How we renovate on a budget

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How we renovate on a budget

Someone dm’ed me on instagram and asked if I would share about how we have been able to renovate our home while pinching some pennies. My words…she didn’t actually say pinching pennies.

This is how we have done every house we have renovated, really. This is our fourth house and 3rd fixer upper. My husband is a five on the enneagram and so basically is always in fear that we need to save money and not spend anything, and as a result, we have learned to do a lot ourselves and tried to find ways to have high end design on a low-medium budget. For most of our lives, we have done this on a small ministry budget and we just are careful about how we spend money.

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An Alternative to a Drop Ceiling

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An Alternative to a Drop Ceiling

In our basement Airbnb, our electrician recommended we do a drop ceiling. One reason for us to do a drop ceiling was because we have not renovated our kitchen the floor above yet and may need to run plumbing and wiring.

But I really dislike typical drop ceilings and was not thrilled with this idea. I found an alternative option on pinterest and we created beautiful tray ceiling instead of the typical drop ceiling. This is work my husband would typically do, but since we were about to have a baby, we hired this out locally.

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