Remodeling a Bathroom
on a Budget

Most bathroom cost articles quote national averages, which are useless in Coffee County. These are the bands we quote in Middle Tennessee.

Bathroom prices around here

• Half-bath refresh: from around $4,500
• Full bathroom: $12,000 to $22,000
• Master suites and kitchens: up from there, depending on scope

One fixed price, set before we start. The number on the quote is the number you pay, so a budget is something you can plan around rather than something that drifts while the work is underway.

Spend the money behind the wall

A shower fails from the inside out. The waterproofing, the substrate, and the pan decide whether the room lasts fifteen years or three, and none of them are visible when we hand it back to you.

Protect this part first when the budget is tight. We would rather set a plain white subway tile over proper waterproofing than a showpiece mosaic over a rushed pan, and we will say so out loud at the quote.

Places you can save

Keep the layout

Moving a toilet, a drain, or a wall is where bathroom budgets go to die. Plumbing relocation adds cost and days. Keeping fixtures where they sit and changing everything you can see is the single largest saving available.

Choose porcelain over stone

Large-format porcelain now reads as marble from a foot away, costs less, and asks nothing of you. Natural stone wants sealing and babying. On a budget job, porcelain is the easy call.

Refinish what is sound

A vanity carcass in good shape can take new doors, new hardware, and a new top for a fraction of a replacement. We will tell you when a cabinet is worth keeping and when it is particle board that will swell the first time it gets wet.

Do one room right

Two half-done bathrooms please nobody. One finished bathroom raises what the house is worth to live in and what it is worth to sell. Start with the one you use every morning.

Two shortcuts that cost more

Tiling over the old surround

It looks like a saving on day one. It traps whatever was already failing, and the next repair means tearing out both layers instead of one.

A shower pan without proper waterproofing

This is the most common failure we get called to fix, and by then the damage has reached the subfloor. The rebuild costs several times what doing it right would have.

Getting a number you can plan with

We come look, we measure, and you get a fixed-price quote within 24 hours. Nothing about it is a range, and nothing about it changes once the walls are open, short of you asking for something different.

Tell us the budget you have in mind at the visit. We will tell you what it buys, and if the number and the room do not meet, we will say that too rather than start and discover it together.