Thursday, March 19, 2009

Essential Advice for Creating Bathroom Floor Plans

By Sally Greenfield

Are you happy with the style and setup of your bathroom? Do you wish to remodel? Maybe you are planning on building your own house and want everything setup perfectly. If so, have you ever sat down and just doodled about how you would like your bathroom setup? Creating your own bathroom floor plans may seem very easy on paper, but there is so much more that you need to consider. Of course everyone wants and needs the essentials like the toilet, sink, bath tub or shower or even both of them. You may want to add some extra storage space or just have more room to move around in.

Well, not necessarily. When you are busy with the bathroom designs, it is always a good idea to take some time and produce a few different bathroom floor plans. You can then compare them and make a decision as to which one will be the best. It is very easy to make changes when your fittings and fixtures are on paper, but it is much more difficult, not to mention costly, to make any changes, once everything has been plumbed in.

What Are Your Needs?

When deciding on various different ideas for your bathroom floor plans, think about how you use the bathroom layout you have at the moment. Which features do you particularly like? Which ones have always irritated you? What would you really like to have in an ideal world?

Assuming you have a budget with an upper limit of some kind, you will probably find you have to make compromises on your finished bathroom floor plans. However with that in mind, you should always strive to make sure the compromises are on style and not on practicality. Remember, you will have to use your bathroom every day, so it will pay to think through any issues you have with space (or lack of) before you buy any fittings.

What Do You Need For Your Bathroom

This is merely deciding what you want to do with your bathroom. It is important to place the things that you like and need in your bathroom. This can allow you to take away the things that you do not like out so that you can add more of what you do like. This is your chance to make the perfect bathroom for you.

You also need to bear in mind that if the plumbing for your existing suite has to be moved, that cost will have to be accounted for. Its very easy to move a drawing of a toilet, for example, but moving it in reality is a major job, and can be very expensive. Try and keep it in its existing location if you can.

It can be great fun designing bathroom floor plans, but you should be realistic at the same time, and not get too carried away. Remember that you will have to be able to cover the cost of your bathroom designs, and at the same time be left with something that you will be able to enjoy every day, once it is finished. - 15252

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