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You may have picked out your Brizo faucet, inifinity tub, and subway tile, but beyond those luxury items do you really know how much your bathroom remodel will cost? Here's a great discussion on Oldhouseweb with some interesting insight from homeowners who have paid contractors to do the job as well as those who have done the work themselves.

Well maybe not forever but this simple how-to from Danny Lipford will fix your bathtub leak in short order by simply replacing the washer and sealing the valve threads with Teflon tape.

From the Building a timberframe home from scratch blog we've found a great posting of how they used scraps and leftovers from their slate roof installation to tile their bathroom and sunroom. With the help of a wet saw they were on their way. This is a great example of finding alternative uses for building materials.

According to CNN Money the renovation that adds instant value to your home is a bathroom - up to 20% more value. An extra bathroom or half-bath (sink and toilet) also improves your quality of life and there are almost always no regrets when it comes to addition like this.