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Get a new look and stay on budget If you plan your design, shop smart and invest some sweat equity, you can have a $25,000 bathroom remodel for a fraction of the price. Don't believe us? Well, we updated this bathroom with new wall and floor tile, a new vanity and top, and new plumbing fixtures . Then we framed the mirror and added glass shelves above the toilet—all for less than $3,000. And we did it all with materials purchased at home centers. For this article, we worked with kitchen and bath designer extraordinaire Lori Jo Krengel . The following pages feature Lori Jo 's advice for dramatic bathroom improvements that are easy on the wallet. Lori Jo Krengel is a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer and the president of Kitchens by Krengel, Inc., an award- winning design firm in St. Paul. Lori Jo combines style and function to create bathrooms that meet specific budgets . She recommends consulting a designer before remodeling a bathroom to avoid common mistakes . ...

If you’re tired of walking into your dated bathroom and dream of a change, we’ve got bathroom decorating ideas for you that are inexpensive and simple to do. The most important upgrade you can make in your bathroom involves lighting . A Swedish study found that lighting, paired with the right color, affects mood. Changing out your lighting is not difficult or expensive to do, but makes a bathroom look fresher and larger. Older lighting fixtures and fluorescent lighting cast unattractive shadows and odd color hues on your skin. If changing a fixture isn’t possible, you can upgrade the bulb with some of the new fluorescent bulbs that are similar in color warmth to the light cast on a bright, sunny day. Once you’ve upgraded the lighting quality of your bathroom, paint is the next quick and easy upgrade to the bathroom. Pick light colors for large surfaces like the walls and save the darker, richer tones for accents. Check how your color choices look in your upgraded lighting bef...

ABOVE (click on gallery image to view larger picture ): This bathroom was originally two seperate rooms. Read more about this renovated bathroom… If you’re thinking of updating or remodelling your space, follow the expert advice of Real Homes’ Editor-in-Chief and experienced renovator Michael Holmes . You don’t necessarily need to make your bathroom any larger to create the look you want – the key is good layout design . Create a scale floorplan on squared paper with scale cut-outs for the bath, WC, basin and shower tray to explore different layouts. You can download a free planner and scale templates for sanitaryware from armitage-shanks.co.uk. Free CAD software is also available from several sanitaryware manufacturers – Villeroy & Boch offers a free online design tool (villeroy-boch.com). Planning permission isn ’t required to alter the layout, but any changes to the plumbing or electrics or structural alterations or additions must comply with the Building Regulations. The reg...