We broke the budget
Remember a while ago when I was bragging about how well I was staying on track with our cabin renovation budget?? Well, I have shot that budget to shit and am laughing at myself all the way to the bank now. When we bought the little cabin in Alma, we knew it needed a lot of work which also meant a good chunk of change. We sat in a bar before putting in an offer and made a list of all the projects and all the estimated costs associated. To date, we have been sooo close on those numbers, except for one project, the deck. For some reason, we decided it would cost a cool 3k to build a new deck. Anyone want to guess how much it is actually going to cost? 5k, 6k?? WRONG! This deck is going to cost us around 19 thousand dollars when all is said and done (not including furniture I might add). That is actually about the same as the entire rehab has cost which seems really wild. this photo was taken before this man gave us the material quote, and before we hated him At first I w...