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Ensuite upgrade without big price

Christie78
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Ensuite upgrade without big price

We renovated our ensuite to bring it up to the rest of our house. We had a terracotta and cream tiled space, it was very dated.

It boasted a huge single shower, with a half walled off toilet and super tiny single vanity.

The ensuite floorspace is as big as master bedroom itself, and was wasted with layout. 

So to optimise money, as well as utilizing a huge area, we completely opened up the space by taking down the walls, keeping the plumbing where it was, just extending it.

This maximised floor area, and let so much more light into the space. we removed two windows and custom designed one huge window to allow more light. We turned single shower into double, and single vanity into double basin. Such as easy way to create a "Double ensuie"

 It now feels so much bigger and brighter. Costs were kept to minimum by self demolition, and not having to move plumbing.

  • We love the Industrial theme, its created a real luxury room that now complements updated Master bedroom.IMG_2211_Original.jpeg

Materials

We took down walls and guttered room back to nothing. 

This took alot of manual labour, along with large skip bin.

Once back to nothing we used Davco waterproofing range to waterproof entire room, even walls. 

We purchased all new tap wear and two shower heads, along with "coolabah" back to wall toilet, from Bunnings. we re used corner spa.

The white wall tiles, glue and tools were also purchased from Bunnings.

 

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Heat light/fan (Tastic) and down lights (Bunnings)

 

Tiles, Vanity, shaving cabinets  and shower glass were outsourced locally. we had to get custom made window to span the distance.

Tools

Huge amount of of elbow grease! 

Paint brushes/rollers for waterproofing

Tiling accessories - Bunnings bucket for mixing glue, screads, grout & grouting tools/sponges.

Wet/Dry Ozito Vac (Bunnings) Such a great buy.

 

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Steps

Step 1

1. Strip all wall & floor tiles, Take wall + half wall down.

2. Remove corner spa, remove shower glass, vanity, toilet, all           fixtures.

3. Pushed shower wall back, to increase to double shower.

4. Lined walls with. new Villa board (Bunnings) fixed roof where wall was bought down. Top coated all joints before next step.

5. Waterproof floor and walls, after plumber hooked second shower outlet, changed toilet configuration to fit back to wall toilet.

6. Also added pipe/drainage to allow for vanity to be upgraded from single to double sink.

7. Added extra power points and lighting.

8. Then we tiled entire space with choice of 3 different tiles, to create industrial feel.

9. We then had new shower glass fitted, put strip drain and new tap wear throughout.

10. Added double vanity & shaving cabinets, put spa back in then added lighting, tastic then painted roof. 

 

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Jason
Community Manager
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

What a gorgeous bathroom you have created @Christie78. It looks not only functional but also a relaxing sanctuary where you can pamper yourself. Great work and thanks for sharing. 

 

Jason

 

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Dave-1
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Good Afternoon @Christie78 

I would be happy with that! Far out what an improvement, tho really you have lifted it out of the 80's and into now! :smile:

Nice work :smile:

 

I was wondering how long it took all up?

 

Dave

EricL
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Hello @Christie78 

 

It looks absolutely gorgeous, what an amazing transformation.

 

Thank you for sharing this wonderful project.

 

Eric

 

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Girlfromgoldie1
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Love this bathroom renovation! Can I ask where the tiles are from?

Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Hello @Girlfromgoldie1 

 

Let me tag @Christie78 to make them aware of your question.

 

If you need further assistance, please let us know.

 

Eric

 

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Christie78
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Hi Dave,

This was done fairly quickly, once we decided to go ahead it was all systems go.

Mind you we run a business, so it was weekends & after work.

We spent a weekend on demo,  had ordered a skip bin and put on driveway by the friday morning. We removed all brick, timber, gyprock and unsalvageable things like vanity & toilet in first weekend. sold existing shower screen on market place very quickly.

Through following week organised plumber, Electrition to come sort what we needed. Had window quote done to replace 2 windows with one big one. Had shower screen design and quote also done. (Knowing what you want and keeping simple helped)

From there... we grabbed all things required from Bunnings - waterproofing, villa board, white tile, toilet etc 

We picked and ordered tiles from local tile shop, and it all came together in roughly 2 months. 

Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Sure thing! white wall tiles from Bunnings, (We love these, great price and so easy to work with) bigger feature tiles were from Amber Tiles. 

Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Hi, Yeah sure! white subway tiles are from Bunnings, but Feature tiles purchased from Amber Tiles.

I fell in Love with them too. 

Christie78
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Re: Ensuite upgrade without big price

Around 2 months, We were pre planned... spent ages on pintrist! had Tiles ordered and waterproofing etc at the ready. Demo was done in 1 x weekend. 

Had tradies sorted to come check out what we needed also prior. 

We are lucky enough to have main bathroom to utilize as we needed.

We only had weekends and after work to get done!

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