Forgot to mention, we could do a heated floor for about the same price as the skylight, if that would be better!

Just a thought: you can add a solatube (or, with more work + expense, a skylight) later on. But adding a heated floor later would be much more difficult and expensive, because you'd have to rip up the floor to do that.

If you want all those items, but they aren't in the budget right now, put in the heated floor and several inexpensive but decent looking lights. Then once you've recovered from the building expenses, you can add in the solatubes/skylights and different fixtures.

Everytime there's a thread about "your best bathroom decision," heated floors almost always comes out on top.

I agree with kasmi on this one. Install the floor now, wait for the solatube until the budget allows.

I installed a radiant heat floor nearly 7 years ago in my small bathroom. It is one thing that I have never regretted spending the money on- it's such a luxury and really warms up the space.

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depends on your climate. Where I live I don't think I'd put the money in a heated floor (phx area). If I lived up north or back east, I'd think it money well spent.

I have a skylight in the kitchen and 1 in mstr bath - love them both.

One thing to consider with your existing skylight -- if you flare out the sides, you will get more light in the room. We did that with ours and it was a great change.

I had a kitchen with an open and adjoining large eating area. There were two large skylights in the eating area, and the kitchen section was extremely dark. We put two solatubes in the kitchen area and the light they let in was MUCH brighter than the two skylights! The solatube guy said it would be, and I didn't believe him, but it was so, so true.

We got the option with the light inside the solatube for night, but we just rarely used it. I'd skip it if I use them again.

For light, put in the solatubes. You get more light and they're cheaper.