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Does a Shower Remodel Add Value to Your House?

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Are you thinking about selling your house? Do you want to remodel the bathroom but aren’t sure if you’ll see a return on your investment? Good news! Updating the bathroom is a great way to get the house ready to sell. Whether you completely redo the entire room or just do a simple shower remodel, you’re making your home easier to sell. And you’ll see the difference in the value on your home.

What’s a Bathroom Remodel Cost?

The cost of a bathroom remodel depends on how much work you do. That just makes sense. For our purposes, we’ll define a bathroom remodel as completely updating an existing 5 x 7 bathroom. On average that includes replacing the fixtures, including a new tub. Installing new ceramic tile around the tub and on the floor, replacing the countertop and sink, and updating the lighting. A basic bathroom remodel in the Pacific area costs an average of $21,855 according to the Remodeling 2018 Cost vs Value Report and you will recoup about 87.7% of that amount when you sell the house.

When prospective buyers look at your house, one of their key concerns are the bathroom and the kitchen. If you don’t want to remodel the entire bathroom, a shower remodel and updating the countertops makes the room look new and fresh and saves on the cost of the remodel.

What to Include in the Shower Remodel

Include features buyers want in your shower remodel. Fabulous showers include plenty of built-in storage space. Use niches to store personal care and hygiene items close at hand in the shower. Today, niches replace old, dated soap holders. Plus, they provide room for shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and whatever else you want close at hand.

Upgrade the shower head too. Buyers love multiple shower heads, rain shower heads, and handheld shower heads. Give them what they want! You’ll enjoy the upgrade too.

Roman Shower is Easy to Care Option for Shower Remodel

Glass shower enclosures may be a chore to keep clean and sparkling, but buyers love the look. A Roman shower is a great alternative. It uses less glass, so it’s easier to keep clean. It works well with any open design.

Don’t forget a seat. A seat is practical and adds safety.

What to Include in a Bathroom Remodel

include double vanities in master bathroom remodel

Double Vanities are a Must Have for Master Bathroom

If you are remodeling the entire bathroom, you’ll want to follow the most current design trends. Replace that large jetted tub with a soaking tub. Use wood-look ceramic tile whether you want a spa-look or a more traditional design. Wood-look ceramic tile gives you the warmth of wood with the easy care and practicality of tile. It’s the look to have.

Update the lighting to include a mix of natural light (if possible) as well as task and mood lighting. Review our tips on lighting at our General Contractors Guide to Functional Bathrooms.

In a master bathroom, double sinks can be a make or break feature for many buyers. If you have the space for two separate vanities, splurge. If you don’t, install double sinks with plenty of room for two people.

Shower Remodel by Inspired Remodels

Cost versus Value

Whether you are selling your house or staying for 10, 15, or 20 years or more, the value of your shower remodel or complete bathroom makeover is important.

Realistically, very few home improvements add more value than their cost. Only replacing a garage door or a manufactured stone veneer recoups more than the cost in the Pacific region of the US. However, an old bathroom may keep buyers from making an offer on your home. Or worse, offers may come in for much less than you ask. Updating the bathroom or kitchen makes the home show better and increases the chances of receiving more offers.

If you plan on staying in your home, a shower remodel or bathroom upgrade will provide you with years of enjoyment. A bathroom that is functional and beautiful is priceless.

Want more information about a shower remodel, whole bathroom update or other remodeling? Call Inspired Remodels at (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us online.

General Contractors Guide to Functional Bathrooms

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General contractors will generally build any bathroom configuration you want. However, their extensive experience teaches what works and what doesn’t. If you want a great bathroom, where function and form come together to serve with style, follow these tips from general contractors for a successful bathroom remodel.

Don’t Make Space – Use Space

Even if you have a small bathroom, you don’t need to knock down walls to get more room. If you want more space, just use the space you have wisely.

Look for hidden opportunities to hide toiletries. This mirror doubles as a medicine cabinet and storage for personal care items. A slide-out shelving unit nestles snugly within the mirror when closed. The casual visitor to the bathroom would never know it was there. But for the person that uses the room on a daily basis, it’s a nifty way to keep personal grooming items close at hand. And it doesn’t chew up valuable space.

Bathroom Mirror – storage hidden

Bathroom Mirror – storage exposed

Another way to get more space is by using the underutilized area under items that are already in the bathroom. For example, you can use the area under a cabinet to store towels, like in this bathroom.

