Our number one rule when doing upgrades is to not charge anything on a credit card unless the store is offering 0% interest for 6 or 12 months. We put savings a side and paid for the tile in full and stored it in our garage until we could save up for the tile install.
I unfortunately did not take a before photo of the carpet and searched through my photos of my family.
We removed the carpet to save money on labor. We purchased the tile first for $656 at Floor & Decor and then had it installed 6 months later for $900. We had saved up the cash to pay the tile installers, this project was done in 2019.
Front Room & 2 Hallways Upgrades
Our family removed all the carpet to save on cost and we hired a family friend to install the tile. We picked out tile from Floor & Decor (cost $578) and stored it in our garage for 6 months until we saved up the money to have the tile floor installed. We paid $800 to have 700 square feet of tile installed, project was done in 2020.
Upgraded our Game room into a Bedroom
We upgraded our upstairs game room into a 5th bedroom, this project is something we did not want to take on by ourselves. So I found a contractor to build up the half wall into a full wall and added a door to close the room into a bedroom. In total we paid $3,000. The contractor was not prepared for the project, he told me it would take 3 days which turned into 4 weeks. A lot of the time we were waiting on was the supplies were taking a while to come in and things to be done in stages. Now that the wall is finished up, it's a 5th bedroom and has more privacy than before.