#82: How to Plan, Budget For, and Execute a Renovation Without Losing Your Mind

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We get A LOT of questions about how we handle our renovations, so today we're giving you all the details on how we plan, budget for a reno, and get things done! We also talk about the inevitable ups and downs and how we cope with them, plus our silly renovation tradition that we always do. Visit the show notes at abeautifulmess.com/podcast and email us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	If you're listening to the Beautiful Must Podcast this week, we're sharing how we plan
0:11.9	and budget for renovations and then execute them without losing our minds.
0:16.5	I'm sharing a funny renovation tradition that my husband and I always do with the worst
0:20.5	part of every renovation and we'll share how we weigh out whether it's worth it to make
0:24.9	bold design decisions in our spaces.
0:27.0	We'll also answer a listener question about if we'll ever do a TV show.
0:31.0	All right, so this week is going to be fun because I love deep diving into renovation
0:37.0	talk.
0:38.0	It's one of my favorite subjects and I have a lot of horror stories.
0:41.0	Yeah, well you've done a lot of renovations and that's how you get the good stories.
0:46.0	Right.
0:47.0	So, let's start off by teaching how to budget for renovation.
0:51.0	This is something that I get a lot of questions about.
0:54.0	It can be overwhelming but I think that I simplified it here.
0:58.0	Yeah, so it doesn't have to be so overwhelming.
1:01.0	So my friend Ting, he's been on our podcast before.
1:04.0	He mentored me on how to do a renovation and he helped me so much because there are so
1:09.2	many things that weren't intuitive to me that now it's like a part of the process set in
1:13.6	stone.
1:14.6	You know, he kind of like reworked my brain.
1:16.6	Yeah, so he's very experienced and he's also worked on a lot of different budgets which
1:21.3	I just kind of feel like so Ting's amazing, but I also feel like the lesson is it's really
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