Best Home Remodeling

Bathrooms

Most of us spend a lot of time in our bathrooms. Your Bathroom is the first and last room you use at the start and end of each day and it’s the room most often seen and used by visitors to your home.

Bathrooms are those cozy rooms in your house where you can go to take a revitalizing hot shower or a luxurious soothing soak at the end of a stressful day.

With the advance of the years, bathrooms that once looked nice and fresh start to look a bit run down and worn. If your house is 40 years old or older, accumulated moisture has rotted away the joists and wall studs and perhaps the window could be lose. Bathrooms collect moisture, so there is a good chance you may have to replace drywall. When your bathroom makes you sick, it’s probably time for a whole new bathroom renovation to bring your tired old bathroom back to life. 

Having an out of date bathroom will definitely be a stumbling block in the sale of your home. Renovating your bathroom will always add to the overall value of your home. Bathroom remodels can improve your home’s value by thousands of dollars.

Jet powered spa tubs give you a great way of relaxing after a hard day’s work or a thorough workout. In order to create the look and feel of a spa, homeowners are paying more attention to their flooring. Using large travertine tiles can create that gorgeous marble look and they are easy to clean

Showerheads have come a long way in the last decade or two, and most updated bathroom hardware options have a modern look and design.

The new trend of a dual sink and more counter space is usually appreciated in today’s bathrooms.

It is a good idea to plan for lighting fixtures to go over or around your mirror especially if you use recessed lighting in your bathroom.

With bathrooms remodels, you’re not just dealing with the visible elements, you’re dealing with the underlying structure of plumbing and electrical systems. Layout changes, such as switching toilet and shower are careful considerations.

One great tip for getting started, if you want to design your own bathroom, is to put your bathroom ideas down on paper first so you can build up a kind of game plan for the final results you want to see when the project is completed.

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For quite some time it seems that many of our clients prefer to renovate their bathrooms in various shades of brown.

Why not add some color to your remodeling job?

We recently finished the McDaniels Project which has a fresh approach with their contemporary modern designs on two bathrooms that we remodeled for them.

This husband and wife team has a creative approach to their two bathroom remodeling project. Cindy McDaniels was telling me that she arranged to design one bathroom with a blue motif and that was “her” bathroom design choice while the master bathroom design and color motif was picked out by her husband, Ron.

This “his and hers” solution was a fresh approach to making everybody happy. Both bathrooms came out stunning and the McDaniels design style consistently shines with continuity throughout the rest of their beautiful home. Scroll down to take a peek at the two McDaniels Bathrooms. Some of the photos are larger to give you a better view of these stylish bathrooms. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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People considering a bathroom renovation often have to deal with or ask the question of:

Should I keep the tub or should I make it into a shower?

 

This is one of the most important choices one could have to make facing a bathroom remodeling project.

 

From my perspective, as a General Contractor that has been specializing in Bathroom Remodeling for 14 years, I would like to offer a few common elements that I found to be helpful in working your way to making the “right” call.

 

If it is not important for you to soak in a Tub or you’re not a “tub person”, a walk in shower could be just the way to go for the following reasons:

 

It’s roomier and a shower feels bigger.  On the same square footage, the leg room and shower pan size is greater than the bottom of the tub. A walk-in shower offers more room inside the same square footage.

 

Many homeowners have tripped coming out of their tub when they were fatigued or just too tired of climbing in and out of the bathtub, so a “tub to shower conversion” is just the right change to make. A tub conversion can transform any cramped tub into a spacious shower. 

Getting in and out of a walk in shower is a lot easier than a tub.  The normal size curb of a shower is about 5” which requires almost no effort getting into. Stepping over the 17” typical wall height of your tub will require much more effort in addition to also having to hold on to a safety grab bar.

 

If you have a disabled or elderly family member, a shower is probably the better choice to help prevent tripping and falling out of the tub. Remove that old tub and install a Walk in Shower with safety bars to make this bathtub to shower conversion complete.

 

Choosing to remodel your bathroom first, gets you the most bang for your buck because it is not expensive when compared to remodeling a kitchen and profoundly impacts the quality of your life on a daily basis. Remodeling your bathroom is quick and easy, taking only a week from start to finish.

 

Some homeowners are concerned that the sale value of their home might be reduced if there is no tub.  This is a valid issue if you are about to sell the house in the next 4-5 years.  If not, having a shower is a huge improvement that you will enjoy and most people who will put an offer on your home will feel the same way.  When there are small kids in a house and a tub is a necessity, installing a tub in a wide enough shower is an easy project to do. You can have it done for 2-3k with out having to re-tile.

 

Written by Avi Gat and edited by Temogen Amato 

 

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