My Home Remodel 9/27 Part II – We’ve Got Walls!

Exciting stuff! Probably by the next time we’re down in Austin the house will be done so it’s nice seeing the pictures in between. See you at OU/TX?

hey things are moving. but there is still a lot of work. at witch date you want to move in ?

It all looks very nice. Are you simply remodeling this house to live in or are you flipping it?

Remodeling to live in it….I love the location, and I won’t need more space for a long time.

great! i always like remodeling! it’s looking nice already.

Just curious for comparisons sake. In AZ if you do things yourself, you can get away with about $75.00 a foot for a decent remodel. If someone does it for you, your’re looking at $100.00 a foot for decent work, and more like $150.00 for nice stuff.

Is that about par with with Austin?

Hmm I just left a comment and it said I didn’t pass the math; very strange. Anyways I just wanted to say thanks for sharing the pics, I find it fascinating to see people building their homes and clearly others here do aswell.

What’s next, the windows?

Subscribed the feed, looking forward to more.

Barry –

The total cost of the remodel is $120k – the house is 3000s.f. We planned this out for a long time & really made sure we maximized everything – also, our labor is really cheap here (but I imagine it would be cheap in AZ, as well.)

Eric,
AZ is fairly cheap compared to other places. When I think about it I’ll go home an look in my Construction Price Guide. It lists all regions in the us and compares them to a mean.

eric,

looks like your project is moving along. looking forward to watching this to completion.. is that a loft or breezeway in the picture?

I’m going to swing by today & take some more pics – the whole job site is cleaned up & the texture is done. I just got back in town, so I’m not 100% sure, but I think they started laying tile…I’ll find out for sure today.

Klingerr – the house is 3 levels – the bottom floor has 2BR/1BA + the laundry room & a 2nd kitchen. The master/kitchen/living is on the main floor & what you see in the picture is the loft on the 3rd floor – the loft has a dining room, 2 lofts, & a wet bar.