subject: Elegance Worth Every Penny [print this page] With every bathroom renovation, there are three important areas to focus on. They are: utility, funds, and fashion. On a foot square perspective, bathrooms require the most amount of money to renovate.
Take a look at the cost of bathroom faucets for instance. Estimate the total budget involved along with the cost of the essential valves, trims and the mixers, and you'll find that it is beyond what you expected.
Keep the tips discussed here in your mind to stop your budget from going out of control. Except for the situation when your bathroom isn't functional, keep all new fittings in the same places as the previous ones.
In one situation, a designer had to update and replace all bathroom fittings of her client. She put in a bigger sized tub, a fancier toilet, a smarter mirror and a wooden vanity in all. However, the layout of the bathroom was left untouched.
Go for one aspect of the renovation where your money will be utilized to the full. Another designer said that her client had a pink vanity in the bathroom which could be easily seen from the loft when the bathroom door was left open.
The designer replaced it with a wood and glass vanity with wall-mounted faucets and that is what is seen now from the bathroom door. To make up for this, she had to select inexpensive bathtub fixtures - along with cheap bathroom tiles.
Some days, the bathroom in the mornings is like the frontline. There is a rush for the brushes, dryers, cleaners, showers, and what not. Whether it's a couple or a full family, a mere handful of tricks can help the bathroom in not becoming a war field.
Drawers on vanities give better storage in comparison to doors - in which the far end of some racks can be hard to reach. Double up the towel bar as a door grip, and fix a lean pantry-style cabinet on a blank wall, and enjoy the space you save in turn. One designer came up with a 5-foot tall, 8-inch deep wall-mounted cabinet for her client and that gave the client space enough to store toiletries enough for a tiny store.
No matter how hard you try, strip lights in your bathroom just aren't right for getting ready. Light sconces bordering the mirror light up the person from both sides and s/he can see exactly how s/he looks.
One often sees couples that opt for double sink vanities and it's sad because the actual thing that they are fighting over is the mirror space. In the case of one couple, the result was that 'her' mirror was seen on top of the sink and 'his' mirror was placed over the toilet.
One of the main challenges in designing a modern-day bathroom is to make it warm and fun, and yet it cannot be overly ostentatious. To add warmth to your bathroom, you can try incorporating some of these elements.
Wood and natural materials. Apart from adding warmth, wood makes your bathroom appear stylish and chic.
All bathrooms have several glossy surfaces and a lot of shiny fittings. The usage of disparate materials for contrast and the usage of textures make your bathroom visually interesting as well as warmer.
One such case is that the designer had to use speckled mosaic wall tiles, an earthy slate floor and cotton towels to reduce the negative effect of the spare lines in the client's bathroom. The bathroom was transformed from its previous dowdy look to a swish and swanky look of a spa.
