*Limited Time Offer* Up to $1,500 off Bathroom Remodeling, or 0% Financing for 60 Months
*Limited Time Offer* Up to $1,500 off Bathroom Remodeling, or 0% Financing for 60 Months
Whether you’re looking for a walk-in shower remodel or ready to update your outdated fixtures, Hometown Restyling can bring your dream bathroom to life. For 40 years, we’ve been providing trusted, friendly, local service with a personal touch. Homeowners regularly compliment our installers on their professionalism and dedication to quality, and we stand behind our work for life.
Reach out for a free quote today. We’ll help you add value to your home while making your space more functional with a bathroom remodel.
You don’t realize how much time you spend in your bathroom until it becomes a space you dread. No matter the size of the project, we can help you design a bathroom that fits your needs and budget, or create an additional bathroom in your home.
Our services include:
Give your bathroom a fresh look and feel with a tub to walk-in shower conversion. Hometown Restyling can get your new bathroom ready to use in as little as a few days!
Bathtub to shower conversions are popular bathroom remodeling projects. They provide a safer alternative to climbing over bathtub walls and create a more sophisticated style for your bathroom. Best of all, our walk-in showers are more affordable than traditional shower remodels and can be installed in a variety of styles and colors.
At Hometown Restyling, our walk-in shower remodels are engineered to withstand the test of time. Our showers resist chipping, cracking, and mold/mildew growth. With our low-maintenance acrylic shower systems, tough scrubbing is a thing of the past.
Our process also makes your walk-in shower installation project faster and less stressful. After we take measurements and photos of your existing bathroom, our team designs a new shower that maximizes your space. With so many options, it’s easy to create your dream bathroom!
Are you looking for a safer alternative to a slippery shower? Would you prefer a luxurious soak in the tub after a long day? Create a stylishly functional bathroom with a shower to tub conversion. In as little as a few days, Hometown Restyling will remodel your bathroom to fit your needs.
Our unique process and superior bathtub materials allow us to replace your existing wet area with a brand-new, top-quality tub-shower in a fraction of the time of a traditional remodel. Our professional bathroom remodeling team takes detailed measurements and photos of your bathroom, designing a bathtub that suits your tastes and fits seamlessly into your shower space.
A bath conversion eliminates the hassle and high price tag of a traditional bathroom remodel. Our tub-shower combinations are created using extremely durable acrylic, making them as long-lasting as they are tasteful and stylish. The non-porous material also makes them low-maintenance and ready to withstand the test of time.
With a variety of style and color options, finding a tub-shower combo that matches your home is easy! As a trusted Eastern Iowa home remodeling company, Hometown Restyling offers the highest-quality surrounds at a price you can afford, and we stand by our work, offering a limited lifetime warranty on all bathtub conversions.
Prefer to relax in the shower? A barrier-free shower is a great alternative to a walk-in tub. The low-barrier shower has an open side that is level to the floor, which eliminates the need to step over a high shower wall and allows wheelchair accessibility. This unique shower floor is the perfect solution for those with limited mobility who want to maintain their bathing independence.
As an exclusive Bath Planet dealer, Hometown Restyling provides affordable remodels and can have your new bathroom ready to use in as little as a few days!
Our experts employ an innovative process to efficiently take measurements of your existing space and custom fit a barrier-free shower base to your bathroom. We offer a variety of accessories, including built-in seating, grab bars, customized shelving and more.
Bath Planet products are created using a tough acrylic that won’t crack, chip, or dent. Your shower will maintain its sleek look and appearance for years to come. Barrier-free showers are also easy to clean. The durable material resists dirt and grime buildup and even prevents growth of mold and mildew.
Design a bathroom that will accommodate your needs now and in the future. We have a certified Aging in Place specialist on staff to help you create an attractive space with greater functionality to address any special needs.
Hometown Restyling partners with Bath Planet, a respected manufacturer of acrylic bath and shower systems, to offer low-hassle, affordable solutions to bathroom remodeling.
Why Choose Bath Planet Products?
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We offer great financing options, including no-interest financing, to make your bathroom remodeling project more affordable. Start the pre-approval process today.
Bathroom remodel costs in Eastern Iowa vary widely based on the scope and size of the project. A powder room (half-bath with sink and toilet only) typically runs $2,000 to $8,000. A 5×8 full bathroom update with new fixtures, flooring, and a tub/shower surround generally falls between $10,000 and $18,000. A mid-range remodel of a larger full bath, including quartz countertops, a new vanity, tile flooring, and a walk-in shower, typically runs $15,000 to $30,000. A custom tile shower installed as a standalone upgrade costs $25,000 to $35,000 or more. Upscale primary bathroom remodels, or adding a brand-new bathroom to a home, can range from $55,000 to $75,000+.
