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My bad for the not-so-specific question. As a first time apartment owner, I was looking for tips to furnish an 80 sqm apartment, with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom in Sydney. My budget is between $8000-$10000. Not sure if that could cover everything.
How much did you spend on furnitures and necessaries for your purchase of apartment/house?
For a small apartment (70 - 80 msq) owner, What is your recommended budget?
Cheers!
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My first purchase is an 80 sqm apartment, with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom in Sydney as a residential property, possibly will rent out 1 bedroom soon.
My budget is between $8000 - $10000, not sure if it could cover the cost of everything you'd need for a place to be liveable?
$100,000+ for completely new.
How many square meter apartment? Do you want quality or cheapest available.
$100,000?!? Surely you jest, or you have accidentally included an extra zero? Did you perhaps mean $10,000?
Furnitures and necessaries??
Well considering that a newly-bought place of residence contains more or less nothing, it's easy to rack up a bill of $100,000+.
$100,000 to furnish "… a 2 bedrooms apartment"?
Erm… OK, I'll assume this is a 'troll/joke' post at this point.
How much did you spend on furnitures and necessaries for your first purchase/rental of apartment/house?
By sharing my experiences in my previous comment, I've answered the OP's first question, which covers furnitures and necessities in purchased properties, rental properties, apartments and houses.
I never outlined a budget, nor did I advise the OP as to how much he or she should save up to furnish their property.
So at this stage, the joke's on you.
@KaptnKaos:
Ooooh, you've cunningly changed your entry while I was replying to the original version of it…
No matter.
In the suburbs where the median price is $1m+ its not unusual for just 1 lounge to cost $12k+.
The bigger the house and quality one requires, $100,000 is quite easily built up.
I don't see why it can't be $100,000.
Though not for most people.
"By sharing my experiences …"
I cannot see where you have 'shared your experiences' anywhere above.
I am not attempting to make any jokes here, but I do like a laugh. So please do tell; how would you spend 100k to furnish a 2-bedroom apartment?
I never said it cost me $100,000 to furnish and prepare a 2-bedroom apartment. Would you mind please linking me to where I made any reference to an apartment please?
And my experience is having spent that much on setting up a new place of residence from scratch. You need a lot more than just furniture in a house.
"I never said it cost me $100,000 to furnish and prepare a 2-bedroom apartment."
I never suggested that you did.
"Would you mind please linking me to where I made any reference to an apartment please?"
Yes I would 'mind', because it was the OP that was asking about an apartment; a point you seem to have missed?
"You need a lot more than just furniture in a house."
Of course that is true, but the OP specifically asked about the cost of furnishing their apartment. So call me crazy, but I assumed they were after a ball-park figure to buy furniture for it.
How much did you spend on furnitures and necessaries for your purchase of apartment/house?
Apartments aren't houses, and houses aren't apartments. The OP asked for both.
I never suggested that you did.
So you never suggested furnishing an apartment?
So please do tell; how would you spend 100k to furnish a 2-bedroom apartment?
Nope, I give up.
furnitures and necessaries
My expenses for a townhouse (3 bed, 1 study, 3 bathrooms)
Plumbing, Rinnai Infinity, plus new toilets and sinks for all bathrooms
$3500
Laminate flooring, upstairs and staircase
$2900
Furniture
2 Garden sheds - $800 courtesy of eBay Masters (might not count as furniture, but what the heck)
Misc IKEA furniture, drawers, tables and dressers - $700
New single bed and mattress - $400
second hand barstools from Gumtree - free
Office chairs — free
New kitchen Appliances - $400
New locks for sliding doors and main door - $300
Plus other bits and bobs like paint (it's a DIY job), repair materials like putty and glue, LED light globes, gardening stuff, tools, Ethernet cables etc. all adds to another $500 or so.
Grand total: It's over Nine Thousand.
Didn't have to buy much furniture because I was moving house.
*first property.
Thanks for replying, I was looking into IKEA as well, just curious about the quality of them after a few months to one year?
Thats pretty cheap for laminating though.
This is my first ever apartment, so I would have to start from scratch, like basically nothing to bring over to the new place.
Some are good, some are bad… Check for ikea hacks to give you some ideas on how to spice it up a bit.
People have furniture in their first rental? :o
I have like one rusty bed and a study desk, which I would definitely not bring them to the new place
Gumtree is your friend.
I had an old table I found on the side of the road, modified with some 2x4 pine beams to hold a printer.. Some ultra cheap stuff from fantastic. Bed came from my previous place.
grab stuff from gumtree.
garage sales.
auctions can be pretty good.
