You have completed your revised plan, or focused on the bathroom companies you require revised plans from, and have asked them back. How do you make a choice? Is it a good bathroom design and expensive? or mediocre bathroom design and good price ? Is it a recommended bathroom company or unknown? The simple answer is to communicate your reservations and see what the good designer from the recommended bathroom company can do with the price. You will be surprised how often a simple question can get you what you want! I prefer direct communication over guess work everytime. It is always at the discression of a companies designer to know what their limits are with profit , and tell you if you are going too far! If it is not possible to find common ground, then its an unfortunate area of controversy if you take the good bathroom plan to a cheaper company, because quite often the essence of the bathroom design can be lost. Some of my best designs whilst working for a particular bathroom company have been supplied and fitted by another, often with inferior bathroom furniture and inferior equipment. Sometimes clients have explained that price was the issue, and thanked me for my design services, but mostly they have avoided me, especially when the bathroom company I worked for didn't charge for the bathroom design! It is always interesting when I get feed back to see how these schemes have developed. Price is important, but in the end quality of design and the equipment should always come first if you want long service.
It is necessary at this stage to take your scheme further and eliminate the alternatives. It is useful to borrow sample doors, worktops and tiles etc, and stand with them in your bathroom. The longer you can keep them the better your resolve wil be. It is easier to get a feel for your Bathroom scheme if you combine this with getting your bathroom scheme visualised (preferably by me!).
It is difficult to advise you of all the design methods I use, but I will be adding some layout ideas soon to help. I still think it is cost effective, whatever you are spending, to take your revised bathroom layout to a good designer to get their opinion.
I would expect at this stage that your designer will have a well-formed bathroom plan for whatever layout options you have discussed. He should also have a good opinion about which bathroom scheme is best visually and practically. Any bathroom visuals should give a clear coloured photo-realistic explanation of what is going on. I often need to go away and totally revise the bathroom scheme if the elements to the design are altered too much. If you are unsure and need more time to think at this stage this is fine, a trashed bathroom scheme is quite normal and preferable to a big mistake. Many bathroom companies will not let you take the bathroom design away though, so you will be in a little difficulty to remember where everything is, aswell as how it looks, which is why it is easier to pay a fee and take the design, or use my bathroom design service and cut out the guesswork.
If your bathroom company is using a quote system like Easyquote then they should be able to provide a revised quote with most things itemised quickly, and an indication of what deal they are prepared to do. If you are getting other quotes then it is important to make sure the bathroom company is on the right track before too much time and money is wasted. If 'short term offers' are on the table, then it is important to make sure they are genuine, by looking on the internet for comparisons. It is unusual for a bathroom company to refuse a sale at the discounted price after an offer has finished, if you were negotiating during the offer period and decided to buy from them! It is only the sheds that are rigid and un-cooperative in this respect. Most small bathroom companies use this tactic to get out-standing customers to order, so there is normally a little flexibility in their game!
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