Budget

There isn't much budget for this project. The total building budget is $40,000 for the bathhouse and the kitchen. It's apportioned $25,000 for the kitchen and $15,000 for the bathhouse. I'm hoping that we can save money by re-using the existing kitchen as the central structure for the bathhouse, perhaps bringing costs there down to about half the budgeted amount so we can use the saved money on the kitchen, bringing the budget for it up to about $$33,000.

Even so, this is an incredibly tight budget that will require using as much inexpensive material as possible. Using the wood from our land may help. Using recycled materials, things we scrounge at dumps, things that Keisha and I have stored over the years, and perhaps using straw bales for the walls may also help. Typical new construction today ranges from around $80/sf to over $200/sf. If we build a 1300 sf kitchen for $33,000 that's about $25/sf. I think this is doable. We just have to be very careful and not too picky about what we can get.