Expert advice on planning, budgeting, and designing your bathroom renovation in Calgary.
Six weeks into my first bathroom remodel in 2020, I stood staring at beautiful penny tile that I’d carefully chosen for our shower floor. It looked exactly like the Pinterest inspiration that had captivated me for months. It also required 45 minutes of grout cleaning every weekend to prevent mold in the hundreds of grout […]
I spent $4,700 on my first budget bathroom remodel in 2020, and honestly, I was terrified the entire time that cutting costs meant I’d end up with a space that screamed “cheap.” Three weeks after completion, my neighbor asked which designer I’d hired. That moment taught me something crucial about budget bathroom renovations: strategic spending […]
Last week, my neighbor Sarah asked me this exact question while standing in her 1970s powder-blue bathroom with matching tile, a cracked pedestal sink, and fixtures that looked like they belonged in a time capsule. She had $18,000 saved and couldn’t decide whether to renovate or just live with it another few years. I told […]
Three months into my first bathroom remodel back in 2019, I stood in what used to be my guest bathroom, surrounded by exposed pipes and half-finished tile work, watching my contractor sheepishly explain why we’d blown past our $15,000 budget by another $4,200. The culprit? Water damage was hidden behind the walls that we discovered […]
I’ll never forget opening that first contractor estimate for my guest bathroom in 2021. The number staring back at me was $18,500 for a space barely 50 square feet. My kitchen remodel the year before cost $31,000 for 200 square feet. The math made no sense. I was paying nearly $370 per square foot for […]