HOW TO RENOVATE A SMALL BATHROOM ON A BUDGET Please don’t be alarmed by my renovation sarcasm hidden in this post but it gets depressing as a homeowner to find so many problems with the biggest investment of your life. Even though we paid our mortgage off 5 years after we bought this house we put off updating the house because it was livable the way it was, until things started to happen. In our house we have a small bathroom which is a standard 4 piece vanity, toilet, bath and shower and a large master en-suite in need of updating for top resale value. Although the dollar signs just keep on rolling we’re learning how to avoid potential problems in the future. Coming from the UK I’m still learning about Canadian homes and one thing is for sure, there’s not a lot of love in some of them. Problems have developed in our small bathroom on the second-level thanks to some awesome home building techniques since the birth of our house just shy of 20 years ago. What was supposed to be a small bathroom renovation has turned into a small budget grab only because it’s what we […]
Prepare your budget for the renovation money monster
SAVE UP FOR HOME RENOVATIONS Things always get in the way whenever you’re planning to do renovations especially when you’re doing all the work yourself. Time is the biggest factor quickly followed by money. If you are planning on selling your home you know it’s very important to do your research to find out what renovations really are money well invested rather than wasted. If you put more money into your renovations than you really need to than you may not recoup the cash when it comes time to put that for sale sign on your front lawn. Talking to your real estate agent is a great start if this is the route you plan to take. Real Estate agent I have plenty of renovations in our house to get done even if we were planning to sell which we talk to our agent about yearly when we meet with her so we know if we are still on track with renovation ambitions. At the end of last year and the beginning of this year I told you that for this coming 12 months the plan around the house was to update the bathrooms. The upstairs […]
Reader question: When should you renovate your new home?
Renovate Your Home When It Is Right For You A fan sent me an email the other day and asked me the question, When should you renovate your new home? He said that him and his wife had just bought a home and they weren’t sure if they should renovate before they moved in or after they moved and wanted to know what we did when we bought our house. Home renovation checklist It was a question that I really didn’t have to think much about because we are in this position now. We did not renovate before we moved in and preferred to save the cash first before renovating. When we bought our home I created a checklist so I knew exactly what I needed to do although over the years it seems the list keeps growing. It was easier to read my list as I was going along rather than trying to remember in my head. Every smart planner will have a list so they have information to fall back on. There is no custom list here, you design your own. Grab a piece of paper and start making notes. I also wanted to have the opportunity to […]
