Monthly d&r expenses

[peach]

How much do you spend in an average month on renovation materials, paint, home decor, etc.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Um. An average month is somewhere between $50-100.

This last year has actually averaged much higher at closer to $450/mo due to all the reno. I'm sure next year will be less painful. At least, I hope next year will be less painful.

ETA: That's just MY spending this year.  I have absolutely no idea how much R has spent on the house.  Probably about half that.  Dang.

[kaylie]

It's probably $500-$1,000 on average. I expect that will drop significantly as the house gets closer to being "done".

[boiler717]

Probably about $500/month on average, but usually in $2-3k bursts to do a room or something. Right now we are slowing down to pay for landscaping and living room furniture which will be crazy expensive.

[munkii]

This it's averaged about $1500/mo. 

I'm hoping this number drops drastically next year since we (knock on wood) don't need any new major appliances, septic-to-sewer conversion is a one-time thing, and we have a lot of stuff already that just needs to be hung/installed/whatever. 

[magdala]

This year has not been a big renovation year so we have averaged about $80 a month.

[pitterwoo]

Guessing $200-300

[lb2006]

Right now, too many thousands per month


Should be finishing with the HUGE expenses by end of January and then just finish work.  I predict we'll finally start to recover mid-2014

[mrsemilys]

We budget $100 but lately with making a new nursery it has been a bit more. While of course I wish we had a lot more to spend it does cause me to save up the home money for bigger projects and really reuse things I have (or get rid of them) and think through purchases so it's not all bad. That and the fact when the nursery is finished most all of our rooms are finished helps.

[msmerymac]

Over the last 2 months? $10k/month. I hope to God that happens rarely in the future!

[lb2006]

Dec 18, 2013 8:23:39 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Over the last 2 months? $10k/month. I hope to God that happens rarely in the future!

i'm in your boat

[thewop]

I can't remember the last time I spent $ on the house. So...$0? We're not doing any kind of reno/redo at the moment, though.

[Deleted]

I have a category in our budget for Decor/Organization and I allow between $50-$100 each month.

[demandypants]

because of the "new" house and long list of projects our yearly project budget is probably around 20k. Hopefully we will get through the worst of it and be able to slow ourselves down some. Just grateful to have my husbands healthy commission stream to fund said list and allow for us to save at the same time!

[msmerymac]

Dec 18, 2013 8:50:08 GMT -5 lb2006 said:

Dec 18, 2013 8:23:39 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Over the last 2 months? $10k/month. I hope to God that happens rarely in the future!

i'm in your boat

Sadly, we'll probably average $10k/year over the next 5-7 years or so, but at least it will be a little better...

[treedimensional]

Dec 17, 2013 19:55:07 GMT -5 KellyEasterbrook said:

This year, it's averaged $0.

This.

[Deleted]

I spent $800.00 on a new couch and $150.00 on a bed for Rubes in September. I just shelled out $600.00 on basement shelving as my Christmas gift.

That's been about it for the year. I've tried to take it easy on the random décor this year and have done well. There's not much I need as we don't have a lot going on.

I want some new cloth napkins and that's the first small house thing I've bought in quite some time.

[katie4253]

I've probably spent $100 over the last 2 years. Renting = way less desire to decorate.

The $100 has been on organization related stuff.

[Susie]

I'm not sure. It comes in big project fits & starts, that we pay for out of my quarterly bonuses. So it doesn't really have a budget line item.

[lightbulbsun]

It really depends on the project we're working on. At the beginning it was around $500/month, but now that we've been there a few years and aren't working on major renos it's more like $50-$100.

[TBM]

Dec 18, 2013 6:26:34 GMT -5 lb2006 said:

Right now, too many thousands per month


Should be finishing with the HUGE expenses by end of January and then just finish work.  I predict we'll finally start to recover mid-2014

This.  Almost exactly.