• Project minimum spend bathroom

    Moved into my first home and the start of the year and done embarrassingly little - partly no money partly as I wanted to do some research and get a feel for the place.

    Bathroom is obviously so will eventually get redone but likely not for a 3-4 years so want some ideas on what's my best bang for buck upgrades.

    Slowly collecting tools and would like to learn how to do a lot myself current thinking is

    • Repanel bath tub
      • Marine ply
      • colour?
      • stye?
        • vertical panels
        • geometric
        • perimeter square
    • repaint ceiling
      • just classic white presumably
    • repaint tiles
      • lots or just the band
    • repaint skirting board
    • repaint door
    • build undersink unit
    • move sink so not in the corner
    • new mirror

  • I wouldn’t spend any/much money on it at all, until you can afford to rip out and replace the whole thing.

    I was in a similar position for years, had a nasty, old & busted bathroom backing onto the kitchen (en-suite kitchen/bog was kinda cute, eye contact whilst tossing the sausages). Kept fantasising about re-doing the grout or whatever, then the shower collapsed, flying ants kept hatching from inside the foam insulation around the water tank etc. Really glad now that I did fuck all till it all got dashed in the skip.

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