Transform Your Ideas Into Construction Plans

There are many qualified interior designers that can help you create a grooming area that fits into your family’s lifestyle. The experts can give you advice about the latest home decor trends, how to utilize your floor space, which fixtures to choose, what colors to use and even arrange for a professional contractor to do all the grunt work for you. But unfortunately all this hand holding does not come cheap. So what are your alternatives if you are a renovation newbie but you still want to design your own bathroom?

Create many different versions of your ideas quickly.

Maybe it’s the thought of the challenge that drives you or the payoff of having saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars if you do it yourself. Whatever your reason for wanting to create your own bathing space, you are in luck because there are also numerous 3D bath modeling tools on the market that will help you transform your wish-list into a usable floor plan.

Virtual Room Planning is Just a Click Away

Devising a bathing space by yourself is not for everyone because of the research and planning that is involved, that is why having a virtual bath planner is the ultimate home improvement shortcut for the stylistically challenged remodeler. These house remodeling software solutions allow you to conceptualize your entire layout and virtually walk around your new chamber without even laying down a single tile.

Before even thinking about designing your own lavatory, there are questions you must ask yourself. Are you really up to the task? How much work can you do yourself? Plumbing and wiring are tasks that may be better left to a qualified professional. Know your limitations but be willing to learn and grow in areas that allow you to expand on your expertise or learn a related skill, however don’t take on more than you think you can handle.

Stacking up Your Skill Set

How handy are you and are you willing to go the distance to get your construction project done. Do you have enough time set aside for all that is needed? Maybe watching an episode of “Canada’s Worst Handyman” may put things in perspective! Ok, you’ve answered the above questions and you are confident or at least optimistic that you really can customize your own washroom.

The psychological hurdle is over, now it’s time to get down to the remodeling process. But before you even grab your mouse or 4B pencil (I know there are some die-hards out there that still use those archaic devices), in order to build your own powder room you must answer two further questions that will determine everything!

Outlining a Strategy

Though anyone can design their own bathroom, there are still a few ground rules the new renovator must be aware of before attempting an update. The two most important questions you must ask yourself are: how much space do I have for my new construction and how much money can I really devote to this venture.

Think of things you would never have thought of before.

These two key questions alone will impact every design decision that you make thereafter and must be weighed very carefully. From the selection of fittings, size of fixtures and surface finishing materials, the ball will really get rolling once you have addressed these issues.

Build Your Bath

Each tailor made space must center on a central theme that holds all the spatial elements together. Colors of bath walls, shapes of design features, surface textures and finishes, and sizes of fixtures can seem out of place if there is not a binding theme that holds the room’s décor together. The great thing about exploring your draft in 3D is how quickly you can draw up a new theme.

With the simple click of a mouse, you can easily fashion construction visuals in no time flat and then quickly print out your blueprints to compare and select which theme is right for you. This is not only a time saver but offers you a smorgasbord of configurations you never would have thought of b[...]