BATHROOM GUIDES
These guides are written in the order a renovation actually happens. Start with what moves the price and how the stages stack up, move on to layout, tiles and shower design, then read the wet-area detail that decides whether the room still looks right in ten years.
Every guide names the trade and the service page that does the work, so reading can turn into a plan. Bathroom Renovation Murrumbeena renovates bathrooms, ensuites and laundries in Murrumbeena, Carnegie, Hughesdale, Oakleigh, Chadstone, Malvern East, Bentleigh East and Ormond.
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PLANNING & BUDGETThree guides: what drives the cost, what to decide before demolition, and where the weeks go.
DESIGN IDEASFive guides: small bathrooms, ensuites, layouts, tiles and walk-in showers.
WET AREASOne guide: waterproofing, and how a failed membrane shows itself from outside the room.
Reading order is a suggestion, not a rule.
Reference photo, not a company project: a bright bathroom with a marble-look tiled walk-in shower behind a clear glass screen. It shows the kind of finished room these guides help you plan.
READ IT FIRST, BUILD IT ONCE
A decision changed on paper costs nothing. The same decision changed after the waterproofing goes down costs rework and time.
WORK OUT THE PLAN BEFORE THE TRADES ARE BOOKED
Most budget surprises in a bathroom come from decisions made late, not from expensive taps. These three guides cover the choices that set the scope: what you move, what you keep, and what has to be chosen before the room is opened up.
Then take the plan to Full Bathroom Renovations or the 12-stage process.
Bathroom Renovation Cost Guide: What Affects the Price
Floor area is only part of the story. Relocating the toilet or the shower waste, opening a wall to gain 200mm, the tile format you choose and the amount of set-out work in the floor all push labour up or down. This guide explains what sits behind the numbers so you can read a quote line by line.
Read the guide · Related service: Full Bathroom Renovations
Bathroom Renovation Checklist
A stage-by-stage list of what to settle and when: layout and door swing, tile and grout selections, tapware finishes, vanity width, niche positions, glazing and lighting. Work through it early and the trades arrive to a room where nothing is still being decided.
Read the guide · Related service: Bathroom Design
How Long Does a Bathroom Renovation Take?
Where the time actually goes: strip-out, rough-in, screed, waterproofing and its cure, tiling, then fit-off and finishing. This guide explains which stages simply cannot be compressed, and which ones sit waiting on a selection that has not been made.
Read the guide · Related: Our 12-Stage Process
DESIGN IDEAS, ROOM BY ROOM
Five guides about making a space work before it has to look good. Start with the room you have, not the photo you saved.
Small Bathroom Ideas That Make Space Work
Wall-hung vanities, recessed niches, sliding or outward doors and a shower screen that does not crowd the entry — the moves that buy usable floor in a compact room.
Ensuite Renovation Ideas
Ensuites answer to the bedroom next door: quiet fittings, controlled light, a screen line that suits the door swing, and storage split between two people.
Read the guide
Service: Ensuite Renovations
Bathroom Layout Ideas and Planning Tips
Where the drainage already sits, how far fixtures can sensibly move, clearances that keep a room comfortable, and the layouts that suit older south-east Melbourne floor plans.
Read the guide
Service: Bathroom Design
THE TWO DECISIONS PEOPLE CHANGE LAST
Bathroom Tile Ideas: Styles, Sizes & Layouts
Tile size changes how much cutting and set-out a room needs, grout colour changes how a wall reads, and a feature wall works best when it has one job. This guide runs through formats, patterns and the practical side of keeping a floor fall correct.
Read the guide · Service: Bathroom Tiling
Walk-In Shower Ideas
Open showers depend on drainage and fall more than on the screen. This guide covers linear versus centre drains, screen lines that keep water in, niche placement and the step-free options worth planning early.
Read the guide · Service: Walk-In Showers
THE STAGE YOU NEVER SEE AGAIN
Waterproofing is buried under screed and tiles within days of going down, and it is judged years later — usually by a lifting skirting board in the hallway or a musty smell that never clears. It is the one part of a bathroom worth understanding before the work starts.
Bathroom Waterproofing Guide for Homeowners
What a membrane has to cover, why corners, junctions and penetrations fail first, how floor falls and drains work with the waterproofing rather than against it, and what the early signs of a failed wet area look like from the room next door.
Read the guide · Services: Waterproofing and Leaking Shower Repairs
READPick the guide that matches the room you have.
MATCHOpen the named service page for design options and running order.
COMPARELook through the project board for a room like yours.
ASKSend a quote request, or put a question through the contact form.
DONE READING? LET'S PRICE THE ROOM
Tell us the suburb, the type of bathroom and roughly what you want changed. We will come back to you about the next step and what a scope like yours involves.
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