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Every house in Westwood Hills sits inside a National Register historic district, and most of them still have the bathroom they were built with. That is the starting point for almost every bathroom remodeling in Westwood Hills, KS project we take on: a small, original room with plaster walls, a cast iron tub, and supply lines that have been quietly doing their job since the 1920s. We do not treat that like new construction. We open it up carefully, find out what is actually behind the tile, and rebuild it to last another few decades.
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Most of these houses went up in the 1920s and 1930s, laid out as one plan. Steep Tudor rooflines, arched entries, brick and stucco. Beautiful houses. Complicated bathrooms.
Here is what we routinely find in a bathroom renovation here once the wall comes off:
Hex floors and 4x4 wall tile set in a thick mud bed. It comes out heavy, and it usually takes some plaster with it.
Still flowing, but narrowed by decades of scale. If we are already in the wall, this is the moment to replace them.
Often fine, sometimes not. We scope it before we quote instead of discovering it on day two.
Second-floor baths over a first-floor ceiling are where slow leaks go unnoticed for years. We check the framing and subfloor before anyone signs anything.
A lot of these homes ventilate through a single small window, which is not enough for a modern shower.
Five by seven, five by eight, and the occasional bath tucked under a sloped ceiling.
This is closer to bathroom reconstruction than redecorating, and it is why a surface-level bid from a company that mostly works in newer homes tends to fall apart mid-project.
The most common bathroom remodel bathtub question we hear in Westwood Hills is whether the original cast iron can stay. Sometimes it can, refinished and reset. Sometimes it is chipped through, undersized, or a two-man wrestling match to get down a 1920s staircase. We tell you which one you have.
A small bathroom remodel is the default here, not the exception. Nichols laid these lots out tight; the houses average one and a half to two and a half stories, and the original baths were sized for a household that shared one.
What we have seen actually buy back space:
What we will not do is promise you a spa suite in 38 square feet. We will tell you honestly what the footprint can hold before you spend anything.
A lot of residents here have been in the same house for decades and have no interest in leaving. In these two-story homes, the main bath is upstairs, so the tub wall is usually the first thing that gets in the way. Pulling that tub and building a low-threshold or curbless shower in the same footprint solves most of it, keeps every inch of floor, and makes the room far easier for a spouse or caregiver to work in.
Worth adding while the wall is open:
Tell us who else needs to use the room, and we will size the plan to your house.
Every bathroom is different, and in a 100-year-old house, what is behind the wall moves the number more than the tile you pick. Our working ranges:
| Project | Typical Range |
|---|---|
| Shower installation or tub to shower conversion | $4,500 to $12,000 |
| Bathtub replacement | $4,500 to $12,000 |
| Full bathroom remodel | $14,000 to $35,000 |
A same-footprint refresh with new finishes sits at the low end. A full rebuild that relocates plumbing, replaces galvanized supply lines, repairs framing, and adds proper venting sits higher. You get a written, guaranteed figure at the consultation, and that is the figure you pay.
Every property here contributes to a National Register historic district, which may make you eligible for the Kansas Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit. In small cities like this one, it runs 40% of qualified expenses, with a $5,000 minimum, on plans placed in service after July 1, 2025.
Two conditions decide it:
Not every bathroom expense qualifies, and we are not tax advisors, but we will hold your schedule so the review happens first. Start with SHPO at 785-272-8681.
This trips up out-of-area contractors constantly, so here is how it actually works.
Westwood Hills does not run its own building department. The City of Westwood’s Building Codes Division issues the permits and does the inspections, submitted through Westwood’s online portal.
A few specifics:
We handle the application, the fees, and the inspections. You never log into a portal.
We measure, photograph, and walk the room with you. In these houses, we also check the framing and subfloor for moisture, look at what the supply lines and drain stack are made of, and find a workable path for the exhaust vent. The goal is that the surprises show up on paper, not on day three.
You get a clear, itemized number with no hidden fees. If you are pursuing the state historic tax credit, we build the SHPO review into the schedule before anything gets ordered.
We file through the Westwood portal, order every material specifically for your project, and lock in an install date. Most projects run four to six weeks from the first call to the first day of work, because the materials are custom.
One crew, your bathroom only, no bouncing between jobs. Once work begins, most projects wrap in one to two weeks. We stage materials and park with the street in mind, because the interior streets here are narrow, they wind, they have speed bumps, and the driveways are short. Your neighbors will still be able to get out of their garages. We clean up at the end of every day and haul the debris out ourselves.
We are not a general contractor who also takes bathrooms. Bathrooms are the only thing we do.
Westwood Hills is bounded by State Line Road, Rainbow Boulevard, W. 48th Terrace, and W. 50th Terrace, so almost everything is within a few minutes. We work throughout northeast Johnson County and the wider metro, including Mission, Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, and Shawnee, plus Westwood, Mission Woods, Fairway, Roeland Park, Prairie Village, and Mission Hills.
The district designation is about the property, and interior work generally raises fewer concerns than exterior changes. Anything that changes the outside of the house, such as a new roof vent or sidewall vent for an exhaust fan, does need to be permitted. If you are pursuing the state tax credit, all of the work has to meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards.
Sometimes. If the finish is sound and the tub fits your plan, refinishing and resetting it is a legitimate option, and it preserves an original feature. If it is chipped through the porcelain or undersized for how you use the room, we will say so and price the replacement.
If your bathroom has a slow leak, a tub nobody uses, tile that has outlived its mortar bed, or a layout that never worked, we can help. Schedule a free in-home consultation, and we will walk the room with you, tell you what we find, and put a real number on paper.
Call today for your free quote and let The Shower Company handle your bathroom remodeling in Westwood Hills, KS from the first measurement to the final walkthrough.
