6 Ways to Redecorate your Bathroom on Budget in 2022

Liv Butler
Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 17:54

Redecorating a part of your home, especially the bathroom, can be costly. There are many aspects to bathroom decoration that can be staggeringly expensive, especially things that involve redoing the plumbing or replacing fixtures like sinks and toilets. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t decorate your home to give it a fresh new look without spending a fortune. In fact, there are a number of ways you can cut costs significantly by choosing some budget decorating options. Here is a selection of our best budget bathroom decoration tips for 2022.

Avoid Structural Work

As mentioned above, renovating your bathroom will be far more expensive than simply redecorating. It often requires professional assistance to sort things like plumbing and electrics too. While it is possible to do a lot of these tasks yourself if you have the expertise, more often than not, you’re going to be relying on paying someone else to do it. Instead, you should try to do everything you can that doesn’t involve any structural renovations. If you have to undertake any work like this, consider what you can do yourself or with the help of experienced friends and family. Make use of who you know, and if you have to hire an expert, do your research to find the best-trained professional at the best price possible.

Add A Lick Of Paint

Simply adding paint to a room can make the place look fresh and new very easily with a very little spending. Even if you decide not to change the colour scheme of your bathroom, a fresh coat of paint that is the same colour over top of the current layer of paint will cover any marks and moisture stains, for example. As well as painting your walls, you could also go a step further and paint over things like tiles and your bathtub surround. You could also use paint to create a two-tone wall creating a focal point in the room.

Buy Discounted Items

When decorating on a budget, it’s important to have a good eye for quality sale items. Finding great discounts takes a bit of finesse and a certain amount of luck too. There are plenty of “discounted” items out there that really aren’t providing you with much of a saving at all. Buying from clearance sales is one of your best chances of finding high-quality yet heavily discounted items. This is where suppliers need to shift the rest of their current stock quickly due to bringing in newer designs to replace designs that they are no longer selling. However, that means that the clearance stock is still great quality and can be perfect for your budget bathroom. For example, you can buy discounted towels in bulk from Absolute Home Textiles clearance sales. This will allow you to stock up your bathroom with fresh new towels for a very affordable price.

Use Salvaged Materials

One way in which you can save money on your decorating is to simply make use of salvaged materials. During your time dismantling old furniture or ripping out things like floorboards, you may end up being left with some useful salvage. Take a look at some of the things that you were planning to throw away and consider whether you can use them or not after applying a bit of paint and making some basic repairs. Old items can be retrofitted to be new furniture too. A common example of this is when people turn old step ladders into shelving or wooden crates into cupboards. This is known as upcycling and can be extremely effective in creating a quirky, rustic aesthetic for a room.

Buy from Online Marketplaces

Another great method of acquiring cheap, quality items for your bathroom is to browse online marketplaces. While plenty of people in these spaces are trying to make a quick buck, charging an unreasonable amount for second-hand items, you will also find plenty of others simply trying to get rid of old items quickly. Instead of just throwing things away, you may as well try to get a small amount of money and the knowledge that someone will be making use of your old things. Bear in mind, however, that one other reason people will sell furniture cheaply online is that you’ll then have to go and pick the item up, too, which saves them the job of getting rid of it themselves. So be prepared to find some way to transport the item to your home.

Make Use of House Plants
A cheap way to bring a touch of vibrancy and life to your bathroom is to get some houseplants for the shelves. There are many benefits of houseplants, from boosting mood to increasing air quality, and some are even said to reduce the risks of certain illnesses like the common cold. As well as these actual health benefits of house plants, they serve the great purpose of brightening up a room and making it look less clinical and basic. But remember, taking care of your house plants is essential as one thing that looks worse than a room with no house plants is one that is filled with yellow, droopy plants.

 

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