17 Expert Bathroom Renovation Tips
"Write down a list of what you don’t like in a bathroom. I find this is a really effective way to arrive at what you do want in your bathroom. Then write another two lists: your must-haves and your desires. After that, it’s a matter of seeing what the budget extends to.” – Vanessa Cook, Bathroom Designer, Smarter Bathrooms
“Research the latest trends online and get inspiration from magazines. Explore all the styles you might like and pick one that you know you will love. Stick to your guns. Ensure you communicate your wishes with your builder/plumber so they can adjust the plumbing to suit your desired product and design choices.” – Belinda Geels, Bathroom Marketing Manager, Reece
"Overdress the room that you undress in is my philosophy! It’s a perfect – and private - space for more than a little design hi-jinx simply because you’re not exposed to it all the time.” – Jacinta Preston, Interior Designer, Jacinta Preston Design
“Some of the main bathroom trends we’re seeing include: freestanding baths, large open spaces, light-filled bathrooms, bathrooms with a view, double basins and hidden cisterns with wall-hung pans.” – Belinda Geels, Bathroom Marketing Manager, Reece
“Light is the most important element in bathroom design. After that, the creation of a feeling of space and then thirdly the use of beautiful items such as tiles, sinks and baths. If light is not an option, a dramatic or beautiful tile is important as a feature.” – Brooke Aitken, architect, Brooke Aitken Design
“When you’re looking at fittings and fixtures for your bathroom think about the history of where they’re from and how they’re made. I’ll always recommend locally made products where I can.” – Tim Leveson, Interior Designer, Tim Leveson Interiors
“Know and understand the space you have to work with. Measure up key areas before you do your product selections. You will need to be prepared with your dimensions filter out the products that won’t be right for you.” – Belinda Geels, Bathroom Marketing Manager, Reece
"If you can, go with someone local – not only is it handy for you and them, they are less likely to do a shoddy job for you if they’re going to bump into you at the shops all the time!” – Mark Annesley, Director, Just Bathroom Renovations
"Make sure your builder checks that the prospective layout can work with the existing layout. If you need to change the location of pipework, you need to know whether you can access below the bathroom floor line and how that might affect what is below. In those cases, keeping existing locations and layouts is a safer way to start.” – Brooke Aitken, architect, Brooke Aitken Design
“One important consideration that sometimes gets overlooked is: how easy is it to clean? I personally think it’s vital to think about this when you’re selecting materials.” – Tim Leveson, Interior Designer, Tim Leveson Interiors
“Cast your mind ahead to how the finished bathroom is going to look. What will you be gazing at as you lay in the bath? Or as you sit on the loo? Is any of the plumbing going to visible from certain vantage points?” – Janet James, Style Director, Australian House & Garden
“Be realistic about your budget. Wet areas are the most costly rooms in the house, so as a rule of thumb work to about $3-4K per square metre.” – Shawn Godwin, Architect, Base Architecture
“Having a concrete budget in place will make you monitor all your choices of items. Bathrooms can tend to blow out in in cost because there are so many beautiful bathroom items on the market! For instance, know from the start whether you can afford the $10,000 stone bath or even a $2000 freestanding steel bath before you go looking at baths. Understand roughly how much tiling you will require in square metres. You may find you have sourced the most amazing tile, but tile prices vary wildly and each square metre can add hundreds to your costs on top of the general building costs. Knowing what you require will stop you from swaying from the final objective – a built bathroom to your budget.” – Brooke Aitken, architect, Brooke Aitken Design
“Always use a professional. A bathroom designer has a broad sense of what’s going to work and what’s not. Also, their attention to detail is at a level most home renovators will never be able to achieve. Tackling a bathroom renovation yourself is a false economy if you need to call in the professionals to redo it.” – Vanessa Cook, Bathroom Designer, Smarter Bathrooms
"Make sure all your taps, basins and tiles are delivered to site and checked by your contractors before they’re stored, ready for use. If, for instance, your tiles have come to the house in a cracked state and are then stored without checking the boxes before they are needed, your building program will be held back while you try to organise more - not to mention the argument that will ensue with the supplier that the damage has happened onsite.” – Brooke Aitken, architect, Brooke Aitken Design
“Allow three months to build or renovate a bathroom. The actual building process will take three to four weeks, all going smoothly. But there are a lot of planning and design processes that need to occur before you get to that stage, so allow three months.” – Vanessa Cook, Bathroom Designer, Smarter Bathrooms
“Always be aware that codes, standards and certificates apply and will be required upon completion.” – Shawn Godwin, Architect, Base Architecture
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