How to plan and budget for a major home renovation; deciding whether to pay cash or to finance the work; plus how to budget for and calculate cost overruns.
I’ve slowed down posting in the last few months as I’ve been busy with a different kind of project… helping my parents plan the renovation of their 1980’s home (long overdue…
We purchased this home in late 2018 with a plan to renovate throughout the early winter of 2019 and into Spring. We wrestled with the idea of making a few small improvements and overall aesthetic updates, or taking it down to the studs, adding on, and making it an entirely new and updated space. Nevertheless, the latter option won. We did, however, pair down the addition and kept it to a modest first-floor bump out to expand the kitchen and mudroom while converting two of the upstairs bedrooms to a master suite. The new primary suite hosts a bedroom, two adjoining closets, and a primary bathroom with a soaking tub, stand-up shower, and a custom vanity from our cabinet shop.
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Good morning to you from the dust hole. We are now, hopefully, in the final stages but, as The Mad Husband pointed out, it's the bit where we have nothing and then suddenly we have everything. The base units are in but unpainted and with no handles. The appliances are…