Remodel Bathroom: Add Charm and Equity To Your Home

A bathroom remodel is one of the more advantageous improvements that you can do in order to add equity to your home. Remodeling a bathroom adds equity because updating an older, out-dated bathroom with fixtures and options that are now being offered in most standard bathrooms in today’s current homes can be one of the main deciding factors that a perspective homeowner looks for.

Some of the most popular ways to update an older bathroom is to replace that antiquated, Formica countertop with beautiful granite, marble, or travertine. The same can be said of the flooring. Replacing that tired, worn linoleum with a beautiful ceramic, natural stone or marble tile can make a huge difference without incurring a lot of expense since the total area is usually rather small. Replacing the sinks, bathtub, shower, or toilet is a little bit more costly and yet if you update and replace them with fixtures that are high-end or high quality, you will be sure to see the equity eventually while in the meantime enjoying all of this luxury for yourself.

Because of all of the complications that are involved when remodeling any bathroom such as the possibility of moving plumbing fixtures or electrical fixtures, you may choose to hire a contractor, designer, or a remodeling firm to help you plan your vision and see it through to completion. That doesn’t mean that this is your only option. As you probably know and have seen for yourself, there are an abundance of do-it-yourself magazines, books, videos, and television shows – in fact entire television networks – that have been created specifically to give you step-by-step instruction on how to tackle these sorts of projects all on your own.

Even if you decide that you will need help in the areas of the electrical wiring and plumbing, you may find that you can still save a lot of money and derive a lot of self-satisfaction by doing most of the rest of the bathroom remodel yourself. Most people can become very adept at cutting and laying a new ceramic tile floor or faux painting or wallpapering the walls. By simply doing these two tasks yourself, you will have already created quite a transformation as well as saved a significant amount of money.

Although there aren’t many home improvements that will earn you one dollar in equity for every dollar spent a bathroom remodel is one that comes very close. In fact, according to Wells Fargo’s home improvement calculator, only a major kitchen remodel or adding on a master bedroom suite accounts for slightly more equity. You will find that remodeling your bathroom will increase your equity by almost 75% of the amount spent on the improvements. That, to me just sounds like a good excuse to start planning and to go shopping!

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