House Budget / Price List
After writing “THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUILDING” blog post, I received some questions. I will answer your questions but will break it up by specific questions. In this blog post, I want to answer a popular question which was “what are all the items to bid out or get pricing on” if building a home.
Here’s a breakdown of items on our current price sheet. Hope this helps! Make sure you have material and labor accounted for.
You can download the excel sheet I created below:
Once you receive the bids, this will determine if you’re on the right track or if you are over budget. You may have to tweak the floor plan, finish the basement at a later date, adjust product choices, determine what you can do yourself to save money, etc. Blaine (my husband) ended up doing the insulation, painting, working on the front stoop, did the site clean up, and put together our IKEA bathroom vanities.
It’s so important to stay on budget. With our previous house, Nick (my bro-in-law) and Blaine were constantly looking at this sheet to make sure we were on track. If certain things ended up costing more than anticipated, we had to make adjustments. Blaine and I will be doing the same thing this time.
If you have questions on this or other questions as far as building a house, please drop them in the comments. I’m going to try sharing info every day with you all since we are going through this building process AGAIN!
