Suite Dreams

When deciding to update your existing bathroom to give it a fresh new look, one of the first things you will want to consider is the bathroom suite. Your choice of bathroom suite will have a huge impact on the outcome of your design. Consisting of a bath or shower, toilet and sink, the design construction rides on the overall success of your remodeling project. If your dream is to indulge in luxurious amenities, this will steer your plans in another direction. Before choosing your new bathroom suite even prior to deciding on the budget, think about the style.

Once you factor in the practical necessities, it may overshadow facts and figures in the sense of wanting a spa like bathroom. The style for your inspiration bathroom will ultimately decide your budget. By creating a master list of what you want such a paints, amenities, tiles and accessories will help in creating a unified look in the bathroom. Once you begin pricing out the particulars of your dream bathroom, scale down the list to absolute essentials and now you have both a budget and a style guideline to complete the look of design. Narrowing your choices doesn’t limit your options, but by being realistic and accessing your needs will lead to a happy ending rather than disappointment. If it is a whirlpool bath you desire that may mean the walk-in steam shower cabin may have to be omitted from your list.

Bathroom Suite Budget

Typically a new bathroom suite will equate to a small percentage of your bathroom budget, regardless if it is a coordinating ensemble or mix and match separates. In order for bathroom manufacturers to remain competitive, there is a diverse and flexible price range in bathroom furniture and suites. Today anyone can have a designer like bathroom without paying top dollar.  It’s quite simple to save money on your bathroom renovation project, by simply replacing the toilet and bath, rather than completely replacing the sink, one of hottest new trends is surface mounted basins, inexpensive and looks classy.

These basins can easily be mounted onto an existing vanity or mounted onto a stand and although standard bathroom suites do come with mixer taps, surface mounted basins mixer taps are sold separately. With the money saved by utilizing the vanity, mixer taps whether for the basin or bath are very affordable with hundreds of designs to choose from.

Basic to Corner Baths

Basic baths are 1700mm in length, but if space is an issue corner baths as well as smaller units are available.  If you can utilize the existing plumbing, you can save a fair bit of money since no new plumbing needs to be installed. However, if you are thinking of installing a larger bath or whirlpool bath, keep in mind you have to have enough power to run the unit. Also, they take a lot of water so you may need to install a larger water heater; there are things to think about besides what looks best.