Saturday, January 12, 2013

2012 - An expensive year

Now that we're into the first few weeks of 2013 I guess everyone's wondering how it will all pan out. I'd be happy if it was as good as 2012 but please, just let it be a lot less expensive.

Since we moved into this house we've hated all the bathrooms and have been planning their inevitable restoration. It's not that there was anything wrong with them as such, after all the house is only 13 years old, but they were typical of what you get in a new house. No imagination, no thought, and poor quality fittings.

So back to expense... The first major expense of the year was deciding to get Sheila a new car - covered elsewhere in this blog. One chunk of money spent. And so to the sticky subject of what to spend on the bathrooms. After the previous two years of procrastination leading up to this point we decided against our original plan of me doing the work because A. I don't really have the spare time, B. I don't really have the skills, and C. I didn't really want to do it.

Biting the bullet on the expenses we decided that as the most used room our en-suite would become a no expense spared wetroom and we would get the fittings we wanted regardless of cost (within limits of course). The Cloakroom would be done in the same style as the wetroom but would obviously be massively cheaper anyway. The family bathroom would be done on a budget and we would search out bargain components for fitting.

The work seemed to go on forever although in reality it was probably only for a combined total of about 9 weeks, but it was  9 weeks of total upheaval. Neither of us had anticipated how much dust and just general inconvenience having this work done, split into 3 separate jobs, would be.

Anyway with all the work now done we love the results and judging by the reactions of friends and family that have seen the work so do they. The final cost wasn't as bad as it could have been and we weren't too much over budget. But hopefully our next major expense is a long way off...



 Wetroom

 Family bathroom

Cloakroom

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