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| Hoopz:
I understand your hesitancy about going to the next level. I'd get that list from her and start marking stuff out that isn't necessary right now (kitchen, bathroom and all the other stuff that she'll come up with). Just do the addition and basement to start. Look at those numbers and see if it fits your goals. And be cautious of how quickly a few thousand here and a couple of thousand there adds up to a lot of money! ;) |
| saint:
We nickle and dimed our basement renovation to the tune of an additional $20k, though we're very happy with the results. It can happen easily! Devil's advocate question. $100k, $150k.... What about demolishing the current house and building from scratch? |
| javeryh:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on September 16, 2010, 12:51:56 pm ---I understand your hesitancy about going to the next level. I'd get that list from her and start marking stuff out that isn't necessary right now (kitchen, bathroom and all the other stuff that she'll come up with). Just do the addition and basement to start. Look at those numbers and see if it fits your goals. And be cautious of how quickly a few thousand here and a couple of thousand there adds up to a lot of money! ;) --- End quote --- I think this is going to be our approach. We want to get a sense as to how much the basics would cost and then if we have a little more room in our budget we can add some stuff. My wife had a good idea that we should ask the architect to design the space in such a way that we get the basement and addition now but still have the ability to do the other stuff 5 or 10 years down the road when we can hopefully afford it. --- Quote from: saint on September 16, 2010, 01:21:37 pm ---We nickle and dimed our basement renovation to the tune of an additional $20k, though we're very happy with the results. It can happen easily! Devil's advocate question. $100k, $150k.... What about demolishing the current house and building from scratch? --- End quote --- I'm pretty sure that would cost about 1/2 a million at least. I am right outside NYC and everything is unbelievably expensive! That sure would be a fun project though - BYOH? ;D |
| Dexter:
We built an extension onto our existing house last year. Did up a basic plan using google sketchup and got guys in the order the work needed to be done. We probably built it for about half the price a contractor would have charged even without an architect. We were able to calculate the number of blocks needed, cable runs for the home cinema within the walls, position of internal walls to allow placement of existing appliances (i.e. chest freezer and tumble drier in new utility room), total area for planning laws, window and door sizes etc. Plus, unlike drawn plans, you can mess around with interal configurations for doors, walls, dividers, furniture and the like. If you haven't used sketchup before, its dead handy to learn (and free for personal use) |
| javeryh:
Wow that is sweet. The finished product looks just like your sketch-up model! Did you know how to use the program before this project? Was it a lot of extra work managing the project yourself? I work about 12 hours a day so I don't have the time other than the weekends. I've been trying to learn sketch-up but I am having a hard time since I have no experience with this stuff. I found a free online floor planner thing but it sucks too. I did manage to draw up what I think the finished basement area will be like but I have no idea how to divide up the space. I want a theater area, small bar with a sink and refrigerator and of course, a place for some arcade machines. Any ideas?? |
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