Bathroom Remodeling in Eastham, MA

This is our own town. The showroom is at Unit #7, 4250 State Highway in North Eastham, next to Ace Hardware — which means most Eastham jobs are under ten minutes from the shop.

On Cape Kitchens has been remodeling bathrooms in Eastham for more than 30 years from a design office and showroom on Route 6 in North Eastham. Owner and designer Vern Hatt is a Massachusetts licensed and insured contractor (Construction Supervisor License #CS62739, Home Improvement Contractor License #177590) and runs every project personally, which means the person who drew your layout is the person who answers the phone when a vanity arrives damaged.

Being in town changes how a job runs in ways that are hard to appreciate until you have had the alternative. Samples get dropped at the house instead of described over the phone. A measurement that needs checking gets checked the same morning. When a tile arrives short, someone is at the supplier that afternoon rather than the following week. For a room as small and as detail-dense as a bathroom, that proximity is worth more than it sounds.

Eastham's housing is mostly post-war: 1950s through 1970s summer cottages and ranches, many of them since winterized and lived in year-round, along with older houses along the Bay side and around the Fort Hill and Nauset areas. We take on as much or as little as the project calls for — a vanity and top supplied only, a single failing shower rebuilt properly, or a full gut through to finish carpentry.

This is the single most useful thing we can tell an Eastham homeowner, and it is the reason we ask about it before we quote anything.

Eastham spent years building out a municipal water system, and much of the town is now connected. But a good number of properties are still on private wells, and Outer Cape well water has a particular character: it tends to be soft, acidic, and carrying iron and manganese. Each of those does something specific and visible in a bathroom.

• Low pH is corrosive. It eats copper supply pipe from the inside, which shows up first as blue-green staining in the sink and tub and eventually as pinhole leaks inside a wall.
• Iron leaves orange staining on porcelain, in grout, and on any surface where water sits.
• Manganese leaves black or brown staining, which people usually mistake for mould and scrub at for years.

None of that is fixed by new fixtures. It is fixed by treating the water. If you are on a well, get it tested and get any treatment sorted before the new bathroom goes in, not after you have watched a white quartz top and a brand-new toilet stain in eighteen months. If you are on town water, none of this applies and you can spend the money on the room instead.

We ask which you have at the first visit. It takes thirty seconds and it changes what we recommend.

A significant portion of Eastham lies within or adjacent to the Cape Cod National Seashore, and owners inside the boundary are sometimes unsure what they are allowed to do. For a bathroom remodel the answer is reassuring.

Interior work is interior work. Your vanity, tile, shower, fixtures, layout and finishes are not subject to Seashore review, and nobody is going to ask you about them. What the restrictions concern is the exterior envelope of the building — enlarging the footprint, increasing the height, or altering the exterior of properties within the Seashore boundary.

Where a bathroom project touches that line is narrow but real: a bump-out to gain floor area, a new or resized window, a skylight over the shower, or an exhaust vent on a face that changes the exterior appearance. If your project includes any of those and your property sits within the boundary, we establish the requirements with the town before pricing the schedule rather than after demolition has started.

The part of a bathroom that determines how long it lasts is the part you never see again after week two. Tile laid over an inadequate substrate is visually identical to tile laid over a proper waterproof assembly — right up until about year four, when it stops being identical very quickly.

What we build behind the tile: a pan sloped properly to the drain or a pre-formed tray set in place, a bonded waterproof membrane over cement board instead of tile fixed to greenboard, seams and inside corners banded, the curb and every niche waterproofed with the same care as the open wall, and a mortar matched to the tile rather than one bag used for everything. Porcelain, natural stone and mosaic each behave differently and each want a different approach.

Curbless and low-threshold showers are the most requested item in Eastham, and in a single-storey ranch or cottage over a crawl space they are often achievable — but only if the crawl space is deep enough to take the drain and the fall. On a slab it is a different conversation and sometimes the honest answer is a low threshold instead. We measure and tell you which one you have before we promise anything.

This is the easy one if you live in Eastham: the showroom is on Route 6 in North Eastham, next to Ace Hardware, and the JSI vanity display is in it. Vanity finishes photograph nothing like they look in a north-facing bathroom in November, and drawer hardware feels fine in a picture and cheap in your hand. Come in with your tile sample, put a door against it, compare hinge and glide quality between price levels, and see the new Fall 2026 Haven Sage finish in daylight. We also carry U.S. Cabinet Depot and Forevermark, plus countertop samples, sinks, faucets and hardware.

Consultations are free, whether at your Eastham home or at our showroom at Unit #7, 4250 State Highway in North Eastham, next to Ace Hardware. Bring photos and measurements if you have them; if you do not, we will take them.

Or send us an email to schedule  ·  Monday–Friday 8:00 AM–5:00 PM, Saturday by appointment