Home Renovation Budget & Materials
Rooms, Phases, One Truth
Home renovations sprawl. You start with a bathroom budget and end up tracking lumber, fixtures, contractor payments, and that extra trip to the hardware store. Money and materials blur together. You have receipts in a folder, a spreadsheet that stopped making sense in week two, and no clear answer to the question: how much did the kitchen actually cost?
The moment a renovation budget stops making sense
You are three weeks into the project. The contractor asks for another payment. You check the spreadsheet.
The numbers do not add up. You paid for materials separately. Some went to the bathroom, some to the kitchen. The spreadsheet has one column for everything.
You start a new tab. Then another. By month two, you have four tabs and no confidence in any of them.
The project finishes. Someone asks what it cost. You say a number. You are guessing.
How it's structured
Workspace Shape
What you track
Phases, rooms, payments, materials, labor costs
Structure
Parent project with child logs per room/phase, materials as items linked to where they were used
Fields
How you work with it
Create logs per room
- Each space has its own budget
Log expenses to rooms
- Spending tracked by location
Track materials as items
- Link lumber to multiple rooms
Log contractor payments
- Labor costs separate from materials