Okay folks, it's Money Time. We're still waiting on a couple of items to be delivered/installed (mainly curtain rods). We spent the day cleaning up, so we decided to sit down and review our expenses tonight.
Our original construction budget spreadsheet total was $25,895.
Our actual expenses were $26,008.81
HOWEVER: The second number includes everything we spent, including furnishings! PLUS - We have lots of leftover flooring. DH thinks he can get $1,000 for it. He has a black belt in Craigslist, so I expect he will. For now, I have ignored that possibility. Until the weather improves, those 25 boxes of flooring will continue to take up floorspace in our garage.
We are pleased as punch.
We had 119 separate expenses, and we can't be bothered with categorizing every single thing (some of the Home Depot receipts are very long), so we have an accurate total, but I'm not going to break it down. We went over on countertops by $500 and the cabinets were about $2000 more than we guesstimated, primarily because we kept adding cabinets. Happily, we had budgeted $2500 for windows, which we decided weren't needed.
Still to do: DH is going to make and install one more shelf in the kitchen from scrap materials. Then he will sand and stain the free dining table and chairs with materials we've already paid for. We'll do that while we wait for the things that are due to be delivered on Friday, then we'll move Bonus Kid in over the weekend, if it ever stops raining.
Oh, and the cool CB2 bar stools I scored on Craigslist for $80 each (Retail $299 each - what??) were too tall. Happily, DH was able to cut them down and they look great.
There will be more pictures soon-ish.
Thanks for coming along, we hope you enjoyed the ride. Hmmm, what can we do next?