Home Renovation on A Tight Budget
Your home is the biggest investment you can ever have. However, you don’t need to sink your life savings to realize your dream home. Here are some tips to renovate your home with a small budget.
Step 1: Plan Your Renovation
Planning is the most important task you can have at hand. Good detailed planning will reveal lots of things about your ideas of renovation and that you’ve covered all aspects of your renovation. This involves sketching your desired layout to the nearest inch, of space, choosing the material, choosing the interior design, choosing your paint and overall aesthetics. This also includes the cost of material, transport, labor, and installation.
Step: 2: Buy Your Own Material at a Bargain
There are constantly lots of bargains all year round, so you would need to shop regularly to find the right bargains. Most items are seasonal and may go out of fashion depending on customer demand, however, some popular items are available all year round. The seasonal items may fluctuate in price depending on supply and demand including market trend. For the purposes of renovation, each person will have his or her own taste and looks, and this will dictate how you want to spend money on the good stuff.
Step 3: Piecemeal your work
It’s important to break the renovation down by task, discipline, and sequence. Since you supply the material, you would only need to pay the tradesperson their hourly rate and eliminate expensive markups. Each tradesperson is specialized in their own field of work and it’s hard to find a generalist who is good in everything; even if they do, they don’t guarantee their work. It’s important to visualize the detailed work of each tradesperson so that there are no gaps or overlaps in tasks. Sometimes a lack of understanding will end up in duplicate work and expenses for the homeowner because somethings have to be undone and redone to make things complete.
Step 4: Supervise every task
Finally, at the end when all the material and tradesperson are on site, it’s really important to be there to supervise the tasks of the trades; this going along in ensuring quality since most tradespeople suffer from poor communication or in a hurry to get to the next job. This will reveal their actual ability and whether they know what you need for the job. Many a time, homeowners blame tradespeople and vice versa because of poor communication because homeowners are not around to supervise. It is a small investment in time, but it will certainly get what you want in your renovation.
Hope you find the article useful. Although most of it is common sense, it takes experience in ensuring the renovation is done with good quality, no time and on budget. For more information on the renovation, you can contact us at info@sunengineering.ca. Thank you.