My desk is full of cartooning projects right now, so the next few days will probably not feature many posts from me (although I don’t know if Bean has any posts planned).
In the meanwhile, does anyone have a guesstimate of how much one would have to pay a contractor to turn a garage into a finished garage, suitable to be a family-TV-room type space, with sheetrock walls, electric outlets and the like? If you’ve got any clue at all, please leave a comment..
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depending on where you live and how fancy you want the final product to be, you should probably expect to pay $10-20k for a project like that. a friend of mine just gutted an attic storage space and put in new insulation, new inside walls, a wood floor, some custom cabinetry, and updated phone lines and outlets, etc., in the Philadelphia area for the upper end of that range, and that included working with a sloped roof and other tricks. given a large, square starting space, you may have some economizing available…
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I agree that 10K sounds about right, 20K if you were going with custom moldings, skylights, and fancy-pants lighting fixtures. However the cost that most of my former clients overlooked was the dwindling spiral that home improvements create naturally. All of a sudden you have a brand new room that is just gorgeous; and empty. Really, really empty. A simple perusal of the Sunday circular ads can cause former luxury items to become an absolute necessity. Yes we need that sectional couch, armoire, stereo surround sound. And my computer is so old, outdated, it keeps crashing…I’d get more work done, make more money with a new screamer…and these walls, they’re so…white. We need a new computer, and couch, and TV, and artwork and throw-rugs and paint to match the gold tones found in the turn-of-the-century vase we bought at the flea market, and, and, and, and…
To sum up Kd by way of Dirty Harry, “A person’s got to know their limitations.” ;)
As for me, I saw a house that would have needed that much work. Even though I could have had it for 80%-90% of what I paid for the place I have now, I thought better of buying it. My goal was to get into an enviroment that would create the shortest possible time-distance between a moving van pulling up the driveway and me settling down at the drawing table. Just something to bear in mind;In addition to being expensive, rennovations are a pain in the ass if you have to live there while they’re being done.
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