Solve A Problem With Your Small Bathroom

Posted: Mar 13, 2011 |Comments: 0 |

You hate the way your bathroom looks. Every morning you silently (or not so silently) seethe at its ugliness, its inefficiency, the fact that the toilet does not stop running for a full five minutes every time it is flushed. So you have decided that it really is time to remodel your bathroom. But maybe you can save some cash by doing it yourself.

Those spacious bathrooms that are staples in the glossy home magazines are hardly the norm in the average American home. In fact, the average bathroom is around ten feet square. Therefore, when planning a bathroom remodel you need to give more than a little thought to the way your bathroom is used on a daily basis in order to make the most of what little space you do have. With this in mind it helps to ask yourself these questions as you plan out your new bathroom design.

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How many people actually use the bathroom on a regular basis?

Would it add to the bathroom's efficiency if you added features that would make it possible for two people to make use of the bathroom at the same time? Things such as the addition of a double sink and longer bathroom vanity or a separate lavatory area that is not in sight of the rest of the space?

Does anyone who uses the bathroom on a regular basis ever really take a bath anymore? If your bath is really only there for ornamental purposes it may just be a better idea to nix it all together and have a luxurious double sized walk in shower installed instead.

Do you need a separate grooming area? Most people use their bathrooms almost exclusively for grooming and so the creation of a specially purposed vanity area, with all the right lighting and mirrors as well as ample storage space for cosmetics and other assorted grooming products may be an excellent addition to your new bathroom space.

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Does your bathroom need accessibility upgrades? Most homeowners do not make a habit of remodeling their bathroom every couple of years so, even if you are not yet at the point in your life where accessibility features like extra handrails and supports are needed, it may make sense to have such things integrated into the new bathroom design now, to avoid extra expense and unattractive mismatching down the line when they are.

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