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Refreshing your old bathroom can be a pretty challenging task. Although refreshing a small bathroom requires plenty of cost and effort, the job gets more difficult if you have a large bathroom. Although remodeling many areas of your bathroom may seem as refreshing any other room of your house, there are some exclusive features or problems that must be sorted out while refreshing your old bathroom. Thus, when you refresh your bathroom, remembering 3 things will make your job an effective one.
Fixing Water Damage: Water usage is an inevitable and regular phenomenon of your bathroom. Your toilet, your sink, your tub, your shower- water is everywhere. Thus, it is really important to identify whether there are any water damages in your bathroom. Water damage may take place through outdated or softening walls and continuously wetting floors or tiles. Sometimes you will discover the damage after your bathroom tile or linoleum has come off. Thus, you should thoroughly identify whether all the wood and plumbing are in place to ensure that there are no structural damages that may be hazardous for your bathroom or for its users.
Upgrading bathroom features: It is true that a lot of old bathrooms have the design and plumbing in perfect working order. However, the traditional features of these bathrooms make them ancient and outdated. Thus, replacing these features altogether is often the best thing to do. You may select the preferred look of your bathroom by browsing through hardware stores, visiting your friends' or relatives' place or by skimming through magazines that will give you some idea about the changes you can make in your bathroom. Next, buy the required materials to give your bathroom its preferred appeal. The modifications may range from purchasing a new shower, replacing your sink, changing the wallpaper, substituting tile flooring with mosaic flooring, etc. However, if certain features of your bathroom, such as the shower, is in proper working order and still suits the changes that you make, you may consider leaving it as it is. But at the same time, it is also important to replace the outdated features of your old bathroom that may distort the overall appeal of your upgraded bathroom.
Modifying your bathroom to make it more usable: As already stated, some outdated features of your bathroom may be obsolete for your usage. Thus, upgrading your old bathroom is the perfect alternative. This doesn't mean that you have to move the toilet or the sink from one end of the bathroom to another, as it will make your upgrading task difficult. However, you can always make smaller changes, such as minimizing the distance between the shower and the towel rack to avoid chills on freezing cold winter mornings. This will also help you to avoid wetting the floor by moving from under the shower to get the towel. So, you can shift the towel rack closer to the shower to make it appear better as well as reaching your towel easily after taking your bath.
Sometimes it is not just better, but also necessary to refresh your old bathroom to ensure that your bathroom is upgraded, functional and protected. This will not only give a better look to your bathroom, but will also help it to function better for the time being and for many more years ahead.
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