Posted by Sascha | Posted in Advice | Posted on 17-05-2010
Tags: budget, design, facelift, garden furniture, revamping your garden
[reblogged from cantstopthebleeding]
Getting your garden ‘just right’ can often be a very expensive business. The trouble is that many people do not know when to stop with their modifications. It is so easy to get carried away, especially if you keep visiting garden centres! These are a great place to get ideas, but they are renowned for being really expensive. Avoid buying any supplies from them unless it is absolutely necessary as you will often find items elsewhere for a fraction of the cost.
If you want to improve your garden, then settle on a budget before you even begin. If do this then you will know how much you have to play with and it will prevent you from turning it all into a ‘sprawling epic’ of a project!
By working to a strict budget you will be constantly aware of saving money whenever you can. For instance, if you are looking for some new garden furniture, then you will automatically price it up with several different suppliers. This may sound obvious to many people, but it is so easy to lose track of how much you spend. Revamping your garden is a large job, but it doesn’t have to be overly expensive.
We stuck to a budget of £500 when we did our garden and it just wasn’t enough!
It’s a really expensive job, but you don’t realise until you start.
Oh, God… it’s another one of those ‘common sense to 99 percent of the population’ posts!
Do people really have to write stuff like this????