The smallest room in the house.

After putting off dealing with the broken tiles and generally bad decor in our bathroom for 2 years since we moved in....it's time to "do" the bathroom.

In our small bathroom, we simply want "bath with shower, toilet, basin, tiles". Nothing elaborate, designer or expensive. We also decided to get someone else to install it, time is in short supply at the moment.

According to the bathroom shop, this will cost "£5,000 to £10,000".

Now, this is a little more than we were hoping to spend. I think we are going to change our plans...it's about time I learned to fit a bathroom. It cannot be that hard, can it?

I suppose the first thing would be to make a shopping list.

Bath £300
Toilet, cistern £180
Sink & vanity unit £250
Shower head £300
Mixer tap 2*£150 = £300
Heated Towel Rail £150
Floor Tiles 3sqm*£30 = £90
Wall Tiles 12sqm*£25= £300
Grout/adhesive £80
Misc (wood/boxing etc) <£100
Pipes. drains etc £200
Furniture (toilet roll holder etc) <£100
New light £150
Shower rail, curtain £80

Total £2580. Hmm, still expensive. That's more than we spent on our kitchen, which is definitely not the smallest room in the house!

I wonder if we can re-use anything already in the bathroom, perhaps we can just fix the cracked bath panel and put some new grout on the tiles.