Texas travel / shameless Fixer Upper thread

emilybee
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:04:08 +0000

“H and I are renovating a small house at the moment. I keep showing him the extensive renovations they manage on those reasonable budgets. He keeps reminding me that’s it tv, not real life.”

I enjoy watching the show (and others like it) but I’m always questioning the cheap costs of all the renovations. My wee kichen alone was $50k ( for a mid range reno ) and we’ve put another $100k into our house and I still haven’t done my two bathrooms yet - which are on the agenda for 2017. Just two of my windows were $5k a piece.

My house isn’t even big - just a typical 3 bedroom 50’s ranch. The only add on has been a 400sq ft family room that kitchen & dining room open onto. Since we took down a load bearing wall to open it up, we had to have trusses put in and just that was $20k.

Just this week I had the bedrooms, halls and lvg room dining room floors all refinished - add another $2800 to the bill. They do look fab and worth every penny but the furniture & closets moving out was huge PITA. Can finally begin moving stuff in tonight.