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Every dollar counts these days. Heck, every penny counts. As a result, we’ve become the "Do it yourself," or "DIY" generation. Anything we can fix on our own, without the outside expenses of contractors, professionals or what-have-you, we attempt. The internet has obviously had a big effect on this, as most home projects – from changing your oil to adding an extra room onto the house – can be found online. Everyting down to where to hammer the final nail is there, described in stark detail.

Of course, there’s plenty of stuff to work on in between changing your oil and adding an extra room. Bathroom renovation, for example, is a popular do-it-yourself project, and there are tons of websites dedicated to the process.

Obviously the motivation for bathroom renovation is severalfold. First, you’d obviously like your bathoom to have a different look or feel. I know that my parents’ bathroom looked very different in the 1980s than it does today. As they got older, my dad renovated it to have a more classic, timeless look than the "Modern" look it sported 30 years ago. Of course that modern look is now a terribly dated look, while the classic look is now perfectly modern. Time paradox!

Secondly, maybe your bathroom isn’t up to snuff in terms of functionality. Perhaps you need a toilet with bigger pipes, or the showerhead doesn’t provide enough water pressure, or the sink drips. All of these are bathroom renovation projects that people throughout the country take on daily, and all of these have detailed project specs online and at your fingertips. All it takes is a quick google search, and you’re there.

And of course, when doing something like bathroom renovation, the goal is to save money. Sure you could get a professional in, but they’re going to charge you an arm and a leg. Doing it yourself means your only overhead is the cost of materials and whatever value you place on your time and labor. Me, I can hardly open a jar of pickles, let alone replace a toilet, so I’d probably just have a plumber come in. It’s not worth the time or the effort to me to work on something that I’ll probably get wrong in the end, anyway.

But if you’re a little more adept in teh manly arts, you might want to give it a shot and see if you can’t save yourself a few hundred bucks. In the end, that’s more money you can spend on beer to celebrate your domestic triumphs.

Which, of course, is the final reason that most people take on bathroom renovation. A man’s home is his castle, and you can’t be king if you’ve not fully conquered your castle. Enjoy that victory, men.

Tags: bathroom renovation

So you are considering bathroom renovations but you are afraid that the wife has plans to make the bathroom a pink palace of poofy.  Well bathroom renovations do not need to be a traumatic experience for the man of the house, all you have to do is to make these bathroom renovations when the little lady is not home.  It may sound a little underhanded but sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do to preserve the few spots in the house that can truly be called his.  The guy gets the attic and the basement and that is usually it.  Now with these bathroom renovations the guys can claim that one room in the house that we spend most of the time in anyways.

The first in this line of bathroom renovations is a need for a television while in the bathroom.  It is well known that men like to watch television and what better place to put a television than in the bathroom.  This bathroom renovation requires one television and a place to put it.  Where you put it and how you install it is up to you.  What do I look like, Bob Villa?

A Little Reading And A Little Music

Next up in bathroom renovations is a small safe installed somewhere near the throne where you can keep you special magazines for men only.  Of course I am talking about the home improvement magazines, car magazine, and sports magazines that men keep around for the articles.  Why keep them in a safe?  Well men cannot let their manly secrets out to everyone in the house.  That kind of information in the wrong hands can be very dangerous to the man if they fall into the wrong hands.

Last up on bathroom renovations is major tunes.  A stereo must be installed with the tuner within reach of the throne and the speakers mounted in each corner of the bathroom.  No less than a 5 CD changer should be installed because you may be in there for a while and the receiver must be a powerful one.  You can use whatever factors you need to determine the power of the stereo receiver to install but I recommend making sure it is at least loud enough to drown out the sound of the pounding on the bathroom door that will inevitably be going on after you have made your bathroom renovations.

Tags: bathroom renovation, home improvement, renovation