Bathroom Remodeling in Cerritos
Serving 90703 and Artesia, La Palma, Norwalk
The bathrooms that came with these Cerritos houses have been in service for half a century: a compact hall bath with a tub, a small primary bath with a stall shower, and tile chosen when the tract was being sold. They are not failing so much as finished, and because the houses are flat, accessible and structurally simple, rebuilding them is efficient work. The interesting question in most of these houses is not how to redo the bathroom that exists but whether the plan can support a better one.
Real projects. Real prices.
73 finished remodels published with their final price — nothing hidden.
What 28 finished LA bathrooms actually cost: a median of $38k, in a range of $28k–$105k. Real final prices from our own job records, not estimates.
$28,000 Stacked white tile and a blue patterned floor, with brushed brass fittings and a round mirror.
$30,000 A deep navy wall over textured white tile, with a floating walnut vanity and matte black fittings.
$35,000 A patterned encaustic-look floor, a sage shaker vanity and a glass shower with a tiled bench.
$45,000 Rust and blue slate-tone tile over a pebble mosaic shower floor, with bronze fittings.
$46,000 One room in bold geometric tile with an oak vanity, one in white with a ribbed vanity and stone basin.
$105,000 Marble-veined slab walls, a frameless glass shower, and patterned tile floors.
Tract bathrooms after fifty years
Rebuilding versus rearranging
A straight rebuild in the existing footprint is quick and effective. But in many of these plans a hallway, a closet or an over-sized bedroom next door offers the space to make the primary bath genuinely comfortable, and that possibility is worth testing before the simpler option is chosen by default.
The five-foot tub and what replaces it
The standard alcove tub of the era is the defining fixture in these rooms. Whether it stays — for children, for resale, for preference — or gives way to a proper shower is a decision that should be made deliberately for the household rather than copied from a showroom display.
Original waste lines, fifty years on
Drainage in houses of this vintage has done a long shift. Opening a bathroom is the natural moment to look at it properly and renew what deserves renewing, which is far cheaper now than through a finished floor later.
A predictable online submittal
Plans go to the city's own Building & Safety Division and applications are processed online. Fixture-for-fixture work carries little paperwork; anything moving plumbing or altering walls travels best with a proper drawing set.
Finding room for a second bathroom
Many of these plans were built with one full bathroom and a compact second, which is thin provision for the households they now hold. The good news is that tract houses of this era usually contain a candidate: an over-long hallway, an oversized bedroom, a laundry that could move, or a garage corner adjacent to existing drainage. Testing those options properly — against the plumbing runs that already exist, the structure, and what the household would actually give up — is worth doing before defaulting to a straight rebuild of what is there. A second bathroom changes daily life in these houses more than a better version of the first one.
Written by Onn Cohen-Meguri, founder and designer at Design Onn Point — 12+ years in business, 1,200+ finished Los Angeles projects. CSLB #1133368.
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