When our offer was accepted on the house we were told we could not start any repairs until we closed. There is always that small chance that something could come up, and if you start any work and can not close, then your money and time are lost.
So we made the best of our time by scouring craigslist. We made a list of what we needed and searched regularly for things. If something popped up and it was a good deal, we'd go out and buy it. Now we've got a garage AND a shed full of cabinets and applainces at my parents house just waiting to go up. So far we're UNDER budget for everything we'd planned to get, and a lot of these things we didn't plan for much. We still have a few more big items to buy, but we feel better knowing that we already have a lot of it ready to go. One thing with craigslist, is that you always run the risk of an item not working. And if thats the case, theres no returns - you just have to write off the loss. But its amazing the quality of some of the stuff that people sell.
We've also had amazing luck finding good stuff at the Habitat for Humanity store. I called a kitchen remodeler to find out if he was doing any remodel jobs and might be removing any usable stuff, and they said if they remodel a kitchen and take out useable cabinets, they donate it to HFH. So Fanette found that they can't use everything that's donated, and they sell a lot of it. We found the nearst HFH store and go there at least twice a week as the stock rotates a lot. So far we've gotten 2 complete sets of kitchen cabinets ($275 per kitchen) which were actually unused demos donated from a Lowes, and a ton of other stuff. Everything but the kitchen sink, no, wait we got that too.
So we made the best of our time by scouring craigslist. We made a list of what we needed and searched regularly for things. If something popped up and it was a good deal, we'd go out and buy it. Now we've got a garage AND a shed full of cabinets and applainces at my parents house just waiting to go up. So far we're UNDER budget for everything we'd planned to get, and a lot of these things we didn't plan for much. We still have a few more big items to buy, but we feel better knowing that we already have a lot of it ready to go. One thing with craigslist, is that you always run the risk of an item not working. And if thats the case, theres no returns - you just have to write off the loss. But its amazing the quality of some of the stuff that people sell.
We've also had amazing luck finding good stuff at the Habitat for Humanity store. I called a kitchen remodeler to find out if he was doing any remodel jobs and might be removing any usable stuff, and they said if they remodel a kitchen and take out useable cabinets, they donate it to HFH. So Fanette found that they can't use everything that's donated, and they sell a lot of it. We found the nearst HFH store and go there at least twice a week as the stock rotates a lot. So far we've gotten 2 complete sets of kitchen cabinets ($275 per kitchen) which were actually unused demos donated from a Lowes, and a ton of other stuff. Everything but the kitchen sink, no, wait we got that too.
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