I have to agree with you with what you are saying. If anyone wants to do a bathroom remodel on a low budget, then a bucket of paint, new hardware and accessories are the way to go. In my case, my bathroom was way out dated, and I had to take the bull by the horns and do the whole nine yards. Don’t get me wrong I loved every minute of it. I am a “do it your self” kinda gal. And even though we didn’t have a huge budget to play with, we managed to keep the cost down by doing most of the remodel ourselves. We had some practice in our apartment when we did the remodel in the bathroom there.
I learned so much and when we decided that it was time to do our own bathroom, I was more then prepared. I took the jack hammer, and went at it, all the tile had to go, and man, I enjoyed it. After that it was time to plaster up the walls where damage had been done, so it would be ready to lay the new tile against it.
Having a full time job, the only time for me to do any tiling was after work and on my days off, but the sense of accomplishment when a section was done is just such a great feeling. I know that there must be a lot of ladies out there that want to do the same thing. All I can say, don’t be scared to get your hands dirty, find out how to go about plastering walls, and laying tile.
You can get ready to go mastic, you stir it up and of you go. What you need to have handy is a level, and a wet sponge to clean any drips that may fall on to your brand new wall tile.
We did take out the bathtub, and replaced it with our own shower stall build from scratch.
I do have a website, and on the home page,and the about us page I have put the pictures of my own total remodeled bathroom.
If you so wish, you can have a read through and see through on this site: http://www.bestbathroomremodel.com
When I look at those pictures it gives me a sense of pride. I think for a woman to have little help from a man, (because I told him hands off, this is my project) LOL, if I can do it, any woman can do it. I agree, it does take patients and determination, but the rewards are just fantastic.
I would love to hear from other women who are thinking of doing a bathroom remodel.

Thanks, Thea