I thought I would share my DIY reno of my PPOR on here. This will be a long thread, the reno's should take about 1-2 years. I'm finally done with renovating investment properties for now and am concentrating all my attention on my PPOR.
The reno involves:
-lifting the house 4.5m and building in underneath, and doing an extension out the back.
-The project involves completely renovating head to toe the existing workers cottage and then adding 5 new bedrooms, 2 new kitchens, a laundry, 3 new bathrooms, a games room/bar/theatre room, and a full wrap around deck. The house will go from 100m2 to 400m2 after the work is done.
Budget is $200 000. I will be doing 90% of the work myself.
Plans are currently in with the certifier, next step is raising the house (will be in about 1 month).
I've already been working on the house for a while now. Here's a video of the journey so far from our first inspection of the house, to it's current state today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVwJMLP8Fw&feature=youtu.be
You'll notice some things in the entrance room, that's my stockpile of items to fit the house out with. Also 95% of the work so far has been DIY by me.
Anyway I'll keep you all updated. This is going to be a big one...
The reno involves:
-lifting the house 4.5m and building in underneath, and doing an extension out the back.
-The project involves completely renovating head to toe the existing workers cottage and then adding 5 new bedrooms, 2 new kitchens, a laundry, 3 new bathrooms, a games room/bar/theatre room, and a full wrap around deck. The house will go from 100m2 to 400m2 after the work is done.
Budget is $200 000. I will be doing 90% of the work myself.
Plans are currently in with the certifier, next step is raising the house (will be in about 1 month).
I've already been working on the house for a while now. Here's a video of the journey so far from our first inspection of the house, to it's current state today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVwJMLP8Fw&feature=youtu.be
You'll notice some things in the entrance room, that's my stockpile of items to fit the house out with. Also 95% of the work so far has been DIY by me.
Anyway I'll keep you all updated. This is going to be a big one...