Making Bathroom Decisions

When we moved into our home ten years ago, we moved in with the mindset that we were going to renovate once we were financially comfortable. Saving hasn’t always been easy as it’s something we’re doing on top of paying our mortgage. There have been a few hurdles on the way that have also made it hard to save. For example, there have been a few career changes and redundancies, but we’ve always successfully bounced back. In the last ten years we’ve also expanded our family with three new additions, plus a dog! While I don’t regret this expansion whatsoever, it did set us back in terms of saving. It’s amazing how much your spending priorities change once you have kids.

Now, after ten years in the making, we can say that we’re ready to contact a bathroom renovations company. Melbourne has a few highly recommended companies, but we know exactly who we want to go ahead with. I guess one huge benefit of us not being in a rush to renovate is the fact that we were able to do almost ten years worth of groundwork researching which renovators we wanted to work with, what look we wanted the bathroom to look like and what materials we wanted to use.

The project starts next Tuesday. We could not be more excited, but also stressed. There’s a lot of preparation that needs to happen before a renovation. For example, we need to clear out the entire bathroom and move the contents into our other bathroom. We’re lucky to have two bathrooms as it helps to make the bathroom refurbishment process a lot easier. I don’t know what we’d do if we only had one bathroom. I think we’d need to order one of those bathrooms you see at outdoor festivals. Gosh, it’d be so embarrassing having one of those in our yard! The only downside to this renovation is that having one bathroom means we’re all sharing one bathroom. This isn’t a problem as our children are young, but if it was myself my husband with teenagers? What a nightmare!