Home Remodel

6 Smart Tips For Renovating Your Home On A Budget, According To Designers

Three Ways To Save Big Keep Existing Infrastructure One of the biggest ways to cut costs when renovating a house is to try to maintain as much of the infrastructure as possible. This starts with your purchasing decision—especially if you’re looking at fixer-uppers. “My biggest piece of advice would be to purchase a home with as many of your desired key infrastructure items already in place,” says Harris. “It's a lot more expensive to add a bedroom and bathroom by increasing the overall footprint of the home than to work within the existing footprint. It's even better if you can keep major spaces like bathrooms in their existing locations within that footprint.” If rethinking how you live in an existing home, consider ways to reduce adding on. “Reusing existing architectural elements can also reduce cost while being a more sustainable practice. Anything you can do to avoid adding onto a house because structural things require more trades, more expertise which means more money,” says H