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How Decorating Your Bathroom Gives A Great Return

On Investment

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With the current recession showing no sign of improving or disappearing anytime

soon property owners are having to find new ways to preserve or even increase

the value of their homes. When the economy was booming most property

owners were looking to trade up or completely overhaul their home - all based

on very cheap and freely available home improvement loans and mortgages. But

now if you're looking to improve your home it means being more creative and

instead of replacing what you already have you need to start looking at

maximizing your current property instead.

When you look at the different

rooms in your home the one

that will almost always require

the most potential renovation

work is your bathroom. It gets

more human traffic every day

than any other room in your

home with the exception of

your kitchen, so your bathroom

is going to experience more wear and tear than any other room in your home.

This means that it's also going to "help" devalue your home because it's one of

the first rooms in any home a potential buyer will want to check out.

So if your bathroom is looking a bit dilapidated then it's time to put together a

bathroom design plan for getting it looking its best all over again. We can't

emphasize how important planning is by the way folks - you shouldn't even

consider setting foot inside a hardware store without knowing your exact budget

and exactly what you plan spending your money on.

And budget is where all your planning should start really. You see most people

are totally unrealistic when it comes to setting a budget and then sticking to it

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and wind up spending way more money than they can afford. This can lead to a

few possible outcomes including the bathroom not being finished at all (a major

eyesore in any home) or you have to cut corners throughout the rest of the

project, so you wind up with a bathroom that looks either rushed or not finished

properly; both of these are outcomes you can avoid by simply sticking to your

budget. It's also worth reminding your contractor, if you're using one, that they

need to stick to your budget too because although that marble sink might look

absolutely amazing it could also eat up at least 50% of your budget in return.

When it comes to decorating any bathroom look at what you can keep and what

has to be replaced. What you'll find most often is that your bathroom flooring

has probably deteriorated a lot over the last few years so that will need to be

replaced, as will any broken or cracked tiles on the walls. Any paintwork in the

room will need to be touched up and if you have blinds or drapes then chances

are they'll also need to be replaced at worst or just very thoroughly cleaned at

best.

Replacing your bathroom suite isn't

usually expensive but the simple

act of replacing it means having to

disrupt your flooring and your

paintwork too so do your best to

avoid replacing any major items of

bathroom furniture if you can. If

you can't avoid replacing them

then make sure replacing them is at the top of your list and is done very, very

early on in the renovation process. The last thing you want to be doing is trying

to fit a new toilet on your brand new tiled, glass or wooden floor - having to cut

it to pieces to get the base of the toilet to fit. The same applies with paintwork -

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there's nothing worse than having to ruin brand new paintwork because you

didn't plan the replacement of your bathroom furniture properly.

It's also pretty important to make sure that all of the items included in your

bathroom decorating plan all tie together. What we mean by that is that try to

choose a style for your bathroom and then just stick to that in terms of color

scheme, fixtures and accessories. So for example you don't want to wind up

mixing up a contemporary shower with a traditional color scheme. If you and

your partner find that your tastes conflict at some level then make absolutely

sure that you resolve your artistic differences before work starts - otherwise your

bathroom is going to look and feel disjointed and neither of you are going to be

happy with the final result.

It's amazing how often people we see people spend $10,000 on a bathroom

revamp and make it look like they actually spent $100 instead - all stemming

from a simple lack of planning.

If we can share no other words of wisdom with you here than saying "plan your

bathroom remodel as carefully as possible" then we're happy if you just take this

away from the rest of the information here. Remember if you fail to plan then

you plan on failing.