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Trying to make plans for our bathroom reno project

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Once my husband and I complete our living room dining room renovation project it will be time to move on to the next project. We won’t be taking a break in between projects since the living room dinning room reno has taken forever and has been more break than work lately.

I’ve love to work on our upstairs bathroom. It’s so small! At this point I haven’t decided whether we’ll work with the very small space that we have or if we’ll knock down a wall and expand the bathroom. Obviously knocking down a wall and expanding would be what I’d prefer to do as we’d be able to have a very nice upstairs bathroom if we did that.

Still … it’s a much bigger project in every way from expenses to the amount of work that would have to be done. We’d have to move the pipes and drains and so on. I’m not sure we’re up for that right now. Not on our own anyway.

So, if I were to stick with just renovating the small space that we currently have I think that it might be best to take out the bathtub altogether and install a very nice shower. Ideally I think something like this shower would work well in our small space. I think it would take a little less room than a bathtub so we’d be able to put a upright cabinet in the bathroom as well.

Right now we’ve just got a toilet, bathtub with makeshift shower and a very small sink with an under sink storage cabinet.

Speaking of sinks I’d love to get a new sink. One that looks like a beautiful bowl sitting on a table or counter with wall mount taps above the bowl. That would look beautiful.

I’ve actually been looking at the selection of bathroom tubs, showers, taps, furnishings and accessories at www.Taps4Less.com to get some ideas for our bathroom renovation project.

As you can tell I don’t have any definite plans for this upcoming project. It’s going to be a difficult project whether we keep the bathroom as is or expand.

Any ideas?






I’ve decided to use Glass tiles in my kitchen and bathroom reno projects

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I love watching home decor and renovation shows on TLC and the HGTV channels.

I always get great ideas for my own ever ongoing home renovation projects from these shows. If one of the shows is particularly good I’ll literally take notes – writing down product names, or visiting the shows website so that I can find out what products were used and then go on to visit those sites and bookmark them for future use.

I guess I’ve been working on a virtual home renovation scrapbook? Hey the information that I gather is good for my blog posts too of course. If I can’t use an idea maybe you can?

One of the products that caught my eye a while back when I was watching shows like Trading Places and that fun Australian group renovation show The Block is glass tile. I just love the look of it.

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I guess you can’t really tell from this photo how much different glass tiles are from standard ceramic tiles, but they are glossy and just have what I think is a very luxurious look to them.

Our kitchen and bathroom renovations won’t take place until sometime next year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up using glass tiles in both rooms.

I mean, I’ve even gone so far as to look for online stores that sell tiles.

I actually found what I think might be a good site to purchase my tiles from. It’s called AnchorBayTile.com and they specialize in the sale of ceramic tile. I’m really happy I found this site and thought that if any of my readers might also be in the process of renovating your homes that you might also be interested in this site.

There’s quite a selection of tiles ranging from ceramic, glass, to metal and wood! Now, I’m not near ready for my reno project yet so I haven’t even begun to compare prices, but as far as I can see AnchorBayTile.com has great prices for quality products. I mean – you can’t find glass or metal tiles at very many retail or online shops and this store has a huge variety.

I’m definitely keeping this site in mind because I just know I’m be purchasing glass and probably ceramic tiles for my projects.

Online window shopping for furniture

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If you are thinking of purchasing new furniture, whether it be a particular piece of furniture or perhaps enough to furnish a whole room you should take a moment and have a look at the quality furniture being sold at furniturefromhome.com.

When we complete our basement renovation I’ll be shopping for new furniture. We already have a sectional couch for the room but that’s about it. What I’d really like to do is section the basement off so there’s a laundry room, bathroom, a den or living area and a guest bedroom.

We already have three bedrooms in our home but another bedroom is always handy. However, since we don’t have any spare bedroom furniture so we’ll need to get some Bedroom Furniture. Perhaps something like this bookcase bed. I’ve told you before that we live in a 1927 house and there’s no closets or storage. A bed such as this with all it’s drawers would be fantastic. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to get as much bedroom furniture with such a bed?

Actually, after taking a look at their selection of Leather Sofas perhaps I might ditch the old sectional sofa. They have some very nice leather sofas to choose from – regular two or three seaters and sectional. I like them! Take a look.

Actually I’m getting some more ideas as I browse through the site. If you visit their living room furniture section and scroll to the bottom of the page you’ll see a three seat black leather couch at the bottom. It’s the leather executive media sectional sofa home theater set. We have a large HDTV. We could get a sofa like that one, put our HDTV in the basement and have a a movie screening room. Yeah, I like that idea.

Would you set up a media room if you could?

I really do like the furniture at this online store. Have a look for yourself, perhaps you’ll find some pieces that you like too. They offer free national delivery too – I think that’s a bonus!

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