Our Home Remodel Costs Part 2 – $1500 Living Room Makeover

I shared our $3000 Kitchen Remodel and now want to share part 2 of my breakdown of our home remodel costs. I am presenting today our living room. Oh, the living room. Once a room of drab faux (actually, so bad I should just say fake) dark wood paneling, 2 tiny windows, and oh the shag carpet – orange and lime green! I wish those photos hadn’t died with my old laptop, but they did. Under the shag carpet was a lovely avocado green linoleum tile. There was very little redeeming about that room.

My daughter still will say things like “remember when my house was old and the walls were brown and my bed was over there?” That’s right. The living room used to be one big bedroom. Sooo fab. I know you are jealous

Since I don’t have the before the shag carpet was ripped out and we moved in photos, I have to share this one

I have NO CLUE who that crazy lady in the photo is that snuck into my house and let her photo be taken by my then 2 year old daughter. The least she could’ve done was smile instead of making a stupid face and showing off her 6 months pregnant belly. Sheesh.

Here is hubby working on the room that we thought could not be redeemed. Look at that fabulous avocado flooring!!!

A peek at it during the during phase.

And here are the after photos then I will breakdown the costs

This is not how it looks today, decor and furniture-wise, but it gives you an idea of the french door across the one wall to outside and the shelf above it.

Okay, so that is pretty much the room as it is now. We made some changes like making the front door come in the living room as opposed to where it used to be in an awkward useless entry space that we now have as our dining area.

We replaced all the walls, windows, framing, electrical, doors, added a 4 panel french door, put down tile on the floors, painted and decorated, adding new fixtures and window treatments. It’s 100% DIY, so no labor costs.

Flooring – retail tile at Home Depot – $200

French Door – $250 on ebay, bought locally and picked up by us – $275 including gas to pick up

Walls & Ceiling – drywall and insulation retail at Home Depot – $175

Paint – retail at Sherwin-Williams – $30

Electrical – $100

Windows – 2 windows on clearance at Home Depot with the rest of the ones we bought for the house – $75

Trim and Baseboards and shelf above french door – retail at Home Depot – $200

Entry door and door to master bedroom – retail for entry door – $150, $10 on ebay for other white door to master – $160

Fixtures – retail at Home Depot – $100

Furnishings - don’t necessarily count as remodel costs but they were almost all either free, thrifted or hand-me-downs so we paid a total of about $100 for all of it, couch, chairs, wall unit, entryway and tables, rug, etc…

Total Cost - I’ll round to $1500 for extras that I am forgetting.

Not too shabby. And awfully cozy and totally OURS.

What do you think?