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While doing renovations, homeowners overlook how remodelling their bathroom can help give their homes a complete facelift.
An outdated or neglected bathroom can pose a health risk for you and your loved ones. Worse still, it can hinder prospective buyers from purchasing your home if you have listed it for sale. Even when you aren’t necessarily planning to sell your home, having your bathroom renovated can benefit you in the long-run. From boosting your home’s value and outlook to saving you money, bathroom remodeling can benefit you a great deal. Below are 5 ways bathroom renovation can benefit you.
1. It Enhances Your Home’s Value
According to real estate experts, simple bathroom remodeling can increase a home’s sale price. There are several methods you can use to determine the value of your home after doing a bathroom renovation. Tools such as this will help you realize the significant value that a bathroom remodeling project can add to the entire home. A simple renovation entails replacing the tub, toilet, vanity, fixtures, tile surround and sink. Another part of remodeling includes giving the walls of the bathroom a new coat of paint. While renovating, consider today’s trends and choose one that will add value to your bathroom and entire home for years to come.
2. Saves You Money
Like with any home renovation project, remodeling your bathroom can save you a considerable amount of money in the long-run. Once you replace leaking faucets with new ones, you will lower your water bills over time. Similarly, installing a water heater will make your bathroom efficient hence, saving on high energy costs. Replacing your old toilet with a classic water-efficient type will further help cut on your bills.
3. It Gives You Additional Storage Space
Most homeowners store plenty of stuff in their bathrooms, ranging from skin care, hair and dental products and hand wash. There are several other items that homeowners keep in their bathrooms that can be stored elsewhere. All these items and products can occupy significant storage space, leaving the bathroom congested and cluttered as well. Renovating your bathroom will not just help you get rid of this clutter. It will create additional storage space in your bathroom also. While carrying out your renovation, for instance, you can consider adding an extra storage cabinet or two to your bathroom. Luckily, there are several storage options to select from, notwithstanding the size of your bathroom. For small bathrooms, the perfect storage option is shelving since it leaves a lot of floor space hence, making it to appear large. If you have a mid-sized and large bathroom, freestanding cabinets can be excellent storage options. Whatever storage option you select while remodelling your bathroom, always ensure it adds as much space as possible. Also, note that home buyers prefer bathrooms with plenty of storage space, so ensure you address this issue when renovating.
4. It Makes Your Bathroom a Peaceful Oasis
An outdated bathroom is messy and looks disorganised at its best. Performing everyday cleaning activities in an old bathroom can be stressful. An unattractive bathroom space that has substandard and old fixtures can be truly stressing. But, renovating such an old-fashioned bathroom can change it for the better. Overly, a renovation will turn the out-of-date space into a peaceful oasis where you can look forward to performing your day-to-day cleaning activities in it. Upon renovation, you can relax in a new and comfortable bathtub. The renovation also enables you to select textures and colors that are likely to help you soothe away stress and relax in a peaceful atmosphere.
5. Helps Make the Bathroom Eco-friendly
With a proper bathroom renovation, you can replace the outmoded fixtures with energy-efficient types. If you have an old porcelain sink, for instance, you can reclaim and repurpose it thus, saving the older one from ending up in a landfill where it will contribute to harming the environment. All this will become a possibility once you transform your old bathroom into an eco-friendly hub.
Conclusion
Bathroom renovations can bring you many other benefits apart from the ones covered here. To realize these positive outcomes, embark on a bathroom renovation project and transform your old one and reap the benefits.
If you’re planning on remodeling your kitchen this year, these trends (in quotes) from leading online home design platform, Houzz, are worth considering. These are not style points, like mixed finishes on handles or faucets overtaking matching ones, as those details change faster, and are easier to change out, as well. These are longer-term trends that go to the longer-term value on the highest-valued space in your home.
“Aging-in-place is top of mind among more than a third of baby boomers.” Changes that make this hard-working room easier to use as you get older will increase its functionality and potentially its resale value, since most American housing stock is not accessible. These renovations can include replacing a raised bar with a lowered counter for snacking at an island or peninsula, adding roll-out trays to base and pantry cabinets, adding under-cabinet lighting for brighter work surfaces, choosing a French door opening oven rather than a standard model, and widening walk and work aisles for future wheelchair or walker use. None of these improvements come at the expense of style either; an accessible kitchen can be as beautiful – or more so, given their well-lit spaciousness – than a standard version.
Quartz countertops, sold under brand names like Silestone, Caesarstone and Cambria, are trending strongly. “Among the 93 percent who upgrade countertops, engineered quartz surpassed all of the natural stone materials combined in popularity, as granite continues a multi-year decline.” Why might you want engineered stone, rather than natural? While natural stone surfaces still have the edge on beauty – there is no finer designer than Mother Nature – they require more maintenance than their manufactured countertops. They also lack the multi-year warranties that quartz brands offer, and require sealing on a regular basis. Engineered quartz surfaces are non-porous, easy to clean and highly durable.
Natural hardwood floors have also lost popularity to their engineered rivals. “Among the 69 percent who update flooring, only a quarter opt for natural hardwood, a significant decline from recent years. Instead, engineered flooring, such as engineered wood, vinyl and laminate, has become nearly twice as popular.” Engineered floors can be easier and more cost-effective to install, enhancing their popularity, and laminate and vinyl typically cost less than hardwood.
“Given this financial investment, it’s not surprising that eight in 10 kitchen renovators hire a professional for their project, with general contractors and kitchen remodelers topping the list. One in five hire specialty service providers, such as electricians or plumbers directly, without a general contractor.” According to numerous surveys, Millennials are the likeliest group to take on projects without professional help – at least to start – with many use online tutorials for assistance. They are also the group predicted to take on the most kitchen improvement projects.
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