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Bathroom Makeover on a Budget

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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 . ...

Moen Mirrorscapes Review, The Easy Way to Custom Frame Your Mirrors

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my miter saw! However, with Moen Mirrorscapes , you wont need it to cut angles. In fact, you can even install Moen Mirrorscapes if you don’t have a miter saw (gasp! / the horror!). What seems like only a couple weeks ago , I did some demolition in our bathrooms and “removed” our mirrors. My wife informed me, the mirrors were actually removed about a year ago. Apparently bathroom mirrors are critical to the survival of some folks, so if you have any inkling of narcissistic tendencies (or our partnered with someone who does), then this Moen Mirrorscapes review is for you! My plan for our two bathroom mirrors was to install fairly large custom mirrors that covered the whole wall area above the vanities. I had been struggling with a plan on how best to frame them, when Moen offered to provide us with their Mirrorscapes product line to test out and review. Basically, Mirrorscapes are a kit consisting of straight lengths of pre-finished framing, four corner b...