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Completed bathroom remodel in Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado · 2026 Pricing

What a bathroom
remodel really
costs here.

No "starting at." No commissioned closer sitting at your table doing arithmetic you can't see. Real ranges from 18 years of Denver-metro projects — from supply-only pans under $2,000 to full custom builds — plus exactly what moves the number in either direction.

The short answer

In Littleton, Colorado, a midrange full bathroom remodel runs $10,000–$18,000 and a full custom tile bathroom runs $15,000–$25,000+. If you're only doing the shower: a one-day Crestline install starts at $6,900, a tub-to-shower conversion runs $8,500–$14,500, and a custom tile shower runs $12,000–$20,000+. Supply-only shower pans start under $2,000 if you're installing yourself, and budget-friendly shower remodels can finish under $10,000 fully installed.

Plenty of Colorado contractors quote $30,000 or more for a single custom shower. Sometimes that's justified. Often it's franchise fees and television advertising. The rest of this page is how to tell which one you're looking at.

Cost by project type

Nine projects, nine honest ranges.

Find the row that matches what you're actually doing. Every range below is a real Denver-metro range, not a teaser number designed to get someone through your front door.

Project Typical range Time on site Best for
Supply-only shower pan Under $2,000 Ships in days DIY or your own contractor
Shower walls onlyExisting pan stays From $4,500 1 day Sound, correctly sloped pan
One-day Crestline shower $6,900 – $10,500 1 day Fastest full shower refresh
Tub-to-shower conversion $8,500 – $14,500 2–4 days Unused tub in a hall bath
Walk-in tub (ADA) From $9,500 2–3 days Aging in place, mobility needs
Midrange full bathroomVanity, floor, fixtures, shower $10,000 – $18,000 2–3 weeks The whole room, sensibly
Curbless barrier-free shower $10,000 – $18,000 3–5 days Zero-threshold, roll-in access
Custom tile shower $12,000 – $20,000+ 1–2 weeks Design-statement shower
Full custom tile bathroom $15,000 – $25,000+ 3–4 weeks Spa-caliber master

Ranges reflect turnkey installation in the Littleton and south Denver metro area as of 2026, including labor, materials, disposal, and cleanup. Permits are passed through at cost where required. Your written quote is fixed after an in-home measure.

Does size matter?

Less than you'd think for showers. A lot for full remodels.

A shower is a shower. Whether it sits in a 35-square-foot hall bath downtown or a 120-square-foot Highlands Ranch master, the wall system, the pan, the valve, and the labor to install them are broadly similar. Shower-only projects barely scale with room size.

Full remodels are different, because flooring, lighting, vanity size, and tile quantity all grow with the footprint. Rough scaling against a small bathroom:

Bathroom sizeSquare feetFull remodel effect
Small / powderUnder 40Baseline
Standard hall bath40 – 80+10%
Master80 – 120+20%
Large master120++30%
Where the money goes

What's actually inside the number.

On a typical Denver-metro bathroom project, the split lands roughly here. Anyone quoting you a lump sum with no visibility into these buckets is asking for trust instead of offering transparency.

Labor40–55%
Materials & fixtures30–45%
Permits, disposal, protection5–10%

A complete quote covers demolition and haul-away, the shower or tub unit, wall surface, pan or base, waterproofing, plumbing valve and connections, fixtures, doors and glass, vanity and counter, flooring, lighting and electrical, permits where required, daily cleanup, and the final walkthrough. If a line is missing from the paper, it isn't in the price.

Up or down

The eight things that actually move your price.

Two identical-looking bathrooms two blocks apart in Littleton can quote thousands apart, and it's almost never about the quality of the work. It's these.

01

Does the drain move?

Keeping the existing drain location is the single biggest cost saver in any bathroom project. Moving it means opening the floor and, in most jurisdictions, a permit.

