When finishing your basement, professionals always agree on one of the most important remodeling tips: install basement bathrooms in your project. Basement bathrooms are well worth the investment in terms of convenience and adding overall value to your home. When realtors give specifications on a home, one of the key specifications is how many bathrooms a home has. For determining tax and appraisal values, basement bathrooms definitely increase the value of a home.

10 Steps To Help You With A Basement Bathroom Installation:

1. Choose the location for your bathroom. You will want to install your basement bathrooms directly under an upstairs existing bathroom. The reason for this is plumbing. It is so much easier to tap into the existing plumbing (of another bathroom) than to try and route separate plumbing for your bathroom. The savings are substantial as well. If you have a laundry center (or hook up) in the basement; this might be a place to consider expanding and adding your bathroom.
2. Decide the basement floor plans for the bathroom. Evaluate whether or not you will require a half or full bath. If you do not have a bedroom in the basement, you many only need a half bath that consists of a toilet and sink. A good tip is to use chalk to mark off the facilities in the bathroom to ensure that there is enough walking space around everything.
3. You may want to consult a plumbing professional to help you with this project if you have never dealt with a project like this before.
4. Build your sub walls of moisture resistant lumber and drywall that is rated for use in bathrooms. Hopefully this will alleviate any mold problems in the future.
5. Select and purchase your plumbing fixtures (toilet, sink, vanity, faucets, and shower or tub if you will have one). You will also need to assess whether or not you need a toilet pump for flushing waste upwards. If your bathroom will be below the level of your sewage drain pipes then you will need one of these toilet pumps to pump away waste. If you already have a washer or sink in the basement you may not.
6. Install your fixtures and plumbing, take your time and do a proper job here at this step because negligence to this step will result in expensive consciences.
7. You will want a plumber to come and at least check your work for completeness at this point.
8. Once a professional plumber has approved your work as satisfactory, you are ready to do the finishing work.
9. Lay your flooring and finish your drywall, again a lot of attention should be paid to this step especially when installing your drywalls to ensure that you properly try and water proof your basement for future reasons, moisture in walls and flooring will result in mold and deteriorating construction.
10. Paint and add any other decorative touches you would like to add.

Basement bathrooms are not a do it yourself project for beginners. Even seasoned do it yourselfers contract this project out. You can do the preliminary work and hire a plumber for the actual installation of the fixtures and plumbing. If you will be going this route; you may want to consult the plumber you hire and show your plans to them. They can point out any problems before you get started and keep you from making costly mistakes. If they have a commitment from you that they will be performing the actual plumbing, they may be more than willing to give you pointers on things such as placement, sub walls and finishing work.

Basement Bathroom Ideas

There are many basement bathroom ideas and you have a choice of what you want to do with this sacred space. If you are fortunate enough to have a basement and you have the space available to build a bathroom the choices are endless on the type of bathroom that you want but you will need to limit your imagination to the limitations of your budget.

You will most likely be thinking about a bathroom because there is already a guest room down there or even a play room for the kids. But maybe the kids have grown up and left home and you now want to add that quest room you have been dreaming about along with a guest bathroom. The reasons why you want a bathroom are as many as the type of bathroom that you may want. But if you want a bathroom that includes a bath, sink and a shower then obviously you will have to install an air vent so that the air can be removed for evaporation as well as the smell. But the vent does not have to be driven by a large system and it can easily be connected to the existing system in the house without a problem.

If you have already made a decision to build a bathroom because of whatever reason it may be even if you do not have a room down there but you want to have another bathroom in the house without adding a bathroom to an existing bedroom then you need to consider the basics that are needed to make a bathroom.

• Bath/shower

• Toilet

• Sink

• Fans

• Shelving

These all might need to be added on one or two walls as well as a laundry basket and a table and chair depending on the amount of space available. If you have a lot of space available to build a bathroom then you will also have a larger budget because the bathroom is the most expensive room in your house to build per square foot because of the tiling and lighting that is needed.

There are many light colored decorative accessories that can be added to the bathroom from soap dishes to bath mats. One of the most important parts of a bathroom is the mirror which can be said to be the heart and soul of the bathroom and it can make a big difference in a small space, if it is big enough and it is put in the correct place. The ideas of what to do when you have the bathroom built is the exiting part because the choices you have are going to depend on your imagination. But you should stay within the confines of the theme of the house, and the bathroom is a private space that should be accessible and easy. You should be careful to make sure that the door off the bathroom does not open to the toilet and rather opens to the dressing table or the vanity table. They say that to be  Fung Shway correct you should never open a door to see a mirror.