The biggest cost drivers are bathroom size, whether any plumbing or electrical is moved, material selection (particularly tile vs. acrylic for the shower), and the quality of fixtures. Building in a 10% contingency is also smart. Older Eastern Iowa homes commonly have hidden water damage or outdated wiring that surfaces during demolition.
Read more: How Much Does a Bathroom Remodel Cost in Eastern Iowa?
A custom tile shower is built one tile at a time on-site, and includes any size, shape, or pattern, with virtually unlimited design options. It’s the most customizable option and can create a genuinely stunning result. The tradeoff is time (installation typically takes one to two weeks plus grout curing time), cost ($20,000 to $40,000 or more as part of a larger remodel), and ongoing maintenance: grout lines need regular cleaning and periodic sealing to prevent mold and staining.
An acrylic shower system is a made-to-measure, non-porous wet area that’s fabricated off-site to your exact bathroom dimensions and installed in one to two days. Because the surface is non-porous, there’s no grout to scrub or seal, and it resists mold and mildew naturally. Acrylic systems typically cost $7,000 to $18,000 installed depending on size, features, and configuration. For a primary suite where the shower is a design centerpiece, custom tile often earns its premium. For a bathroom where speed, budget, or low maintenance is the priority, an acrylic system delivers a beautiful, durable result in a fraction of the time.
Read more: Custom Tile vs. Acrylic Shower Systems: Ideas Transforming Eastern Iowa Bathrooms
Timeline depends almost entirely on the type and scope of work. A wet-area upgrade using an acrylic shower system can typically be completed in one to two days, with minimal disruption to your home. A basic cosmetic update, such as a new vanity, flooring, lighting, and fixtures without moving plumbing, usually takes one to two weeks of active construction. A full custom remodel (new tile, plumbing changes, layout modifications) takes three to six weeks of construction, plus one to three weeks for design and planning, plus four to ten weeks for permitting and material ordering up front.
The phase homeowners most often underestimate is the front end. Design consultations, material selections, permit approvals, and lead times for fixtures and tile all add to the calendar before a single wall comes down. We don’t start demolition until materials are in hand, which means your bathroom won’t be left torn apart while you wait. Total time from your first consultation to a finished bathroom is typically two to five months for a full remodel, or as little as a few weeks for a focused upgrade.
Read more: How Long Does It Take to Remodel a Bathroom?
A tub-to-shower conversion is one of the most popular bathroom upgrades in Eastern Iowa, and for many households it’s the right call. The case for converting: if you never use the tub, a walk-in shower reclaims that square footage and makes mornings faster and easier. Walk-in showers also improve accessibility for aging in place, eliminate the step-over hazard of a tub wall, and give the bathroom a more modern, open feel.
The case for keeping a tub: in a family home with young children, or in a home where this is the only bathroom, keeping at least one tub preserves resale appeal. Buyers, particularly families, often expect at least one bathtub in the home. If your home has multiple bathrooms, converting the rarely-used primary bath tub to a walk-in while keeping a tub in the hall bath is typically the smartest approach. We talk through this tradeoff in every tub conversion consultation because the right answer is genuinely different depending on your household and your plans.
Read more: How Much Does a Bathroom Remodel Cost in Eastern Iowa?
For full bathrooms in Eastern Iowa homes, ceramic or porcelain tile is the most durable and genuinely waterproof choice. It handles heat, moisture, and heavy daily use better than any other option, and properly installed tile can last 30 or more years. Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) is the most popular alternative: it’s waterproof when installed correctly, softer and warmer underfoot than tile (a real advantage in Iowa winters), easier on the budget, and available in convincing wood and stone looks.
One material to avoid in a full bathroom: standard laminate flooring. It’s water-resistant but not waterproof, and moisture seeping into seams can cause swelling and warping over time. It’s fine in a powder room or half-bath, but not recommended for a space with a shower or tub. Whichever material you choose, proper installation is just as important as the product itself, even a truly waterproof floor can fail if seams, edges, and transitions aren’t properly sealed.
Read more: Bathroom Remodel Guide: Flooring and Shower Materials for a Stylish, Watertight Space
The most important decisions to lock in before demo day are your layout (where the toilet, shower, and vanity sit, and whether anything is moving), your shower or tub configuration, your flooring material, your fixtures and finishes, and your storage plan. Many of these need to be finalized before rough-in plumbing begins, because once those lines are set, changing them means opening walls back up.
