Where There’s A Will…

It’s possible to have your cake and eat it too, but sometimes you may have to work for it. Look at the cake analogy. If you get your cake and it begins to fall from your hands, it will hit the floor if you do nothing. But if you take action, you can catch the cake and enjoy its fluffy frosting-filled delights.

Getting your bathroom how you want it may require expensive remodel, or it could require a few little adjustments. But there’s always a way to do it—you’ve just got to be ready to see it through.

Today, one popular bathroom remodel trend involves maximizing the space within your home to have the best bathroom for your needs. That may involve removing a garden tub, changing sink layouts or adding and removing walls. If you’re looking to maximize the space of your restroom, here is a great article that will provide you with in-depth information on how to re-configure your bathroom layout in order to get the most from your space.

Think About It Abstractly

One way you might free up space in your bathroom is to get a more space-efficient sink. There are all kinds of sinks out there, and you can get them in a variety of styles, colors, and designs. You’ll be able to find one which matches your home’s particular aesthetic, that has the same amount of usable volume, and which takes up less space.

If you’ve ever seen a skyscraper, you can see the reason why. Instead of building “out”, you build “up”. A deeper sink with a smaller width can give you several additional feet of usable space that you can use to install a cabinet or something of that kind.

 

Accessorizing And Functionality

Sometimes by accessorizing your bathroom you can combine functionality and conserve space. For example: maybe you never use your bath, but always take a shower. So accessorize a fine shower booth with an adjustable shower head into your bathroom and axe the tub. This is especially recommendable if you already have another tub somewhere in the house—then you’ve still got the bath option if you want it.

Additional silver linings which come with strategic bathroom space maximization include social appeal and property value enhancement. When someone in the neighborhood sees what you’ve done with the limited space in your bathroom, you can bet they’ll be infected with a desire to do the same. Suddenly you’re a trendsetter.

Meanwhile, if you’re strategic in the way you accessorize, you’ll increase the value of your property in excess of the money which you had to devote into remodeling. Essentially, you can spend a little money, make a little money, and in the meantime enjoy a bathroom that’s more pleasing to the eye, and has more elbow room.

 

Facts To Consider

You’re going to spend a lot of time in the bathroom, like it or not. You’ll likely spend at least an hour in it every morning, and around twenty minutes throughout the rest of the day. That’s eighty minutes a day, minimum, every day of the year. Add in twenty minutes for those special occasions or sick days, and you’re looking at 36,500 minutes a year. That’s 25.34 days.

You spend nearly a full month in the bathroom every year of your life…so why not take care of the space? Why not put a bookshelf in, have different drawers for different needs, hidden storage compartments, extensive mirrors—mirrors increase space perception, by the way—and luxury showers?

If you can afford it, it’ll likely make you even more money through property value expansion and you may even have fun in the process. Creating something stimulates you emotionally and—if you do the remodel yourself—even physically. This is especially true when you stand to benefit directly from that which you have made.