Dont Know Remodeling

Once you made primary design decisions including location, size, shape, components, and colors you need to find a way to communicate your decisions to others. Who? First, the local building department will want to know what you’re up to before they issue a building permit (Bathroom Prep). In addition, you’ll need written plans to help estimate materials as well as to guide you and any other remodelers on the job. “Let’s see, I think I wanted the bathtub somewhere about here.”

The answer, of course, if to draw up plans. To be valuable, those plans must be proportional and drawn to scale. You don’t want to try to put a 6 ft. bathtub in a 4 ft. opening. There are many ways you can draw up your plans. Let’s consider each to determine which works best for you.

Most folks start with sketches in a notebook or on graph paper. In fact, they make many sketches with various modifications: the tub on one wall then another, one with a larger lavatory, another with a shower instead of a bath, etc.

You also can buy design kits through home decorating centers. The kits include graph paper and cutouts of common components that you can lay this way and that, easily moving them around until they fit your ideas. One advantage to these kits is that the components are scaled to size. That is, the toilet and tub cutouts are the correct size to match the graph paper. Some of the labor is done for you.

You’ll probably go through numerous sketches and drafts before you finalize on one or two preferred designs, typically one design with a variation. You then can make an architectural drawing of the sketches.