Last year a friend of mine came to me to let me know that they were thinking of adding a bathroom to their basement. To be honest he was a little bit all over the place with what he was thinking of doing so I told him to take a step back and let start to get the right plans so that everything was in place before the project started. He just seemed to think that they’d basement bathroom was going to be very complex but the truth is all that is required is careful planning and everything will come together perfectly.
The first thing we looked at was whether he wanted a.bath tub or a shower, and he if he wanted a bath was it going to be a full bath or half bath. Sometimes the problem with basement baths is that some people have the perception that a basement is cold and may not particularly this, the perception is because it’s below ground that the space can sometimes feel quite could and this is the reality also have experienced all made number of jobs over the years. A shower can be a little bit more pleasant but if you do decide to go for the bath you may have to consider investing in heating for your basement. You would think this would be something they would put into the house plans when designing them but the majority of homes do not have this. Historically this is really not a standard you will find in most homes and is usually added that the beginning of a home built or something has added later on in life maybe as you family gets bigger.
So, my friend decided to put in a shower instead of a bath. Next on our list was what type of toilet we were going to use, there were a couple of options on the table we code use above floor plumbing system with a macerator which code easily be installed but it works out a little bit expensive. However there are a couple of options that seem to be better priced that needed a little bit of excavate space in the floor which we decided to do as it was cheaper it did require a little bit more work but that was not a problem.
We then look at the layout of the room and how much space we have come we want is to make it possible to move with it in the bathroom itself as it was a big basement we just stationed off the area for this. Another concern was lighting and mirrors we decided to put in some nice recessed lighting and a couple of very large mirrors this gave the impression that the room was bigger than what it actually was. You need to be careful what position you put these in if you are thinking of doing something like this for your self you want to make sure it has an inviting and pleasant fields to the bottom.
He wanted some nice bright colors in terms of paint and to be honest he chose a really nice color scheme for the bathroom. As I have worked on house plans before I had my eye is and between us we shared these and implemented some of mine and some of his sometimes it is good to share these kind of ideas and bounced around but at the end of the day we had to make sure that the room was airy spacious and bright and most of all pleasant room to be in as it was in the basement.
After a couple of weeks everything was finished, we worked on it just at the weekends but it was an easy job once we have the planning all in place. I am a believer that everything when doing any type of DIY at home that planning should be the key thing at the top of your list before you start any project.