Making your bathroom into your own personal sanctuary is exciting. The prospect of doing it yourself and on a budget can keep you putting it off for decades. Doing your own bathroom design starts with a good plan, and using DIY resources offered at hardware stores to learn what you can do yourself and what might be best outsourced.
Design Your Dream Bathroom
It may be your dream to knock a wall down and expand the bathroom, install a tub separate from a shower and make a two-sink vanity. Whatever your dream bathroom is, put it on paper and list what materials and labor are needed to make it happen. As much fun as this is, remember that you are setting a starting point by designing your own perfect bathroom retreat. The next step is researching cost.
Budgeting
Take your design from Section 1 and look for wholesale prices on materials. Inquire with retail suppliers about classes to teach you to install tile, toilets and tubs. Discuss with a contractor what your dream bathroom would cost. Get several quotes and have them break down the total cost by labor and materials. While labor is a considerable cost, finding your own supply of materials may greatly reduce the quote. As you discover the real cost of your bathroom, look at the actual cost you can--or are willing to--spend on the bathroom.
Revise the Design
Revise the design based on cost and budget considerations. You might want the granite counter more than the heated towel rack and shower jets. Once you know what you are budgeting for the remodel, you can prioritize the things in your original design. The money might best be spent on expanding the room so that you can later add the other luxuries without doing the work, thus the expense, twice.
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