3 Ways of Bathroom Decorating on a Budget
What a budget decorating saves the bank can be spent on the time it will take to do the job properly. Bathroom decorating on a budget can achieve professional results if the person doing the decorating is willing to put the effort into it.
Paint
Paint is fairly inexpensive and can completely redecorate a bathroom on a budget. Most paint costs around $15 a gallon and many bathrooms will only need two to three gallons of paint for most bathrooms.
Joseph wrote,
Well, to each his own, I suppose, but I do not think saving money on bathroom remodeling in this manner really saves as much as it seems to at first blush. Nor does it actually do the job. You can re-paint bathroom cabinets, and someone like myself (I’m a cabinetmaker) can surely do a good job at it. But, in the end, all you’ll have is old cabinets with a fresh coat of paint. Re-facing cabinets is another option, but a person I know who has done this from time to time for clients describes it as “putting new crap on the old crap.”
A woman I know first went out and got new countertops for her kitchen. Cheap stone of some sort. Cost her four thousand. Then she had her cabinets re-faced and spent another nine thousand. She now has a “re-modeled” kitchen that is not re-modeled at all, for which she has spent thirteen thousand dollars. For just a little more she could have gutted the kitchen and done the job right
Link | April 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pm