Here’s how to renovate your home on a budget yourself (even if you don’t have any DIY experience) 🔨 Keith and Sophie were in a pickle. Their basement was trashed from previous renters, but they didn’t have $30k to throw at it to pay a contractor to renovate it. So my mother-in-law and I decided to teach them how to DIY the renovation themselves, despite them having never used power tools before, with a budget of only $3k. And lemme tell you, the before pics are scary. Like really scary. But to truly appreciate how far this basement has come, the pics don’t even do it justice… There was bunny poop/vomit all over the carpets, a smell that wouldn’t go away, marks on the walls, trash everywhere… and yet here we are after all of that. And for only $3,095. Yup, that’s it. Now does this count the couch, tv, or decor? No obviously not - I didn’t include things they would take with them when they move out. But this DOES count every little screw, nail, piece of wood, etc. that will ...