Adds $1,500–$4,000
02

Subfloor condition

What's underneath a forty-year-old pan is the one thing nobody can quote sight unseen. Sound subfloor, no change. Rot or soft spots, and it gets addressed properly before anything new goes down.

Varies — inspected first
03

Panel system or custom tile

Crestline is a one-day install with no grout and a 30-year manufacturer warranty. Tile is days of skilled labor plus waterproofing and cure time. Both are excellent. They cost differently.

Panel saves 30–45%
04

Doors and glass

A framed slider versus frameless heavy glass can differ by thousands. This is the biggest swing most quotes hide inside a lump sum. We price it as its own line so you can see it and decide.

$400 – $4,000+
05

Valve and plumbing work

Swapping a trim kit is inexpensive. Replacing the valve body, or upgrading to a thermostatic anti-scald valve, means opening a wall. Worth doing in any home with kids or older adults.

Adds $600–$2,500
06

Curbless entry

Zero-threshold requires either a recessed subfloor or a ramped low-profile pan, plus a linear drain. Genuinely worth it if you plan to stay in the home, but it is structural work and it isn't free.

Adds $2,000–$5,000
07

Layout changes

Keeping the existing footprint keeps the project predictable. Enlarging the shower into a closet or moving the vanity wall is a different project with a different number.

Keeping layout saves most
08

Who installs it

Turnkey through our crews with a 5-year workmanship warranty, or supply-only through Showers4Less with your own contractor. Both are real options and the second one is genuinely cheaper.

Supply-only cuts labor entirely
Two ways to buy

Turnkey, or buy it and install it yourself.

Most contractors won't tell you the second option exists because it takes the labor line off their invoice. It's a legitimate way to save real money, and the manufacturer warranty is unaffected.

Turnkey installation

We handle everything: demo, disposal, waterproofing, plumbing, the unit, doors, fixtures, permits, cleanup, and the final walkthrough. One crew, one schedule, one number to call when you have a question.

  • 5-year workmanship warranty on our labor
  • 30-year Best Bath manufacturer warranty passes through
  • Permits pulled where required
  • Fixed written price, no change-order games
  • Licensed plumbing and electrical subcontractors
From$6,900

Supply only

Order the shower pan, wall system, or hydrotherapy bathtub and install it yourself or hand it to a contractor you already trust. Ships nationwide through our sister site.

  • 30-year manufacturer warranty stays in full effect
  • Valid as long as it's installed to manufacturer guidelines
  • Same Best Bath units we install ourselves
  • No workmanship warranty — that covers our crews only
  • Waterproofing responsibility sits with the installer
Pans fromUnder $2,000

Supply-only orders ship through Showers4Less.com. Turnkey work is quoted at a free in-home visit anywhere in the Littleton shower remodel service area.

Permit costs

Small line, large consequences.

Permit fees are set by whichever jurisdiction covers your parcel — City of Littleton, Arapahoe County, Jefferson County, or Douglas County — and each publishes its own schedule, which changes periodically. In practice it's a small fraction of a bathroom budget. A like-for-like fixture swap usually needs no permit. Moving a drain, relocating a valve, adding a circuit or exhaust fan, or enlarging the shower does. We pull it and pass the fee through at cost. The reason this matters isn't the fee — it's that unpermitted bathroom work is one of the top items that renegotiates or kills a Denver-metro real estate deal at inspection.

Return at resale

What you get back when you sell.

The Zonda Cost vs. Value Report consistently places midrange bathroom remodels in the 74–80% national ROI range, near the top of where that category has sat in recent years. In south Denver specifically, bathrooms and kitchens are the two rooms buyers evaluate first. Dated tile, a cracked tub, or visibly unpermitted work tends to cost more in reduced offers than the remodel would have cost outright. Universal-design elements — curbless entry, grab bars, comfort-height fixtures — widen the buyer pool rather than narrowing it.

Timing & financing

When to book, and how to pay for it.

