Bathroom remodeling with Higgason Homes means one Eastside team designs your new bathroom and then builds it, with no handoff in the middle. We remodel primary suites, kids’ baths and powder rooms all over Kirkland, and the first step is a free visit to your home. Call (425) 577-8512 or pick a time online, and we will come see the room with you.
What Our Kirkland Bathroom Remodeling Service Includes
- Full custom remodels: primary suites, guest bathrooms and powder rooms.
- Showers and tubs: walk-in or curbless showers, and freestanding or built-in tubs.
- Vanities and surfaces: custom vanities, tile, natural stone and quartz, plus heated floors if you want them.
- The trades behind the walls: plumbing, electrical, ventilation and lighting, done by our own trusted trades.
- Accessibility: aging-in-place upgrades that suit the room.
- Permits and code: we take care of permits, inspections and code compliance from the first day to the last.
Kirkland Houses and Their Bathrooms
The age of a Kirkland house hints at what is behind the old bathroom walls. Highlands streets still follow an 1890 plat drawn for Peter Kirk’s Kirkland Land and Improvement Company. Interstate 405 arrived in the late 1950s and 1960s and became the neighborhood’s eastern edge.
Closer to downtown, Everest was farmland supplying produce, milk and eggs to Seattle until it joined Kirkland in 1949. Across the freeway, Rose Hill went from rural land to suburb over the following decades. Rose Hill Elementary opened in 1954 and Mark Twain Elementary in 1955. Kirkland annexed most of North Rose Hill in 1988.
Kingsgate, in northeast Kirkland, grew from a plan by Murdock MacPherson, who named the first Kingsgate subdivision in 1963. His Kingsgate Highlands community of 957 lots took shape from 1965 to 1976, and Hazen Hills, Forest Grove and Firloch came along between 1968 and 1989. Kingsgate stayed in unincorporated King County until 2011. In a bathroom from the 1960s or 1970s, it pays to look at the supply lines, the vent fan and the subfloor before you fall in love with a tile.
Our Design-Build Process in Kirkland
- In-home assessment: We talk about your goals, style, budget and timing, and record the existing bathroom with photos, measurements and notes.
- Preliminary proposals: A contractor proposal prices the construction and sets a payment schedule, and a designer proposal covers the first cabinetry plan.
- Deposit: A non-refundable 10 percent deposit holds your spot on our calendar. If you stop there, it covers the management work already done.
- Design: Mood boards and space planning come first, then the floor plan, electrical plan, elevations and renderings. You pick finishes, hardware, lighting and plumbing fixtures with us.
- Final scope and cost: You review the final budget, then pay the designer proposal in full, 75 percent of cabinetry and half of the construction price.
- Construction: Your project manager runs purchasing, lines up vendors and subcontractors, and sees the installation through, ending with a professional cleaning.
- Final payments: The cabinet balance is owed at shipping, and construction bills arrive in steps, each due within three days.
We back every project with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. A job is not finished until you sign off on it.
What a Kirkland Bathroom Remodel Costs
We post our bathroom pricing openly in our 2026 Eastside remodel cost guide. Each kind of bathroom has a Good, Better and Best level:
- Primary bathroom: from $80k (Good), from $100k (Better), and $120k and up (Best).
- Hall bathroom: from $35k (Good), from $42k (Better), and $50k and up (Best).
- Powder room: $15k and up.
These planning numbers cover design, labor, permitting, painting, and the materials and fixtures named for each level, but not appliances or code work found during construction. Scope matters more than size. A remodel that relocates plumbing, wiring or HVAC will cost more than one that upgrades the finishes inside the current layout.
Permits in Kirkland
Kirkland’s Development Services Center at City Hall, 123 Fifth Avenue, handles residential permits through MyBuildingPermit.com. The city’s plumbing, mechanical and electrical permit page says plumbing and electrical systems each need a permit, and so does installing, altering, moving or replacing a mechanical system. Its permit guide exempts a same-spot toilet or sink swap only if no plumbing lines, gas lines or circuits change. Tile, cabinets and countertops count as finish work, while taking out or putting up drywall does require a permit. Kirkland runs its own electrical permits and inspections. Our project manager pulls the Kirkland permits and books every inspection.
Recent Bathroom Remodels near Kirkland
Recent Projects in and near Kirkland
Our nearby bathroom work includes:
- Woodinville Bathroom Remodel: Just north of Kirkland, a primary bath now sits under a new skylight, with a freestanding soaking tub and a walk-in tile shower that has a built-in bench.
- Zhang Bathroom Remodel: In neighboring Redmond, the Zhang bathroom features custom tile and updated fixtures.
- Redmond Bathroom Remodel: Another Redmond bath, managed in-house by our team from design through final installation.
- Bruns Primary Bath Remodel: South of Kirkland in Bellevue, the Bruns primary bathroom received custom tile and new fixtures.
What Eastside Homeowners Say
Kirkland Bathroom Remodeling FAQs
Is a permit needed to swap a toilet or sink in Kirkland?
Not if the new fixture goes in the same place and no plumbing lines, gas lines or electrical circuits change. Kirkland treats that as an exempt like-for-like swap, and tile, cabinets and countertops are finish work. A new shower layout, moved drains, new circuits or drywall removal all need a permit, and your project manager files those for you.
Who inspects the electrical work in a Kirkland bathroom?
The City of Kirkland does. Kirkland is one of the Washington cities that issue their own electrical permits, so new lighting, heated floor circuits or a fan circuit are permitted and inspected locally, with inspections booked through MyBuildingPermit.com. Your project manager handles the scheduling.
How much does a primary bathroom remodel cost in Kirkland?
Our published pricing starts a primary bathroom at $80k for the Good level, $100k for Better and $120k and up for Best. At Good, the fixtures stay put. Best adds a new tub, an expanded tile shower with a seat, natural stone surfaces, and the option to relocate fixtures. Your exact number comes in a written proposal after design.
Can we keep living at home while our Kirkland bathroom is remodeled?
Yes, that is the usual arrangement. Our crew closes off the work area, covers the floors and the path through the hall, and tidies up before leaving each afternoon. In a one-bathroom Kirkland house, we schedule around that and are honest with you about the days it will be unusable.
Can you design a curbless shower or other aging-in-place features?
Yes. Curbless showers and aging-in-place upgrades are part of our bathroom service, and we design them to fit the look of the room. We talk through the options during the design phase, show them in the floor plan and renderings, and our own crew builds them in your Kirkland home.
See all of our work in the city on our Kirkland home remodeling page, read more about our custom bathroom remodeling service, or plan a second room with kitchen remodeling in Kirkland.