Shelf Under Cabinet Uses Space for Storage

If you want or need a shower seat for safety or convenience, use a shelf under the stool for storage of personal care items. This shelf can store shampoo, conditioner, soaps, sponges, body wash, etc within easy reach of the person seated. No getting in the shower only to discover you forgot something.

Seat with Storage

Use the Right Lighting

General contractors like Inspired Remodels get many requests when remodeling bathrooms. However, “could you please make this bathroom darker?” has never been one of them. These days, it’s best to provide a variety of lighting to get the most use of the room. You want functional lighting for some tasks and ambient lighting for others. Make sure the room has both.

For example, you want low light to create a relaxing atmosphere for your soaking tub. But you don’t want to apply your makeup or shave in low light. The solution? Incorporate room for candle stands in the tub area.

General contractors use ambient lighting to enhance tub area

Ambient Lighting for Soaking

For day to day grooming activities, you need functional lighting. This bathroom takes advantage of natural lighting and strategically placed functional lighting. Notice how the lights are placed next to the mirror? This provides much better lighting than lights over the mirror. Overhead lights can cast shadows. For the best lighting, take a tip from Hollywood and place the lights next to the mirrors and take full advantage of all natural lighting.

functional, natural, and ambient lighting

Pick the Perfect General Contractors

Get the best bathroom by working with the best general contractors. They know how to work with the plumbing and electrical you have in place and how to get the most from your room. Inspired Remodels is a design/build general contracting firm. That means that they not only work with you to design a fully functional and beautiful bathroom, they will build it for you too. That’s one point of contact for the entire project and one less headache for you.

Contact Inspired Remodels online or call (949) 716-1938 and talk to the Orange County general contractors that will deliver a bathroom that is functional to use and fabulous to look at.

Tips for Small Bathrooms from Orange County Bathroom Renovation Company

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Small bathrooms are always a challenge. How do you make the most of the space you have? Do you know what to do and what not to do? Inspired Remodels, an Orange County bathroom renovation company, shares tips to make the most of a small bathroom. Small bathrooms don’t need to skimp on style. Just get creative with the space.

Avoid Shower Doors

Does your small bathroom include room for bathing? The standard shower/tub combination saves on space. Most combos only need 60 inches. Then, just hang a shower curtain and forget the space needed for doors to pivot open. Pivoting shower doors are space hogs and sliding glass doors are notoriously hard to keep clean. If you don’t need a tub, a Roman shower is also a great space saver. These open design showers take up little space and because of their open design, make rooms look and feel larger. As a bonus, Roman showers are easy to keep clean!

Floating is Fabulous

Floating is fabulous for tricking the eye. Float vanities to make a small space look larger. When the vanity doesn’t touch the floor, the eye interprets that space as additional space in the room. Now we all know you aren’t going to do so much with that small amount of space between the vanity and the floor, but your eye doesn’t know that and tells your brain to see more space than there is.

Floating isn’t just for vanities. Float sinks for an even greater optical illusion. Add a vanity stool under a floating counter/sink combo and not only does the room look larger, but it also looks more luxurious. A crafty bathroom renovation company knows how to float sinks, vanities, and counters to make the most of a small space.

Mirror Mirror On the Wall

Even the smallest spaces look larger with mirrors. More mirror space also means more usable space. With a large mirror, more than one person can use the mirror at a time without jostling for space. Mirrors don’t need to be confined to the sink area. The mirror can extend far beyond the sink area to increase usable space in the room. This is especially important for bathrooms that are shared by multiple occupants. One shaves or brushes their teeth while the other has plenty of room for hair styling or other grooming activities.

Vanities with Storage Shelves

Vanities with storage shelves make a room look larger while providing additional space for linens or toiletries. Just like a floating vanity, the open space created by a shelf is interpreted by the eye as extra space. And that “extra” space is put to good use. Place extra towels on the shelf so you always have linens on hand.

Hooks Not Bars

Speaking of towels, towel bars are handy but they are also space hogs. Hooks aren’t just for robes anymore. Hooks provide adequate space for hanging towels to dry. You can hang two towels on hooks in a much smaller space than a single towel bar.

The Bathroom Renovation Company that Knows Small Spaces

Big or small, Inspired Remodels is the bathroom renovation company that can do it all. At a loss how to maximize your small space? Let Jason and Joe Mueller create and execute a bathroom design that provides utility and beauty while making the most of the space you have. Small spaces don’t need to skimp on style. Effective use of color and pattern along with the tips shared here make small rooms look big. Call (949) 716-1938 or Contact Us to schedule a consultation today.

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