hiscopilot said:
WOW! I wish we had the money to turn our guest room or bonus room in basement into a REAL train room! Great job, I cant wait to follow the progress!
Hiscopilot;
The OL and I have an empty nest so we decided to go for the spare bedroom as the room to convert... We looked first at converting the Garage and when our estimates topped 5k we walked away from that idea fast.
As far as the expense of the conversion on the Spare Bedroom it really wasn't that bad I'd hazard to say that it came out to be between 2,250 and 2,300 dollars total.
Th lion's share of that was to have the old carpet torn up hauled away and the Pergo wood laminate flooring put in - all of which I had Lowe's do for us as I was unable to do the job due to no knowledge of how to do it, no proper tools to do it and some limitations that keep me from doing it.
The rest was cost for paint, tape, brushes, pans, paint sprayer, new face plates for plugs and light switches etc.
Outside of the flooring all the other labour was my own.
I did no new lighting and installed no valance (which may be a problem later but heck this is our first layout gotta leave something to build towards
).
So over all 2,250 was well worth it and we did save up the cost for almost a year before we started in June.
Start a penny jar and see where you can get away cutting acceptable corners and before you know it you're on to something. :thumb:
Thanks for your kind words and praise, means a lot to me!
Peace.
Coyote