Thursday, October 28, 2010

Cost Cutting Options

I have been looking at the project to see where changes can be made to keep the design the same but bring down the price…

Alternatives would be to:

1) Delete lighting from top of back wall cabinet, just have solid doors (this would then avoid the up charge applied to the cabinet for interior finishing)

2) Eliminate crown molding from around the room

3) Replace the trim around the door and window, but not take it around the mirror. Paint trim around window to match door color (not vanity). Install a decorative mirror instead of the tile work/wood frame concept.

4) Standard two coat single color paint technique rather than decorative.

5) Delete pendant lighting and stick with recessed lights only above vanity.

6) Change to a standard, tall, two piece white toilet, rather than the one piece model

Do any of the above appeal to you?

Jill

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Cost Estimate

We met last night with Jill. We have a few things left to decide:What do we want for lights - recessed, pendants, or a combination of the two?
  • The color we chose for the cabinets is no longer available. What color do we want now?
  • Do we want a bottom drawer on the vanity?
  • Should we switch to an oval vessel sink so that we could go with a 18" vanity, saving three inches of space?
These are details. The big question is the cost. The total was just shy of $21K.

Do we want to spend that kind of money on a powder room?

Time to think.