BATHROOM REMODEL UNDER $500

Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. So today we are sharing another bathroom on a budget renovation. We have lived here for almost seven years and we are just now getting to our basement bathroom. So this is probably not a space you guys have ever seen on our channel before, but we gave ourselves a $500 budget like we did in our last bathroom remodel. And I'm so excited to show you guys how this one turned out. There's always little things you can do to really revamp your space on any kind of budget. One of my favorite things to share on our channel is ways you can make different spaces in your home look beautiful without spending a fortune. So I'm hoping this video will give you guys some ideas. So day one was really Thomas removing all the things we no longer wanted in the bathroom. He took out the mirror and the old light so he could patch up that wall to prep it for the brick. Okay, well I wasn't expecting that. So instead of like framing it in, I'm just going to put a two by four behind it and then cut a piece of sheet just like true to two by four here and here and maybe here and here also. And then we got rid of our shower door because it was cracked and really outdated and he removed the vanity for now, but we will actually be bringing this back into the space once we fix it up. I wanted to quickly show you some of the materials we got for the space. So this is the flooring that we chose and the total cost for the bathroom was only $45 in flooring. Again, our bathroom is quite small, so it didn't take a lot of flooring and I knew I wanted real brick for the backsplash. So we bought this thin brick at Lowe's and we got two boxes of it for $71 each. I watched a video and when it's done indoors, you can use this construction adhesive to seal it. That way I don't have to cover the whole wall and hope that it doesn't dry before I get it stuck because I can do outside and make my cuts still. So I know he just got done saying he didn't want to use grout on the back wall to apply the brick, but he actually regrets that decision. It took a lot longer and he had to secure them with screws until they were dry, which also slowed down the process even more. So his tip would be to just use normal grout for this step. Cut the brick. He used a diamond saw blade. He also used a chisel for a few of them and he said he was able to cut them perfectly. So those are a few tips if you don't have a tile saw. This is the grout that we chose and the color is biscuit. It dried a perfect creamy color, which is what I was hoping for. He used a piping bag to apply it to the wall and worked in three row sections at a time. And his suggestion is to wait about 15 minutes after applying it to start smearing it in. When it was super wet, it was a lot harder to work with. So having a little bit of dry time helped to smooth it out. Obviously as he went, the grout became a little more dry. So you'll have to work quicker, but those are just some tips if you're trying this at home. These are the sconces I chose for the backsplash and I ordered them off Amazon. The total for both of them, it came in a pack of two was just $37. Now, when I went to link this, it says that it's currently unavailable. I'm still going to link it, but I'm also going to link a few similar sconces just because they're so affordable on Amazon. So I will try to find something similar in case these are still out of stock and you're wanting to order something like this. Now it's time to install the floors and we picked these up at floor and decor. Again, I will have them linked below. Our bathroom is pretty small. I'm sure you can tell by now, but we only needed eight boards total to finish the room. The quickest way to get a measurement for a floor is not to pull out your tape measure and market, take your board and flip it around. So it's backwards. Okay. My big tongue is here and my big tongue is here, but they would be on the same side, which makes it backwards. I'm going to go all the way to the wall where I want it, lay it here, and then I'm going to Mark at the end of the board. And then when I cut it, this is the piece I'll use and I'll flip it around and slide it in. Make sure it's lined up. Perfect. And then you set it down. I knew I wanted some kind of decorative trim in this bathroom and I went back and forth between either running shiplap three quarters of the way up the wall or more of a board and batten fill. And because the budget was really tight, I decided to do the board and batten Thomas bought one sheet of MDF board for $18. And he was able to get all of the trim out of this one piece by ripping it into three and a half inch pieces. If you happen to have a table saw doing your trim this way will save you a ton of money. We figured it saved us about $200 by not using actual pieces of trim. There are some extra steps you'll want to take. If you're going to do this technique, you'll want to sand down all the edges really good and then caulk it once it's in place. He even caulked the top piece completely to fill in any little holes that might have been visible otherwise. But just doing these little extra things, we'll give it a really nice finished look. You might have noticed the pen marks on the wall. And that's because I had him draw out the trim idea before he made the cuts. It helped to get a visual of where each piece was going to go. And to see if I wanted to move the trim pieces closer and how many I wanted on the wall. Now it's time to paint the vanity. And one other thing I added were these wooden knobs. They were only a dollar for the pack and they really helped change the look of this vanity, obviously with the paint as well. But I love old cottage homes and they often have wooden knobs on cabinets. So you've probably noticed if you've watched any other videos, I have these on a lot of my cabinets. The color I'm using was a can of old paint I had lying around. So I'll link the color below. But when painting small cabinets, instead of buying a full gallon of paint, I always buy cabinet paint from Lowe's in the quart size. And it's always under $20. I just painted a large hutch in our kitchen with that kind of paint. And I still had half of a quart of paint left. So you really don't need a lot. And that's why I would suggest, especially if you're doing something as small as a vanity, you only need a little bit of paint. The wood piece we use for the countertop was actually from an old counter that we had. And we had just like a scrap piece left of it. So Thomas measured it and made sure that it would fit here. We only had to cut a little bit off to make it fit into this space. And then he only needed a scrap two by two piece to finish trimming on one of the sides. The vessel sink and faucet were both from Amazon and together, they cost around a hundred dollars. So when we do projects on really small budgets like this, I always make design choices that will make the most impact, but cost the least. So I chose to keep our vanity, paint it, use scrap wood for the counter. And then our only expense for that would be the sink and the faucet. That one decision saved us hundreds of dollars because to buy a full setup of a vanity, a countertop sink and faucet can easily put you at around $500. So that's just another tip decide what can be repurposed and what will make the most impact. And then of course search for the best deals. Here's the final look of the bathroom. And I'm so happy with how this turned out, especially on a budget of only $500. One of my favorite changes in the space was actually removing the shower door because it really made the bathroom feel so much bigger. That was a really inexpensive way to make a big change. Another way to make a big change on a small budget is the trim hack Thomas shared using just one piece of $18 MDF board to make your own trim. And the paint we used was the express can of paint from Lowe's and it's only $16 at our Lowe's. So the trim and paint together was just around 30 to $40. And that made such a difference, but that's everything for this video. I hope you got some inspiration for ways you can make over your own space on a budget. We have tons of videos just like this on our channel. So if you haven't yet hit that red subscribe button, make sure you do that and we will see you guys in the next video.