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‘Property Brothers: Forever Home' Season 2 Episode 12 proves how a budget home renovation can still look like a million-dollar deal

Drew and Jonathan Scott do an overhaul of a worn-out living and dining area, kitchen, and basement in less than $125,000 and make it look like a million-dollar home.
UPDATED NOV 28, 2019

Home renovations can take a huge toll on your finances, especially if it’s an old house with conventional fixtures and need to be upgraded at every level, or at least the major one. Michelle and Chris have been living in the beautiful neighborhood of Etobicoke for almost 12 years, raised their two daughters, and love their space. However, with the house being quite dated, they feel a serious lack of space which stops them from hosting guests or having big gatherings. Also, a recent flood damaged the entire basement area, which would otherwise be a great place to hang out and have family time.

The Scott brothers bring their ingenuity to the couple’s lovely home and propose a 360-degree fix, which would make the house look brand new and contemporary enough to fit the taste of the millennial family. But here’s the catch. Typically, such kind of home improvements would cost nothing less than a six-figure.

On an average, the standard cost of full house renovations can reach up to $300,000, which could be too heavy on the home owner’s pockets. Considering a backflow preventer, reinforcement beams for open layout, complete replacement of kitchen fixtures, new fixtures in the basement, kitchen, living area, building a fireplace, and so on, the cost of the entire project could sky-rocket. But Drew and Jonathan came up with a project plan which would not only take lesser time but also be a couple of thousands lower than the owner’s budget. They started with creating an open layout for the main floor, so the living, dining, and kitchen appears like a single unit, only differentiated by the color play of fixtures and décor. This makes the floor look bigger and brighter with more natural light to spread, and also makes it cheaper to manage the construction. Then they reinforced the basement with backflow preventer to avoid water damages from future floods, added an extra beam to support the main floor, added new fixtures, entertainment options for the children, and also threw in a few personalized accents for aesthetics. Typically, just fixing the basement with all the above inclusions would easily go up to a six-figure estimate.

Here's what the family got $123,000 and six weeks after: 



 

The output of all the effort and smart budgeting proved to go above and beyond the expectations of Michelle, Chris, and their two daughters. The family now has a home which looks right out of a prime interior magazine but at a cost that fits a middle-class family’s pockets.

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