I just bought a 700 sf 1 bedroom condo and I would like to do remodeling on almost everything…kitchen, appliances, bathroom, floor, lighting, paints etc. I know the quality of materials I choose will be a big part of the remodeling costs, so is labour and mark up for the general contractor, but in general what’s a reasonable amount to spend not necessarily to make it super fancy, but better than average. $10K, $30K, $50K ??? Any personal experience to share?
I’m trying to budget how much money I need to do the following repair or changes to my house. Although we plan on doing most of the work ourselves. I am also interested in what it would cost to have someone else do this stuff as well. Just looking for an estimate of how much I should put aside. ( I realize it will be expensive) If anyone knows I would love to know individually. If you onl
1.Privacy fence about 1/2 of an acre of land
2. Sprinkler system for 1/2 acre of land
3. remove and close up 3 prexisting windows
4. Change out cabinets in kitchen, add about 6 feet of cabinets, change countertops, will have to only add plumbing to move dishwasher
5. replace 2 doors (leading outside)
6. lay 3/4 of an acre of new sod
7. install a above ground pool and jacuzzi with some decking
8. replace two bathroom cabinets
9. ceremic tile about 400 square feet
10. have plumbing run to move washer and dryer into garage
11. Put sliding glass doors in an area where a solid wall now exsist
If you only know one, that would be great too!
I’m moving into a small (NYC small) 1 bedroom basement apartment with 1 bathroom with a standing shower (no tub). The entire bathroom needs to be redone with ceramic tiles and the standing shower stall was previously installed incorrectly and needs to be totally replaced. In addition the apartment currently has nasty linoleum flooring and I am thinking ceramic tiles are the best option for new flooring since it can get quite humid. How much do you think this will cost (I know I need measurements…forthcoming…but I’m looking for a ballpark). Also is it wise to have someone like Home Depot come in and do all the tiling work? Any suggestions appreciated–I’m new to this!
I should add: this is a unique situation where I am friends with the building’s owner and worked out a deal where I am going to take care of renovations to the apartment. There is no issue of legality or anything like that.
When a hotel goes under renovation or out of business where can I buy things like bathroom vanity counter tops or tvs or desks that sort of thing
We have a unique 50 year old house that was built without a front door. We’d like to put a door in, and it’ll probably have to go in the kitchen (but where?), the kitchen is too small as it currently is, so we’re going to move the first floor bathroom somewhere else (but where?). We need help figuring out what our final floorplan should be, and how to do these reno’s in stages while still maintaining some order in a 5 family household.
Does anybody know where I might find (free) help in coming up with a new layout? Perhaps some school of designing genius’s that do this kind of thing as a learning exercise??? (I’m hoping).
We’ll be doing most of the actual work ourselves (we have friends and family that are carpenters and brick layers), so it’s not like we can get design help included as part of a renovation contract.
adding a bathroom. have never done this before. what are my first steps? do i need to hire someone to do blueprints, does this have to be approved by the city first, when do i get contractors to give me bids?
i’m starting to think about renovating my kitchen and bathrooms. any suggestions on sites to get idea? i’d love to look at pictures to get a sense of things. i’d love to get a list of different manufacturers for kitchen cabinets, bathroom tiles, etc…thanks!
So I’ve moved into my boyfriend’s recently, and he’s given me one of the 2 bathrooms to completely make over. It’s a pretty small bathroom; a walk-in shower, a toilet, a sink. That’s about it. I’ve become pretty zealous in all of my renovation decisions, and because I don’t have much money, I’m going to be doing this all by myself. So to make sure I don’t completely mess up the whole room, I figured I should ask a few people how to do things first! So here are the main two things I’ve found to have trouble with:
1.) There’s a towel bar right behind the toilet (a pretty inconvenient place for a towel bar if you ask me), and I want to remove it. It’s a plastic towel bar within a ceramic base, which is somehow connected to the dry wall. I’m guessing it’s glued with some sort of… glue… So how would I go about removing it, and then how would I go about repairing the most likely ripped dry wall? I also am having the same issue with my ceramic toilet paper holder, which is connected to the dry wall in front of my toilet (another strange location if you ask me). I’m guessing that this would be removed the same way as the towel rack? If not, please inform me!
And 2.) The interior to my walk-in shower is made up of some sort of fake marble sheeting. It’s not tiled; it’s just straight sheets of this fake marble-looking stuff. And I absolutely HATE it. There are 3 sheets of it, on the 3 walls surrounding the shower, and then the door is made of frosted glass. I can stand the frosted glass, but I want the bathroom to be pure white. So I have two options that I see: I could gut the shower and re-tile it. OR… I could save myself to trouble and paint it solid white. Now, see, I have no idea if this is a possibility. And if it IS!! how would I go about doing that? Like what kind of paint would I use? And if the painting idea is a shot in the dark, how can I remove these sheets of fake marble that are about 2 feet talller than me and about twice my weight? I have no idea how there attatched, might I add. So yeah…
Thank you so much for helping me with my little precidament!!!
My apartment renovations are grinding to a halt…the bathroom had no extraction fan and previous owners put acrylic paint over ceiling and walls. The substrate was enamel paint atop plaster walls/old plasterboard (1940s) ceiling. Its now flaking and when scraping, chipping through to the palster board in some places. Am very keen to egt the acrylic off ASAP. Its a real job every few days more flakes appear. Can I use a heat gun or will that be very bad for the plaster? Alternatively should I strip it back with some sort of chemical? Sanding is taking far too long, as the enamel wasn’t that smooth before they painted over it. Do I need to just scrape as much off as possible then resurface it with jointing compund then paint over the top again?
Any helpful suggestions would be most appreciated. Cal.
I have a jack-and-jill bathroom in my townhouse. They are divided into 3 parts in a L-shape. There are 2 sink areas and a bathtub/ toilet in the middle (with 2 doors to lead to the 2 sink areas in the two bedrooms). I think that this is a weird design. So I want to know if it’s possible to remdel one of the sink areas into a small bathroom (with a stand shower, small sink and toilet). When I purchased this house few years ago, the seller’s agent told me I can add a shower in the sink area (the previous owner thought about that too) without a permit. But I want to know if this is true? What if I want to make it into a small bathroom instead of just a stand shower (which is more convenient but still weird)? Also how much will it cost and must I apply for a permit for that (or notify the HOA also since it’s a townhouse)? Well I am really not sure how I should ask this since I know nothing about remodeling/ renovations. I just want to give it a try and see what you think. Thanks!
Well… I am also thinking… if it is too expensive/ impossible to add a bathroom/ shower, I wonder if what I can do to lock the jack-and-jill bathroom doors better? Now the doors of my bathroom can only be locked from INSIDE. That means when I have guests stay overnite, they can just go to my bedroom via the bathroom anytime. Also sometimes people just forgot to unlock the bathroom door on my side/ even forgot to lock the doors (cuz there’re 2!). I think it is really inconvenient! Does anyone have any ideas on this? I just think this whole design is so weird!