Before and After Home Renovations With Cost – Awesome Inspiration
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Looking for before and after home renovations with cost? Want to renovate your house? You’re in the right place.
Whether you’re guesstimating a project cost or already in the thick of a gut remodel, we’re here to help. Here is the lowdown of the cost of renovating our 100 year old house.
We’ll break things down by room, show a before and after, and give you an estimated total plus a summary of what we fixed.
Things to know that influence our renovation costs:
- Our home is a two family house in New Jersey. We’ve renovated from 2016 (at purchase) through today, 2023. Prices have changed significantly during the last 7 years. As in, the last time I bought a bucket of compound, I nearly hurled.
- Our second floor apartment is approximately 1,000 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 1 bath.
- Our first floor apartment is approximately 1,200 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, with a bonus basement room and 2nd bathroom.
- Our home was a foreclosed HUD house that we purchased with an FHA 203k Loan – meaning, it has been a LOT of work!
I hope for your sake that you have less to fix than we have over the years!
We also hope that by sharing our renovation costs, you’ll be better equipped to estimate your own.
Without further ado – enjoy our before and after home renovations – with cost.
Room: House Systems
Timeline
Oct. 2016 – January 2016
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$30,000 wrapped into our FHA 203k Loan
What We Fixed
- Replaced 2 boilers
- Replaced 2 hot water heaters
- Roof repair
- Side door staircase
- 6 basement windows replaced
- Lead paint abatement – foundation exterior, basement window trim
- 1st floor plumbing – shower and kitchen sink leaks
Room: Second Floor Kitchen
Timeline
January 2017 – May 2017
Before and After
Estimated Costs
TOTAL: $14,000
What We Fixed
- Gut renovation
- Kitchen cabinets & countertops
- Ceiling (gut, sheetrocked)
- Installed laminate flooring through apartment (1,000 square feet)
- Repainted entire apartment
- Electrical update – entire apartment, including sup-panel to second floor & high hats (hired)
- 3 new windows
- New appliances: fridge, stove, microwave
Room: Second Floor Bathroom
Timeline
January 2017 – May 2017
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$5,300
What We Fixed
- Complete gut!
- Replaced all plumbing (hired)
- New tub, toilet, vanity, sink
- Sheetrocked entire room
- Painted entire room
- New tile floor
- Installed built-in shelving
Room: 2nd Floor 3rd Bedroom + Rest of Apartment
Timeline
January 2017 – May 2017
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$3,400
What We Fixed
- Roof leak / gutter repair
- 2 new windows
- Electrical update
- Insulation / sheetrock – had to gut 3rd bedroom
- Paint throughout
Room: Hallway and Staircase
Timeline
April – June 2017
Before and After
Estimated Costs
Staircase, including its delivery and materials, plus new flooring: approx. $1,900
Helpers: forever indebted.
What We Fixed
- We ripped out the entire staircase. Yes, the whole thing.
- And then we put in a new one.
- We also replaced the hallway flooring
- New paint
- Installed chair rail & crown moulding
Read all about it at Our Amazing Old House Remodel – the Second floor, part 4
Room: Backyard
Timeline
over several summers, from 2018 – 2020OBefore and after
Estimated Costs
$2,500
What We Fixed
- Replaced shed
- Created garden bed
- Created two gardens along perimeter
- Created outdoor living room, complete with table planter
- Covered fence with screen
Room: Basement Rec Room
Timeline
Summer 2018
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$600
What We Fixed
- Re-painted
- Layout (attached to our basement bathroom remodel)
- More paint (metal pole)
- Installed access panel for clean-out
- New flooring (carpet tiles!)
Room: Basement Bathroom
Timeline
spring/summer 2018
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$5,300
What We Fixed
- Gut renovation (well, let’s be real, it didn’t exactly have walls in the first place…)
- Re-framed 1 wall to gain more space
- Installed stand up shower
- New plumbing incl. in floor
- Switched layout
- New vanity & toilet
- Sheetrock
- Paint
- New stack
Room: First Floor Kitchen
Timeline
October 2019 – June 2020
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$26,500
*Note: Some costs here include other rooms because we did the kitchen, bath, and a bedroom all at once.*
What We Fixed
Full gut renovation, including…
- Sheetrock ceiling and walls
- 2 windows replaced
- Add insulation
- New Fujitsu ductless split air conditioner
- Moved plumbing for kitchen sink, gas stove (hired)
- New cabinets & countertops
- New flooring – LVP
- Update electrical incl. 6 high hats (hired)
- Paint
- Re-framed / created new pantry within hallway wall + upper storage above recessed fridge
- New dishwasher & microwave
Room: First Floor Bathroom
Timeline
October 2019 – June 2020
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$6,500
What We Fixed
Full gut renovation, including…
- Replaced plumbing, turned shower head/tub to be on interior wall (hired)
- Replaced electrical (hired)
- Re-framed 1 wall
- Sheetrock ceiling & walls
- Add insulation
- New tiles
- New toilet, tub, shower door, vanity, sink
- Paint
- All electrical
Room: 1st Floor Primary / Master Bedroom Remodel
Timeline
October 2019 – August 2020
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$200 on top of costs wrapped into 1st floor kitchen & bath renovation
What We Fixed
Full gut renovation, including…
- Sheetrock
- Electrical
- Re-framed closet
- Add insulation
- Paint room and trim
Room: Front Exterior Curb Appeal
Timeline
September – November 2021
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$15,000
What We Fixed
- Replaced staircase
- Replaced side door staircase
- Replaced half the sidewalk
- Replaced leaky underground gutter
- Repaired siding
- Repaired & painted front door
- New mailboxes, flag holder
- New light
- New handrails
Room: 1st Floor Nursery Makeover
Timeline
Fall 2020
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$250
What We Fixed
- Repainted closet
- Repaired ceiling patches
- Covered steam pipe with sisal rope
- New radiator cover
- Repainted walls
Room: 1st Floor Living Room Makeover
Timeline
Spring 2022
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$320
What We Fixed
- Repaired ceiling patch
- Repainted radiator cover
- New sputnik chandelier
- Repainted ceiling, walls, trim
- Floating shelf installed
- Couch skins cover on couch
Room: 1st Floor 3rd Bedroom
Timeline
November 2022 – February 2023
Before and After
Estimated Costs
$3,200
What We Fixed
Full gut renovation, including…
- Reframe closet, add on upper storage
- Install insulation
- Update electrical
- New light fixture
- New exterior door
- New closet doors
- Paint, ½ room new trim
- Repaint radiator cover
- Wallpaper for accent wall
- Sisal rope around steam pipe
- A couple pieces of kid furniture
Before and After Home Renovations With Cost – Is It Worth It?
Big question – is it worth renovating a house?
We have concrete evidence to answer, yes.
Thanks to twice refinancing our home (once to get out of PMI following our 2nd floor renovation, and once to take advantage of the basement-bargain interest rates of 2020), we have proof in the pudding of our appraisals.
All totaled, our renovations have cost about $115,000.
And our home’s value has increased by almost $350,000.
So yes, we’ve spent a lot of money renovating our house.
And yes, we have enjoyed a skyrocketing real estate market since we bought our house in 2016.
All these powers combined mean that, lucky for us, the sweat equity is paying off in the value of our home. We are most grateful that our efforts seem to be worth it so far.
Also… we’re really, really tired. I think we’ll take a break this spring/summer and have a baby to relax for a while.
…LOL!
We hope these before and after home renovations (with cost) will help inform your home’s remodeling adventures. See you next time at OTF!
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