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How to Impress your Relatives without spending a fortune - 7 easy ways to improve your bathroom

November 30, 2008

With Christmas looming larger than my next utility bill, focus is turning toward the festivities and the task of hosting relatives who descend like a plague of locusts. In the days spent with me, they eat and drink me out of house and home and make barbed comments that the improvements I have been promising to undertake remain as untouched as the Christmas Day washing up.

Fear not, in this article entitled how to improve you home, we will consider imaginative ways of improving your bathroom without having to go to the costly expense of ripping it out and starting again.

Our first tip is don't despair. In most cases, a degree of imagination and inspiration will help rejuvenate that space. Setting aside the sanitary ware, which can often be costly, think about those elements, which can be replaced fairly readily and easily. By these, we mean the lights, taps, tiles, bath panel and colour scheme together with your toothpaste holder and towels for example.

Our six-point guide to a rejuvenated bathroom:

1. Flooring:- If your floor covering is unattractive, have you thought about removing it and painting the floorboards or concrete which sit below?
2. Taps:- An instant success is to replace the basin and bath taps together with the toilet flush handle. There are so many styles to choose from that you will quite literally be spoilt for choice. If you want to go for a contemporary look, the vogue is for brushed steel. If you live in a period property for example, why not visit your local architectural salvage yard. You will be surprised what bargains you can find there!
3. Bath panels:- A bespoke bath panel can often set your bathroom apart from the rest. In choosing the next generation of panel, be sure to choose one that is not painted MDF (will often not stand up to repeated splashing) and that can be removed easily in order to access any pipe work hidden behind it.
4. Mirror:- As we have done in our bathroom, how about completely mirroring one wall? This instantly creates a sense of space, light and openness. If you do opt for a full width mirror, do pay the extra fitting fee a glazier will charge as believe you me, screwing a 6 foot mirror to a tiled wall is not fun (particularly if you really don't know what you are doing). If you can't afford a new mirror or indeed are looking for something out of the ordinary, do visit your local second-hand shops or flea markets.
5. Lighting:- In our recently refurbished bathroom, the use of inset spotlights has transformed the space. In place of a single ceiling rose, we have gone for 5 spot lights, one for the shower cubicle and 4 other spots. If you do choose this option, please remember not to place any directly over the bath, otherwise those relaxing soaks will be gone forever.
6. Tiles:- Tiling the entire bathroom may be too expensive and therefore not an option. In that case, how about tiling small wall areas in order to provide visual contrast?
7. Accessories:- Once the hard work is over, let your imaginative side take control and go for those colour co-ordinated accessories. Good quality towels in sophisticated colours can in their own way make the space. Add to this a few candles together with an unusual towel rail and you have created your very own sanctuary. One you will be proud of and be completed in time for the locusts!

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