Soon selling - install new bathroom or not???

anirishlass

Doozergirl wrote: »

£5000? You are having a laugh!

God, don't paint the tiles. You WILL end up buying a new suite if you do that.

If your suite is white you can easily make it over, if not, you can do the whole bathroom, fitted for under £1500. You must buy all of the bits yourself and ask a plumber to fit it for you and a tiler to tile it. Don't go to the length of getting the electrics moved or anything - you're selling.

If it IS white, then you can do it for far, far less than £1500 even. You need to scrub bath, toilet and sink to within an inch of your life. Use scourers.

You can tile over existing tiles. Tile the floor too. Topps Tiles do mosaic for about £13 a square metre and it does look the job. I like the white ones and the aqua blues. It's very hard to find tiles for little money that don't look cheap.n If you are careful and your base is nice and flat, the mosaics are very easy to lay and you can actually do it yourself (I have done it!)

Replace the taps (there's a great company on ebay, that are literally within walking distance of me and they do designer looking tap for a fraction of the cost). Put a metal Ikea blind up on the windows. Buy matching towels and toiletries and hide any toiletries that aren't a designer brand. New light fitting or shade.

Bob's your uncle, new bathroom. Easy.

Fantastic advice Doozergirl :T

We certainly won't be painting the tiles as the previous owner kindly did that already and that's partly why the place isn't giving off any wow factor!!! Hadn't thought of tiling the floor - we removed all carpets (and lino in bathroom) to reveal original floorboards. Typically th only place they don't look great is the bathroom. We were thinking of painting them - any thoughts??

Oh, and could you PM me the details of your "tap" shop, too?

Thanks