Bathroom remodeling · Encinitas
Bathroom remodeling in Encinitas, designed and built by one team.
A Kaminskiy bathroom remodel starts with how you use the room, not with a catalog. Our designers draw the layout, our drafters handle the plumbing, the structure and the permits, and our own crews build it, on one contract with the price in writing before demolition. Award-winning in San Diego.
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Bathroom remodeling in Encinitas
The room that starts and ends your day, designed around how you use it.
A bathroom remodel is the project San Diego homeowners put off the longest and enjoy the most: a shower you can walk into, a vanity with storage that works, light where you need it, and tile that will still be dry behind the wall in twenty years.
Kaminskiy designs and builds bathroom remodels across San Diego County, from hall baths to master bathroom suites, on one fixed-price contract,. A freestanding tub under the window, a walk-in shower with a bench and a niche, a double vanity with drawers instead of doors, a linen tower where a blank wall stood, ventilation that actually clears the steam. Our designers, architectural drafters and project managers take your bathroom from the first sketch to the final walkthrough on one contract, with one fixed price before anything is demolished. Founded in San Diego by Sergei Kaminskiy, and still founder-led.
Leucadia, Old Encinitas, Olivenhain and New Encinitas each have their own character, from surf cottages to ranch homes on big lots, and each is a place we have built. Permits for bathroom remodels in Encinitas are issued by the City of Encinitas. Our design and architectural team drafts the construction documents, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and we submit them and manage the whole process for you. Parts of Encinitas sit in the coastal zone, which adds a coastal development review to some projects; we plan for it from the first meeting.
Start with a complimentary consultationBathrooms in Encinitas
Encinitas bathrooms: one bath too few, and damp from the marine layer.
The cottages west of the tracks were built with one bathroom, and the 1970s tract homes with a primary bath that is all tub. Two of our five Encinitas projects are baths, including a primary suite, and the requests repeat: a second bath where there was none, a walk-in shower where the tub was, and ventilation that actually clears the room during May and June.
Carving a second bathroom out of a closet, a corner of a bedroom or the end of a hall is the most common Encinitas bath project west of the tracks. It needs a new drain line, which in a raised-floor cottage is easier than in a slab, and a building permit from the City of Encinitas. Inside the walls it is exempt from the coastal permit.
Encinitas bathrooms stay damp for weeks in late spring. A fan sized to the room, vented to the outside rather than the attic, on a timer, is the single most useful line in the plan. Paint, grout and cabinet finishes last years longer with it.
Corner tub out, walk-in shower in, often curbless; storage where the tub deck was; and the window over the old tub becomes the room's light. Our Encinitas primary bath suite in the gallery is the version most clients start from.
Cottage owners adding the bath the house never had, families giving kids a hall bath two can share, and long-time Encinitas residents planning a curbless shower for the decades ahead. The first meeting is at your home.
Finishes are chosen at our Design Center in Rancho Bernardo, about 30 minutes off peak; your designer comes to you for the first meeting.
Our work in Encinitas
Encinitas remodels. Real homes. Real families.
Every photo below is a Kaminskiy project in Encinitas, designed and built by our own team. Open any project for the full gallery, and follow the galleries to see hundreds more across the county.
Remodeling in Encinitas
Every service in Encinitas. One local team.
This page is about bathroom remodeling in Encinitas. Every other Kaminskiy service has its own Encinitas page too, and the neighborhoods around Encinitas have theirs: the same designers, project managers and crews, from one Design Center.
Nearby neighborhoods
We design and build bathrooms in every neighborhood of San Diego County. See the San Diego bathroom remodeling page or schedule a consultation.
The Encinitas bathroom remodeling guide
Bathroom remodeling in Encinitas, in detail.
How a bathroom remodel goes in an Encinitas house.
Where it can go, how the drain reaches the main line, and what it costs in a raised-floor cottage versus a slab tract home. We find the spot at the first visit.
Shower in place of the tub, real storage, better light, and a layout that lets two people get ready at once.
Marine-grade hardware and fixtures west of the tracks, large-format tile with fewer grout lines, and a catalyzed vanity finish.
A City of Encinitas building permit; coastal review only if the exterior changes. Three to five months from the first visit to completion. A kitchen in the same project shares the permit.
Kitchen remodeling in EncinitasGood questions
Encinitas bathroom remodeling FAQ: a few straight answers before you call.
Cost, timelines, permits with the City of Encinitas, value, living with one bathroom and the Express option. More on the full FAQ page.
Read all FAQsNothing. The in-home design consultation is complimentary anywhere in Encinitas. A designer comes to your home, listens to what you want to change, takes measurements and photos, and tells you honestly whether we are the right fit for the project.
We do. Permits for bathroom remodels in Encinitas are issued by the City of Encinitas. Our design and architectural team drafts the construction documents, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and we submit them and manage the whole process for you. Parts of Encinitas sit in the coastal zone, which adds a coastal development review to some projects; we plan for it from the first meeting.
Usually, yes. A closet, part of a bedroom or the end of a hall becomes the bath, and the raised floor of most cottages makes the new drain line a planned step. We find the spot at the first visit.
Three to five months from the first visit to completion, with design and the City permit first.
Usually a small fan vented into the attic, during a marine layer that can last weeks. A fan sized to the room, vented outside and on a timer fixes it, and it is part of every bath we design here.
It depends on the size of the room, how much of the layout changes, and the tile, vanity and fixtures you choose. In San Diego a small hall bath refresh starts around fifteen thousand dollars, most full bathroom remodels run from twenty to thirty thousand, and a large primary suite with a walk-in shower and a freestanding tub runs well past seventy-five thousand. Cabinetry and tile labor are the biggest lines. What we promise is a fixed price in writing before anything is demolished: at the design and bid presentation you see every line of the scope, the contract and the schedule together. The bathroom cost calculator on this page gives an honest range in about sixty seconds.
If the plumbing, the electrical or the structure changes, yes, and most real bathroom remodels touch at least one of those. Swapping a faucet, a toilet or a vanity in the same place, or new paint, generally does not need one. We draw the plans, submit them to the city or the county, and schedule the inspections, so the permits are never your problem.
It varies with the scope and the neighborhood. In the 2023 Pacific-region cost versus value data a midrange bathroom remodel recouped about 62 percent of its cost at resale, a universal design bathroom about 43 percent and an upscale bathroom about 33 percent. An updated bathroom is also one of the first rooms San Diego buyers look at. The bigger return is daily: a bathroom that works the way you start and end the day.
Cabinetry and tile, usually in that order. The vanity, its top and any linen tower are the largest material line, and tile is the most labor to install well: every wet area has to be waterproofed, flat and level before the first piece goes on. Moving the plumbing, a frameless glass shower and a freestanding tub are the next lines that move a budget. Our designers show you where a dollar changes the look and where it does not.
Not that bathroom. From demolition to the final cleanup the room is a job site, and the water to it is off for part of the work. Most families use a second bathroom; in a one-bathroom home we plan the schedule around it at the pre-construction meeting so the toilet and a shower are back as early as the work allows.
Start here
Schedule your complimentary in-home design consultation for your bathroom remodel, anywhere in Encinitas.
- A designer comes to you, measures, listens and shares first ideas.
- No pressure and no obligation. We tell you if we are not the right fit.
- Our Client Care team calls back during the time slot you choose.