Benefits of Bathroom Renovations: Enhancing Value, Comfort, and Efficiency

Common among property owners, and especially those in fixer-upper scenarios, is the inclination to choose bathrooms for updating. These spaces tend to be more compact than others, which allows for a concentrated burst of creativity when considering aesthetics. Also, the returns on that investment are more likely to be realised in the near term—increased property value and day-to-day comfort—as compared to making over a kitchen or living room. That said, though, a bathroom renovation is no small feat, and it should be undertaken only with careful thought and planning.

What are the Advantages of a Bathroom Remodel?

There are many, whether you seek to bring a vintage space up to modern standards of appearance or wish to change a poorly designed area into one functional for today’s needs. You can gain more space, more light, more pure water—and, when you close the door, more peace and quiet! You can even gain a little more time in your busy schedule by replacing a bath that takes ages to fill with a walk-in shower.

Increasing Property Value

One of the main motives for people to renovate their bathrooms is the hope that the project will bring an uptick in property values. Real estate professionals often say that a bathroom can really make or break a sale. According to them, while buyers will definitely inspect the kitchen, they will do just as much, if not more, with the bathroom. After all, we all have to clean ourselves, and a newer, nicer-looking, or even a recently redesigned space can really make a statement. As such, the bathroom is really the key area of the house, in terms of resale, because there are really only two spaces where anyone can get cleaner—because the other space isn’t really a room.

Increased Ease and Individualisation

Bathrooms are intimate spaces where we start and finish each day, and they should express comfort and panache. If you are looking to renovate, this is quite the appropriate area of your home to focus on if you want to add space and modern features that weren’t available when your home was built. Whether you want to add an area to decompress, upgrade old plumbing features, or even just make the space work better for your family’s morning mad dash, this is an area with a ton of potential to make it yours.

Increased Efficiency and Sustainability

Many bathroom fixtures in older homes do not meet today’s standards for efficiency and are not designed with sustainability in mind. They use a lot of water (way more than you think) and energy. There are practically no bathroom lighting fixtures that are designed with energy efficiency in mind unless they were installed recently. And even the lighting that was installed recently can be improved upon.

Key Elements to Ensure Renovation Success

Renovating a bathroom can be so thrilling, and it is worth investing time and thought into a few key elements to ensure the project goes off without a hitch. Here are several vital features to keep in mind throughout the planning stages:

• Material Choices: It’s important to select materials that are both structurally sound and aesthetically pleasing. The National Kitchen & Bath Association recommends “waterproof” tiles and “non-slip” flooring. Even using paint with moderate to high amounts of “sealant” feels appropriate. Using fixtures with adequate built-in spaces for lighting can accomplish a similar “dimensional” aspect that makes other good-looking choices work.
• Lighting and Ventilation: Good lighting is a must, and venting the humid air out of the bathroom is equally important. You could consider having a couple of fixtures do what a front porch overhang does, lighting up the area directly in front of the door. Another is accent lighting around a mirror or two would look nice.

When to Employ Experts

Although many homeowners like to do their own renovations, employing strangers can save you time and give you the confidence that an in-house job will turn out well. A bathroom renovation often requires plumbing, tiling, and electrical work—none of which a typical homeowner has the skill to do well or even the time to learn. If you want all that to be done seamlessly and are willing to pay for it, then Oxford Bathrooms can help with your bathroom makeover.

Rewards can be reaped from bathroom renovations that reach far beyond the intimate personal comforts of daily existence in a space so typically intimate to one’s daily routine. The time taken to think through design decisions very much pays off in a room that serves better (and that I would hope for anyone that undertakes a renovation would consider: a bathroom that is also a visually appealing one). And value is added to the thing we call home by a well-executed renovation.