I obtained my current couch 8 years ago when I was looking for an electric mower. seller had a gumtree ad up. he told me to meet a storage unit complex. got there and we went into the unit. "here's the mower" he said. it was basically new and was his elderly mums, and she had just moved in to a home. there was a gorgeous 50's green lounge (that had been reupholstered about 5 years previously). I asked him about it and he said I could have it. I pointed to the 1940's free standing lamp and asked if he was selling that. he said I could take it as well.
so, virtually new electric ozito electric mower + free newly reupholstered couch and freestanding wooden 1950's lamp for $50.
To fix-up up everything, cost maybe $10k to $45k.
Depends, do you want to go for bargain quality to furnish the 'apartment', or good quality to decorate you 'home'.
Suggest better quality, not necessarily go for only bargains/deals.
if you get the wife/GF/Mistress involved. Double your initial budget.
All three of them is going to be a stretch.
Well my first home was just a hole in the ground with a sheet of tarpaulin for shelter. From memory the tarpaulin was free from the tip we lived next to.
Is that how its done in tassie?
I'd say we spent about 6k, bit larger than yours at 3 bedroom, separate dining / living. But, we went really cheap on everything and are just slowly upgrading stuff when we have money.. Eg, bought a $300 fridge off Gumtree, then a few years later upgraded to a $3k fridge with all the unnecessary crap like ice and water dispenser
Depends whether you want brand new furnishings or if you're OK with second hand stuff. I'm just furnishing my first house (3 bed, 1 bath) and have a mix of my old furnishings (single bed, TV, bedside lamp, book shelf), parent's furnishings and stuff (two seater sofa, mugs, cleaning bits and bobs), second hand stuff (coffee table from an antique shop), new energy efficient appliances (fridge, washing machine, vacuum cleaners), cheap stuff from Target (toaster, kettle, plates, pots, pans, cutlery, bin, bath mats and towels, etc) plus a lot of new furniture from IKEA too (queen bed frame, bedside tables, bedside lamps, TV bench, rugs, door mat, bluray shelving, 6 seater dining table set)…
I still need a queen mattress but so far have spent around 5000aud.
You're not a true Ozbargainer if you need to spend 10K aud to furnish a two bed apartment!
Biggest savings for me have been the cheap but sturdy IKEA furniture and the big ticket appliances thanks to Ozbargain deals.
I can't believe how expensive new queen mattresses are - I figured I should spend decent money on a new one, since I will be laying on that thing 8hrs a night and don't want to lay on second hand sweat etc (yuck!), but they are like 2-4K aud new! Desperately need an Ozbargain deal… :(
Edit: just a word of warning that IKEA uses European standards for bed frames and mattresses, which is different to Aussie bed frames and mattresses using Aussie standards - shocked that a queen size bed has different dimensions for different countries (even in Europe itself according to Wikipedia!).
I guess mine would reach 10k easily since I don't even have other necessities already (TV, fridge, etc). IKEA does sell mattresses, although I not sure about their quality.
2-4k seems to be a fancy price range for mattresses?
"I can't believe how expensive new queen mattresses are - I figured I should spend decent money on a new one, since I will be laying on that thing 8hrs a night and don't want to lay on second hand sweat etc (yuck!), but they are like 2-4K aud new! Desperately need an Ozbargain deal… :("
WTF, where are you shopping for a mattress at four thousand dollars !?
Just visit your local budget furniture store - you can pick up a full-pocket-spring mattress for around $700 from the likes of http://www.furnituregalore.com.au/product-category/bedroom/m…
First house was hand me downs mostly. I did shell out for a new fridge and microwave and not long after moving in a new bed with a good mattress. Friends had upgraded a couch so I got the old one, old dining table, old bed from a hand me down for the second bedroom. Made a coffee table and TV unit out of pallets/crates, built in a desk and shelves for the tiny study area.
Total was probably about $3k first up. $1500ish for fridge, microwave, $1k for bed and matching bedside. The house came with a washing machine and built in robe in the main bed. Probably $500 on other stuff like plates etc.
First property was a rental which was furnished (so I won't really count it for the purposes of this question), but we 'splashed out' and purchased our own bed and mattress. Total cost (from memory) was around $800
Second property (and where we still live) is mainly furnished by second hand stuff. Everything is either hand me downs from family, from op shops or from gumtree/facebook buy-swap-sell groups. Total cost would probably be around $1.5k, but that includes some paint/varnish etc where we have fixed up some items.
There's no need to spend thousands on this sort of thing.
I wouldn't buy a couch online though, it's nice to see how it feels to sit in first.
Your question is a bit too open-ended/vague to be answered properly. For example, you can't really lump 'first purchase' and 'rental' together, and it also depends on the size of the place (not just how many bedrooms it has), what city it is in, and who you are sharing it with; i.e. partner, or friend/s, or no one.
I suppose some peeps may supply an 'essay' describing their own personal experience, but I'm guessing not. If you could ask a more specific question, I reckon you will get much more informative answers.