Late winter through early spring is the best window in the Denver metro: more crew availability, fewer backorders, and if you're selling into the summer market you finish with weeks to spare. Bathroom work is interior, so the slower season is an advantage rather than a constraint. On financing, we work with several home improvement lenders offering low-monthly-payment plans, deferred-interest promotions, and long-term fixed-rate options. Rates depend on the lender, amount, term, and credit profile, so we present real terms in writing at the consultation rather than publishing a payment table that would be wrong by the time you read it.

"The cheapest quote that leaves out the pan, the valve, and the glass isn't the cheapest quote. It's the same quote with three pages missing." — Zach Wennstedt, Owner · Aging Safely Baths
Before you sign anything

How to compare three quotes fairly.

Print this. Take it to all three appointments. Quotes that differ by thousands almost always differ in scope, not in value — and this is how you find out which.

  1. Fixed or "starting at"? Get the words "fixed price" in writing. "Starting at" exists because change orders are where a lot of remodelers make their real margin.
  2. Workmanship warranty — what, and how long? Most Colorado remodelers offer one year on labor. Ours is five. Read the actual document, not the brochure.
  3. Who physically does the work? An employed crew you've met, or day-labor subs you'll meet on day one. There's a real quality-control difference.
  4. Are permits included and pulled? If the answer is a shrug, that's your resale disclosure and your homeowner's insurance they're shrugging at.
  5. What's the waterproofing method? Correct answers: Schluter Kerdi membrane, RedGard, or a pre-manufactured sloped pan system. A blank stare is an answer too.
  6. Are doors and glass a separate line? If they're buried in a lump sum, you can't tell whether you're being quoted a framed slider or frameless heavy glass.
  7. What happens if it runs long? A fixed calendar, or "we should be done by whenever." Ask before, not during.
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Straight answers

Cost questions.

