Plenty of factors come into play when you’re creating your renovation budget. Learn how to manage costs room by room with this quick guide.
Kitchen
Many kitchen renovation budgets are blown by hidden costs. Building a new kitchen? You’ll likely need a new floor, but if your kitchen is open-plan, your new floor may need to stretch into your dining or living area too.
Other hidden costs may include adjusting cabinetry for out-of-square walls, needing to pour screed to level a floor slab, and moving plumbing and shoring up structural elements to withstand the hefty weight of stone or concrete benchtops.
Bathroom
One key way of capping the cost is to retain the layout of your current bathroom to avoid the expensive exercise of moving plumbing. You can limit the square meterage of tiles in your design by tiling part-way up your walls and using paint on the upper portion.
Bedroom
Joinery, such as wardrobes, shelving and other built-in elements like window seats or custom headboards, incurs some of the biggest invoices in bedroom redesigns. Bespoke joinery is well worth the investment, though you can make use of off-the-shelf cabinetry carcasses or substitute select materials.
Garden
A beautiful home with views that can appear lacklustre in contrast with the stunning interiors is often the result of investing too much indoors and not considering your outdoor features. To reduce the price of your garden makeover, consider buying young plants instead of mature specimens; substituting portions of hardscaping with materials such as gravel; and phasing your garden project in stages all help reduce the price of your garden makeover.
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