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Olivia Bellamy

Olivia Bellamy has spent over 10 years working in residential construction project management, giving her a front-row seat to where home budgets go wrong. Her job has always been in the middle, keeping projects on track and translating what builders say into what homeowners actually need to know. She started writing about home building costs because she got tired of seeing people go into major projects with no real sense of what things cost or why.

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Painting kitchen cabinets sounds easy until the doors come off, the drawers are stacked in the garage, and you realize

A fire pit area that looks planned and holds up over time does not have to cost a lot, and

I have sat across from enough homeowners in pre-construction meetings to know that the first real question is always: “So

Deck quotes can be confusing because the same project name can refer to very different work. A small pressure-treated platform

Finish Level Cost Per Sq Ft Best For Basic $25 to $50 Open family room, play area, simple office, storage

Professional epoxy garage floor cost runs $3 to $12 per square foot installed. For a 2-car garage, that puts the

Roof replacement cost runs between $8,000 and $22,000 for most US homeowners using asphalt shingles, and the final number almost

Basement water damage can cost you tens of thousands in repairs if you ignore it for too long. I’ve seen

House additions run from $1,500 for a fire pit area to $350,000 for a full second story. That range is

A sunroom addition costs between $22,000 and $75,000 for most US homeowners, with a national average around $47,000 as of

Are you tired of walking into a kitchen that feels stuck in another decade? I know how frustrating it is

Concrete cracks have a way of showing up at the worst time, right before a gathering or when the home

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