You Can Do It, Be Your Own Contractor
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We know you can do this! Be your own contractor with our tips and hard won advice.
Two main ingredients to success as your own GC are confidence & communication.
Acting as your own general contractor definitely saves $$$.
We empower & teach you how to make the plan you need, put together a team of sub contractors, get what you want and end up with the house/project of your dreams.
Anita's crush helps if you are tackling the job of GC.
Two books on just this subject:
The Complete Guide to Building & Renovating
What Your Contractor Can't Tell You
Kelly's crush takes us to Paris to the Yves St. Laurent museum - a must visit when you are on the right bank. Have a preview HERE.
We answer a listener question with a favorite product, The Original Bees Wax. Get it - try it - uses it on just about everything like we do! See it HERE.
Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Who's the boss? |
| 0:09.2 | Hi, I'm Anita Joyce with Kelly Wilkins, and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks. |
| 0:14.5 | Episode 354, you can do it be your own general contractor. |
| 0:20.3 | And the show notes for today's episode can be found at Decorating Tips and Tricks |
| 0:23.4 | slash 354. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm going to say, you can do it. |
| 0:27.9 | You can. |
| 0:29.2 | Today's episode resonates with me so strongly. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm kind of like jumping up and down. |
| 0:33.9 | I can hardly sit in my seat because I want to shout from the rooftops that everyone can be their own general contractor. All you need is some knowledge, some |
| 0:45.5 | patience, do some investigating, and just have the confidence. So I hope we're going to give you |
| 0:52.0 | all of that today. And if you're in a position |
| 0:55.7 | to start a small project or even a large project like crazy I did and be your own general |
| 1:03.2 | contractor, I know you can do it. I need a knows you can do it too. Yes, I've definitely |
| 1:09.2 | done it on smaller projects, but when I had |
| 1:12.5 | my house built, when I had something big done, yeah, I did hire somebody. But, you know, |
| 1:19.0 | that was kind of based on, I think it's a personal decision and it's really kind of based on |
| 1:23.1 | not just whether or not you feel comfortable doing it, but how much time you have. And, you know, in certain cases, I felt like this is just something I don't have the time to put into because it is very time consuming. |
| 1:36.3 | So that's something that, you know, we're going to talk about is what it takes to do this. |
| 1:40.4 | And time is is something that will be required. |
| 1:47.7 | For sure. No doubt about it. So when you're contemplating whether or not you need to hire a general contractor for any size project, |
| 1:52.5 | whether it's a small bathroom remodel or if it's tackling a 150-year-old house remodel, |
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