The most common mistake is deciding as you go. Even small undecided items (a grout color, a hardware finish, a tile pattern) can stall a trade that’s ready to move forward. This is also the right time to think about accessibility, even if it’s not an immediate need: blocking for future grab bars, a slightly wider doorway, or a curbless shower entry are all far easier and less expensive to build in during the remodel than to retrofit later. During your design consultation, we’ll walk through all of these decisions in the right order so nothing gets missed.
Read more: What’s the Process for a Custom Bathroom Remodel? Design, Decisions, and What to Expect
Bath Planet is a manufacturer of high-quality acrylic bath and shower systems. We are an authorized Bath Planet dealer and installer, which means we don’t just sell their products, we handle the full process: measuring your space, designing the system to fit your specific bathroom, ordering the custom-fabricated components, and completing the installation with our own crew.
Bath Planet systems are built from non-porous acrylic that resists mold and mildew, requires no grout maintenance, and is backed by a lifetime manufacturer’s warranty. We install their full line: walk-in showers, tub/shower combos, barrier-free and accessible showers, and tub-to-shower conversions. Most installations are completed in one to two days. One important distinction: unlike some contractors who install only the wet area (the shower or tub itself), Hometown Restyling is a full-service remodeler. So if you want to update the vanity, flooring, fixtures, and lighting alongside your Bath Planet shower, we handle it all as a single cohesive project. Each Bath Planet installation we complete is also backed by our own lifetime workmanship warranty, in addition to Bath Planet’s manufacturer coverage.
Read more: Fast & Flawless Bathroom Remodels with Hometown Restyling and Bath Planet
Yes, and bathrooms are one of the projects Eastern Iowa buyers notice most when evaluating a home. Industry research consistently shows bathroom remodels returning 53–60% of project cost at resale for small to mid-range projects, with a mid-range update of an 8×10 bathroom typically returning around 60% of what it costs. A bathroom addition (adding a new full bath to the home) returns approximately 55% at resale. Upscale primary bath renovations tend to return less as a percentage of cost (around 53%), since the investment is higher while the buyer’s perceived value caps out.
Those ROI figures are resale math. The more immediate payoff for most homeowners is daily quality of life: a bathroom you actually enjoy using, that works better for your household, that starts every morning on a better note. In competitive Eastern Iowa markets like Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Iowa City, a recently remodeled bathroom also makes a home feel move-in ready to buyers, which can reduce days on market as much as it increases price. Match the scope of your remodel to what’s typical for homes in your neighborhood, and invest where you’ll benefit most while you’re still living there.
Read more: How Much Does a Bathroom Remodel Cost in Eastern Iowa?
A barrier-free shower has zero threshold: the shower floor is flush with the bathroom floor, eliminating any step to enter. This is the most accessible design and is ideal for wheelchair users or anyone who wants maximum long-term usability. A low-barrier shower has a very small curb (typically half an inch or less) that still dramatically reduces trip risk compared to a standard shower curb or tub wall, while being slightly easier to waterproof. “Aging in place” refers to designing a bathroom that can serve your household safely and comfortably for decades.
Key aging in place features include barrier-free or low-threshold shower entry, reinforced wall blocking for grab bars (which can be added later without reopening walls if the blocking is there), a built-in or fold-down shower bench, a handheld showerhead on an adjustable slide bar, non-slip flooring surfaces, and improved lighting. We have a certified Aging in Place specialist on staff who designs these spaces to feel like beautiful bathrooms first, not clinical installations. This work is genuinely easier and less expensive to build into a remodel you’re already planning than to retrofit later. So if there’s any chance you’ll want these features in the next 10 years, the right time to include them is now.
Read more: How Much Does a Bath Planet Bathroom Cost? 5 Questions Eastern Iowa Homeowners Are Asking
For a full custom remodel, yes, once demolition begins, your toilet, shower, and vanity are typically disconnected or removed, and the bathroom won’t be functional again until the final phase of construction. That window usually covers the majority of active construction, so planning ahead for an alternate bathroom is necessary, not optional.
Practical options: a second bathroom in the home, a neighbor’s shower, a short-term gym membership, or temporarily relocating a refrigerator to the garage and setting up a bathtub as a dish station (yes, really, it works). For homeowners who only have one full bathroom, we’ll always have this conversation before we schedule demo day. If minimizing disruption is a top priority for your household, it’s also worth knowing that a focused wet-area upgrade (replacing just the shower or tub system) is typically completed in one to two days, which dramatically reduces how long you’re without a functioning shower.
Read more: What’s the Process for a Custom Bathroom Remodel? Design, Decisions, and What to Expect
