Redo your bathroom for under £200 (DIY in general)

Member Name: davies29

Product:	DIY in general
Date:	03/02/02 (1796 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks lovely, Cheaper than replacing bathroom suite

Disadvantages: None

I have just bought a house and in the process inherited a horrible peach bathroom suite that we can not afford to replace.

I decided to work around the colour, and make the suite look less noticeable. To start with I ripped up the black and white lino and the carpet that was underneath, only to find that someone has been peeing over the floor by the toilet which smells bad, so I ripped up the wooden floor panel and replaced it with a new one, which can be nailed or glued on.

Next I set about transforming the colour of the magnolia walls, I have painted them a colour called spice rack by Crown (bathroom and kitchen paint) The colour is a light terracotta reddy colour, I then laid tile floor the colour is called soleil, it is a reddy terracotta and yellow (£18 a pack from Freemans catalogue) , I then replaced the light pull, toilet seat, bath panel and all other accesories with pine.

I have put up 2 pine corner shelves that cost £3 in B&Q on the corner of the bath and a long shelf above the toilet that cost £4 from B&Q.

And to finish it off I have put up a wicker blind that costs £28 on my window.

By bathroom looks like it cost a lot of money to do but really it cost under £200, so it worked out much cheaper than ripping it all out and replacing it. And best of all, with all the nice colours you can barely notice the peach bathroom suite

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