<p>Sorry for the confusion. The cabinet was going to be high on the wall, not very deep. There would have been no problem with headroom. That’s a good suggestion to check the local code.</p>
<p>Shocked, just shocked. </p>
<p>I did my little downstairs bathroom last year, on the cheap. Sig other gutted the thing, put in a new subfloor over old ruined maple. Bought marble tile, which he installed and I grouted with instructions from the tile store. Repainted and installed the old baseboards. As it is a historic house, good baseboards are important to maintain congruence in style. Bought a vanity from Home Depot that worked in the tiny space, and faucets on sale. D’s friend, a design major picked a paint that worked well with one of the floor tile colors. After looking endlessly at cabinets on line, I ended up with a flat mirror from Target and a small matching storage cabinet with towel hooks. A few odds and ends completed the look. The Toto toilet came with a rebate from my city. The marble tile gives the room some depth. It looks not bad, for something around $2000. I hired out some work from a friend’s son, and had a custom threshold built for the raised floor. </p>
<p>My point, is that a few inexpensive components can be mixed in with some higher end eyecatchers to reduce cost.</p>
<p>So, I’m sure it illegal for my husband to have, use, or come near tools in at least 7 states. WE will be looking at having everything done by others. This is depressing.</p>
<p>I did mine about a year and a half ago- standard size 5x7 bath, gutted to the studs. Labor was $5500 and included the drywall, plumbing materials and basics- I forget the term he used, but the basic building materials. I supplied the tub, shower doors, cabinets, toilets, tiles, lighting, sink, faucets & fixtures on my own. I received Lowe’s gift cards in a variety of ways (Lowes rewards card, health insurance deal where if I took classes online and jumped through hoops, I could get gift cards). All told, I spent about $9000. I also changed the location of the tub and toilet. </p>
<p>I only have one bathroom in my house so he re-set the toilet almost every night. He did work while I was on vacation one week also so he could do the floor. The rest of the time was very interesting… not something I want to do again! I used a contractor that a friend recommended.</p>
<p>We’ve been remodeling the new house this year, and that included one of the full baths. The toilet was brand new, and I bought the sink/vanity, wall cabinet, other medicine cabinet/mirror, flooring and paint at Home Depot. Kept the tub as all it needed was a good scrub down and the sink taps from the old sinks (they were new too, luckily and I liked them!).The work was done by a handyman I was lucky enough to find. The whole job was less than $700.</p>
<p>We felt sure that bathroom renovations could be done more frugally than our original bid (arranged on a lark, when we dropped into a new store). But since they were more than 2x what we expected, we dropped the idea. </p>
<p>Since them I have been surprised how often I read about master bath renovations over $25K. Obviously you don’t have to spend that much (except maybe in pricey neighborhoods). Just didn’t know it was so common.</p>
<p>The contractors price their work based on neighborhoods. Pricey neighborhoods get higher price. But the workmanship is slightly better, and the cleanups are more frequent. They hire a cleaning person just to make sure no dust going to be left on the piano for example. The grout line will be super straight etc.</p>
<p>OP here. We have found a fabulous place and will have it all done for around $10K, which is pretty much what we figured in the beginning. Much more reasonable.</p>
<p>Good for you!</p>
<p>We recently collected bids for converting our unheated tiny tudroom into laundry room.
Expected some high quotes, northern NJ not known for reasonable contractors.</p>
<p>Total gut, insulation, run plumbing for W/D, electric, heat, tile floor.
Estimates came in $4800 to $12500!!!</p>
<p>Were going with a licensed contractor with a $6500 estimate, recommeded by our longtime handyman.</p>
<p>
I read that as turdroom, lol</p>
<p>This thread is scaring me. We need a new tub - the bottom of ours actually broke. Had no idea it might be this costly.</p>
<p>We were going to have a bathroom redo on our very small master bath … stall shower, toilet, cabinet, sink, countertop, etc. The quotes started at $10k. We also needed to do our kitchen. We opted for the kitchen … three times the cost of the bathroom, but at least we entertain in our kitchen. :)</p>
<p>Dang, may have to install the tub ourselves at these prices. Don’t want to spend a fortune but sure would like to be able to soak in a tub again. Our master bath just has a shower. I’d love to put a big tub in there, but sure don’t want to spend this sort of money. Guess we’ll be living with our 70s not so chic facilities for a while.</p>
<p>Gosh darn autocorrect…
Although our tiny mudroom is nasty enough right now to qualify as a TURDroom.
:)</p>
<p>BTW, is mudroom a term used throughout the country?
Ive been asked just what IS a mudroom; throught it was universal…</p>
<p>I’ve heard the term, but no one here uses it. I wonder if it’s used more in places where it snows?</p>
<p>I’m pulling up this thread so I can enter the final cost of my bathroom remodel. (Finished in December, but I just now got around to adding everything up). </p>
<p>Project involved very small bathroom off of the “master” bedroom (this is a small, 50’s style tract home). Bathroom has 400 sq. ft of floor space plus a 30x36in shower. Project involved complete demo & replacement – new wiring, new walls, new floor, new shower, sink, toilet. </p>
<p>Contractor originally bid around $12,500 – with me to separately bear cost of most materials. </p>
<p>In the end, the total costs ran to just under $17,000.</p>
<p>The fixtures & materials that I bought were just under $1900 total. </p>
<p>Contract labor plus materials they provided came to about $15,100. </p>
<p>Some of the extra costs were for extras that the contract called for me to pay for, like permit fees and dump fees.</p>
<p>Some was for extra unanticipated work, such as replacement of rotting floor boards and a new subfloor. </p>
<p>This is in California, SF Bay area. I do have a couple of nice extras, like a custom built cabinet to fit an odd nook in the room. I probably saved a little by buying most of the fixtures myself online or from Home Depot. </p>
<p>I did work with a contractor who brought in a variety of subcontractors (plumber, cultured marble guy, electrician).</p>
<p>A 400 sf bathroom isHUGE!</p>
<p>Yikes – I mean 40 sq. feet! (typed it wrong) And that’s including the shower stall - basically it’s an 8 x 5ft space.</p>
<p>Congrats! Though with home prices much lower in other parts of the country, I don’t see how one can justify those bucks on one room. Ouch.</p>
<p>I’ve got a tiny bathroom remodel starting. We are gutting it and expanding it a bit into a walk-in closet, they are going to build me a closet organizer, and redo the paneled walls/fiberboard ceiling in an adjoining bedroom. It will run $25,000. I justify it because I want a new bathroom, have been living in this house over 25 years (paid $60,000 for it then!) I expect to be living here another 20 years and want to enjoy the space.</p>
<p>Oops, didn’t mean at all to sound critical of others’ decisions. I just meant that one can not expect to recoup that on a sale. I do think it can make a sale, tho.</p>