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Seems worth it, especially for something which is not currently an essential part of your living situation (right?).
If you have time, you can also save on materials, because understandably trades tend to work in the fastest, most efficient way possible.
Something worth considering though is the dynamics with your partner. To give the most extreme eg the adult sitting room friends I mentioned, the husband did pretty much everything on a major renovation. He is very handy. But that plus a full time job meant he did no childcare and spent effectively no time with the wife.
My OH wouldn't be happy with that. But other couples are much more chilled about time apart, or sole parenting.
The key thing is having the ability to carve out decent size chunks/blocks of time. You can't just do an hour an evening for 2yrs.
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Something worth considering though is the dynamics with your partner
The key thing is having the ability to carve out decent size chunks/blocks of time. You can't just do an hour an evening for 2yrs
This this this.
It's really hard to work on stuff like this when you're also doing a full-time job and living in the house that you're renovating.
At Cupcakes Towers we have managed it* but emotional labour is needed as well as physical; there have been some moments of real despair and frustration.
*When I say "it" I mean kitchen refurbishment, spare room refurbishment, plus various other bits and pieces.
If you can keep your tools and materials in the attic and shut the door at the end of each work shift that will help a lot - much of the stress for us was the fact that, in a flat, working on one room impacts all the other ones due to clutter etc.
Cupcakes
I have very little time but even less money, I feel doing things in stages/DIY could save around 20K.