With the housing crunch keeping more homeowners in homes they’ve outgrown, and the economy keeping renovation budgets tight, more homeowners are looking for smaller home improvement projects that offer big return on investment. And it’s possible to make a significant change in your home with projects that don’t require any big structural changes.

In the past, if your bathroom was too small, you might tear it out, take space from here and there and not think twice about turning it into a huge master bath suite. The new twist is that homeowners will try to make it more livable with the smaller touches: more mirrors to add a sense of “space,” new lighting, glass shower enclosures and updated fixtures and hardware. Structurally, it’s the same bathroom, but now it has an airier feel.

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