Free Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

How to find free bathroom design ideas

Designing your own bathroom can be very satisfying and can also save you a lot of money if you can avoid hiring someone to create your designer bathroom for you. The hardest part of creating your own bathroom remodeling design is getting started so here are a few ideas, which might help.

Measure and draw your bathroom to scale

Start by measuring the room and draw a plan of your existing bathroom on squared paper. Be as accurate as you can because you might need every inch of space depending on what you want to put in your new bathroom and how much space you have available to you.

Measure the length of walls at both edges of the room in case it is wider at one end than the other, they often are. Measure floor to ceiling and the position and size of any windows including the depth. Also measure the size, position and shape of any fixed objects in the room such as pipework and radiators.

Draw plans of your bathroom looking down from the ceiling and looking directly at each wall. When you've finished you should have five drawings on squared paper and a set of measurements to go with it. Take these, together with a tape measure, with you wherever you go because you will need to refer to them often.

Leave the magazines and bathroom showrooms until later

Bathroom showrooms and home improvement magazines will be important later but to begin with they are trying to sell you something and can confuse and divert you from the task of deciding what you really want. Leave them alone for the time being.

Make use of a digital camera

Take a digital camera with you whenever you're in bathroom design mode and use it to make a visual record everything you come across. Note down what each image is about and file it away carefully on your computer for later. This is an excellent design technique and most people don't do it.

Call your friends

Your friends are often the best resource for bathroom remodeling ideas that you have available to you. Go and visit each and every one of your friends and ask them if you can take a good look at their bathroom. Most people are more than happy to oblige especially if they have recently had their bathroom rebuilt.

Ask lots of questions to find out what their ideas were before they remodeled, how their ideas changed while they were doing it, what they like about their bathroom and just as important, what don't they like about it. Make good understandable notes while you are looking around so that you don't forget anything.

You will probably find that most of your friends will have either redesigned their bathroom in the last few years or they will know of someone who has. If they do know of someone who would be willing to show you around see if you can arrange to go and take a look.

Go and view some houses for sale.

Real estate agents will happily arrange for you to go and see properties for sale and if you tell them that you are looking for a great bathroom they will try and find one for you.

If you don't feel comfortable doing this because you have no intention of buying a new property then I suggest that you try and get over it. It's a great way to get ideas for your own bathroom and who knows what might happen when you start looking. You wouldn't be the first to do this kind of research and end up buying a new property so don't feel bad about doing it.

Buy some magazines

By now you should be feeling confident about what it is you are looking for. Now is the time to find a few good magazines on remodeling and home improvement to crystallise your ideas.

Visit showrooms

Now that you know what it is that you are looking for it's time to visit the showrooms in your area to see what is available and match your ideas to items that you can buy. Make notes and take lots of pictures with your digital camera of everything interesting that you find.

Pick up brochures on home improvement and bathroom remodeling

Find as many brochures as you can get for free from the showrooms. Make sure that you have the manufactures brochure for everything that you might be interested in. If you don't see the paperwork them be sure to ask for it.

Use the Internet

You can use the Internet to find contractors, product specifications and all kinds of general information about bathroom remodeling, do-it-yourself and home improvements so you should make full use of it.

Have fun remodeling your bathroom.

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