Luxury bathroom remodelling on a budget
Putting in a new bathroom can really help to transform a home, whether you’re doing it to add value for an upcoming sale or just to improve your own quality of life. So, achieving a high-end impact is really important. What about if you don’t have a whole lot of money to invest into renovating your bathroom, though? How can you achieve that luxury bathroom feel on a low budget?
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Buy your fixtures and fittings online
Consider off-the-shelf products
Explore alternative materials
Whilst there’s no doubting that popular luxury bathroom materials like blue macauba and marble are among the best on the market, it’s worth exploring alternative options if your wallet doesn’t stretch to them. Corian®, for instance, is a high-end material, drawn from natural sources, that offers a range of more than 100 colours, many of which imitate or replicate their more expensive influences.
Plus, if you can’t afford Corian®, you can still achieve a high-end feel. An acrylic bathtub, for example, can help to bring a luxury aesthetic to the space at roughly half the price of a solid surface alternative. With a little creative budgeting, a luxurious bathroom is within your reach.
Buy your fixtures and fittings online
Shopping online for a luxury bathroom is a great way of saving money. Bathroom retailers who operate out of stores and showrooms have much higher overheads than online retailers—this means that they, generally, have to charge more for their products, in order to generate a profit.
By contrast, online retailers like Riluxa are able to ship products direct to customers from the factory. The savings such companies make on things like logistics, showroom rental, staffing and other high-cost factors go back into the customers’ pockets. Plus, you’ll often find that they ship to you for free, so the price of the product is the final price you’ll pay.
Consider off-the-shelf products
Custom-building a bathroom is the obvious way to achieve a high-end, luxurious impact, because it will be crafted to your exacting measurements and unique to your space. However, it’s also possible to complete a luxury remodel with off-the-shelf bathroom products, subject to the quality. Riluxa’s in-stock range, for instance, delivers design excellence and the very best materials, but at prices significantly lower than our custom bathroom products.
The general rule of thumb for buying luxurious products is that they should combine beautiful designs with excellent build quality. The added extra of luxury shopping is customisability—the idea of them being “tailor made” to your specifications. However, it’s wholly possible to achieve a bespoke look and feel with products you bought within the click of a few buttons.
Plan your spending up-front
It might sound obvious, but you’d be surprised at how much more money you can invest into your bathroom if you plan in advance.
Start by picking your dream bathroom products and work out the total price. Now, work out how much money you’re going to be able to put away over what period of time to pay for them. If there’s a shortfall, you can make some compromises either on the products you choose or on your remodelling timeline.
Having a budget set out well in advance will help you curb your spending in other areas. Whenever you find yourself window shopping for non-essential items, it will force you to stop and think about how that will impact on your new bathroom budget. A little bit of restraint can go a long way to a luxurious remodelling result.
Looking for something else to read? Check out our article on DIY Bathroom Remodelling—another handy way of saving money for a luxury bathroom.