damages the work before it. The job ends with a clean, finished room and a walk-through with you. For homes we build or renovate, estate management is available afterward; the house is watched, and the bathroom stays ready.

What Shapes the Investment

The scope of a custom bathroom renovation turns on a few honest factors.

How far the plumbing moves. Keeping fixtures where they are costs less than relocating a tub to the window wall. Moving drains in a slab or over a finished ceiling adds structural and plumbing work.

What the walls hide. Dry rot, past leaks, undersized framing, and old galvanized pipe all get corrected before finish work. In older Westside houses, this is common and worth doing once, properly.

Materials and the labor they demand. Slab marble, bookmatched stone, handmade tile, and microcement each carry their own material cost and their own level of craft. A luxury master bathroom with steam, custom glass, and integrated lighting is a different job from a straightforward refit.

Size, access, and the rest of the house. A bathroom on a third floor, or in an occupied home where the work must be protected and contained, takes more care than an open site.

There is no standard figure for this work because no two of these houses are the same. Call 310.392.6622 and we will look at your bathroom, your drawings, and your selections, and give you a concrete quote for the actual job.

Why Owners and Architects Call Us

Dick Minium Construction is a Westside Los Angeles general contractor for architecturally significant homes and the art inside them. For more than thirty years we have worked with owners, their architects, and collectors on renovations, additions, custom kitchens and baths, hardscape and landscape, all built to the drawings. The workshop runs three doors into one: Build, Install, and Keep.

A bathroom is small enough to seem simple and complicated enough to go wrong in the walls. We have patience for in-depth, highly personal custom work, and we explain the job before we price it: what the drawings call for, what the house will reveal, where the money goes, and what the finished room will be. The quote reflects the actual scope, stated plainly.

We build on the Westside, in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, and West Hollywood, as well as Los Angeles itself.

Custom Bathroom Remodeling Questions, Answered

Do I need an architect for a bathroom renovation?

Not always, but the best bathrooms in significant houses come from a clear design. If the project changes layout, structure, or the character of the room, an architect earns their fee. We work with owners and their architects and build to the architect's intent either way.

What is a microcement bathroom?

Microcement is a thin, seamless cementitious finish applied over walls, floors, and sometimes tub and shower surrounds. It suits modern houses that want continuous surfaces without grout lines. Done over proper waterproofing, it is durable; done over a bad substrate, it cracks, so the preparation matters more than the product.

What matters most in a luxury bathroom renovation?

The work you never see. Waterproofing membranes, sloped pans, correct framing, and clean plumbing decide whether the stone and tile last decades or fail in five years. We put the care behind the finish first, then set the finish over it.

Can you fix a bathroom that has been leaking?

Yes. Leak detection and elimination is part of the workshop, along with dry rot repair. We find the source, stop the water, repair the damaged structure, and rebuild the bathroom so the problem does not return.

Do you handle the plumbing and electrical yourselves?

Yes. Electrical, plumbing, and HVAC run through the same workshop as the finish trades, under one contractor. One call covers the whole job, from demolition through the last light fixture.

What should I bring to the first meeting?

Whatever shows us what you want: drawings if you have them, bathroom renovation ideas and photos you have saved, and the problems with the room as it stands. From that we can talk about scope, materials, and what your house will ask of the work.

Get Started

If your bathroom needs to be rebuilt properly, from the structure out to the stone, call us at 310.392.6622. We will walk the room with you, read the drawings, and give you a concrete quote for custom bathroom remodeling in Los Angeles, CA. One call starts the work.

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