A midrange full bathroom remodel in Littleton typically runs $10,000 to $18,000. A full custom tile bathroom with premium fixtures runs $15,000 to $25,000 and up. If you are only redoing the shower, a one-day Crestline installation starts around $6,900, a tub-to-shower conversion runs $8,500 to $14,500, and a custom tile shower runs $12,000 to $20,000 or more. Supply-only shower pans start under $2,000 if you are installing yourself. Budget-friendly shower remodels can finish under $10,000 fully installed.
Sometimes it is justified: a large custom tile shower with frameless heavy glass, relocated plumbing, structural work for a curbless entry, and designer fixtures genuinely costs that much. Often it is not. High quotes in this market frequently reflect national franchise fees, heavy television and radio advertising budgets, and commissioned in-home sales teams rather than better materials or better installation. The way to tell the difference is to ask for the quote broken into lines: labor, wall system or tile, pan, valve and plumbing, doors and glass, permits, disposal. A contractor who cannot or will not itemize is asking you to trust a number rather than understand it.
In order, from least to most expensive: buy a supply-only shower pan or wall system and install it yourself, which starts under $2,000. Next, replace the shower walls only and keep a pan that is still sound and correctly sloped, starting around $4,500. Next, a one-day Crestline installation in the existing footprint from about $6,900. The biggest cost savers in any bathroom project are keeping the existing drain location, keeping the existing layout, and choosing a panel system over custom tile. None of those require compromising on quality.
A complete quote should cover demolition and haul-away, the shower or tub unit, wall surface, pan or base, waterproofing, plumbing valve and connections, fixtures, doors and glass, vanity and countertop if included, flooring, lighting and electrical, permits where required, daily cleanup, and final walkthrough. In a typical Denver-metro project, labor represents roughly 40 to 55 percent of the total, materials and fixtures roughly 30 to 45 percent, and permits, disposal, and protection the remainder. Our quotes are fixed price, which means that number is what you pay unless you change the scope.
Typically $8,500 to $14,500, with most Littleton conversions landing in the middle of that range. The largest variables are whether the existing drain location can be kept, the condition of the subfloor once the tub is out, the door and glass selection, and whether the valve is being replaced or relocated. Conversions in 1960s to 1980s ranches and split-levels through Columbine and Ken Caryl tend to price at the lower end because the rough-in is predictable.
Less than people expect for shower-only projects and quite a lot for full remodels. A shower is a shower whether it sits in a 35 square foot hall bath or a 120 square foot master, so the wall system and labor stay similar. A full remodel scales with square footage because flooring, lighting, vanity size, and tile quantity all grow. As a rough guide, a standard 40 to 80 square foot bathroom adds roughly 10 percent over a small one, a master of 80 to 120 square feet roughly 20 percent, and a large master beyond 120 square feet roughly 30 percent.
Permit fees are set by whichever jurisdiction covers your parcel, which for Littleton addresses is the City of Littleton, Arapahoe County, Jefferson County, or Douglas County, and fee schedules are published by each and change periodically. In practice, permit cost is a small fraction of a bathroom project. We pull the permit where one is required and pass the fee through at cost on the written quote. A like-for-like fixture swap usually does not require a permit. Moving a drain, relocating a valve, adding a circuit or exhaust fan, or enlarging the shower does.
The Zonda Cost vs. Value Report consistently places midrange bathroom remodels in the 74 to 80 percent national ROI range, near the top of where that category has been in recent years. In the south Denver metro specifically, bathrooms and kitchens are the two rooms buyers evaluate first, and dated tile, cracked tubs, or obviously unpermitted work tend to cost more in reduced offers than the remodel would have cost. Universal-design elements such as curbless entry and grab bars tend to widen the buyer pool rather than narrow it.
Yes. We work with several home improvement lenders offering low-monthly-payment plans, deferred interest promotions, and long-term fixed-rate options. Actual rates and terms depend on the lender, the amount financed, the term length, and your credit profile, so we do not publish a payment table that would be wrong by the time you read it. Financing options are presented in writing during the free in-home consultation alongside the fixed-price quote so you can compare the cash number and the financed number side by side.
Put them side by side and check seven things: is the price fixed or starting at, what is the workmanship warranty and its length, who physically performs the work, are permits included, what is the waterproofing method, are doors and glass priced as their own line, and what happens if the project runs past schedule. Quotes that differ by thousands usually differ in scope, not in value. The cheapest quote that excludes the pan, the valve, and the glass is not actually the cheapest quote.
The four that surprise homeowners most: subfloor or framing damage discovered after demolition, which nobody can price sight unseen; drain relocation, which opens the floor and changes the job; shower doors and glass, which can differ by thousands between framed and frameless and are often buried in a lump sum; and valve replacement or relocation, which means opening a wall. A contractor who raises all four before you sign is being straight with you. One who mentions none of them is planning to raise them later as change orders.
Yes, and it is a legitimate strategy. Supply-only shower pans, wall systems, and hydrotherapy bathtubs are available through our sister site Showers4Less.com. You can install the unit yourself or hand it to your own contractor, and the manufacturer warranty remains in full effect as long as it is installed according to manufacturer guidelines. What you give up is our 5-year workmanship warranty, which only covers work our own crews perform, and responsibility for the waterproofing shifts to whoever installs it.
A one-day Crestline shower installation is exactly that. A tub-to-shower conversion runs 2 to 4 days. A custom tile shower runs 1 to 2 weeks including waterproofing and cure time. A midrange full bathroom remodel runs 2 to 3 weeks, and a full custom tile bathroom 3 to 4 weeks from demolition to final walkthrough. We schedule on a fixed calendar rather than leaving a bathroom open with no crew on site.
Late winter through early spring is generally the best window in the Denver metro. Crews have more availability, materials are less likely to be backordered, and if you are selling into the summer market you finish with weeks to spare. Bathroom remodels are interior work, so unlike roofing or exterior painting they are not weather dependent, which is exactly why the slower season is an advantage rather than a constraint.

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