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For Excel & Google Sheets

Budget the renovation the way it will actually be built.

Most renovation budgets are room-by-room wish lists. This one is structured the way an architect phases a project — by trade, in build order — because that's how contractors bid, schedule, and invoice. Room tags keep the kitchen-vs-bath answer one glance away, a contingency rides on top deliberately, and the dashboard answers the four questions that decide every renovation: what should it cost, what has it cost, whose quote wins, and what do I still owe?

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Built by a licensed architectExcel 2019+/365 & Google Sheets · pure formulas, no macrosSample project included · yours in minutes
Home Renovation Budget & Project Tracker cover

Rooms are how you live in a house.
Trades are how you build one.

The actual workbook

This is the dashboard itself — not a mockup.

As it opens in Excel or Google Sheets: planned budget with contingency and spent-to-date up top, the totals ribbon, by-phase and by-room breakdowns, money out the door, and your line-item pipeline by status.

Home Renovation Budget & Project Tracker — the actual workbook, full size
Shown with the included sample project (a kitchen + hall bath renovation). Overwrite the green cells with your own lines and everything recalculates instantly.
How it works

Estimate. Quote. Build. Reconcile.

Three working tabs feed one dashboard — set it up in an evening, then update it as invoices land.

01

List the work by phase

One row per line item with a room tag, a phase from the build-order dropdown, a status, and your estimate. Sixty rows ready to go.

02

Hold a real contingency

Set a contingency percentage once and the planned budget carries it on top of your estimate — because opened walls have opinions.

03

Compare contractor quotes

Log every quote per work package and mark your pick. The summary shows low, high, and exactly what choosing well saved you.

04

Enter actuals as invoices land

Variance appears the moment a line is marked Complete — actual minus estimate, red when over. In-progress lines wait politely.

05

Log every payment

Checks, cards, transfers — the payments log compares against actual costs, so 'what do we still owe?' always has one answer.

06

Read the whole project at a glance

Planned budget, spent to date, left vs budget, over/under on finished work, by-phase and by-room tables, and a status pipeline.

What's inside

Five tabs. Zero macros. Every number a live formula.

  • DashboardPlanned-budget and spent-to-date heroes, a six-figure totals ribbon, by-phase and by-room breakdowns, money-out-the-door block, and status chips.
  • BudgetThe 60-row register: item, room, phase, status, estimate, actual, and a variance that figures itself. Contingency % at the top in green.
  • Quotes + PaymentsA quote log with per-package low/high/saved-vs-high summary, and a 40-row payments log with phase and method dropdowns.
  • How to UseQuick start, every definition in plain language, why phases beat rooms, and the sheet-protection password.
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Home Renovation Budget & Project Tracker

One-time $16 for the budget that matches the invoices you'll actually receive — planned honestly, tracked to the dollar.

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Instant download · Personal-use license · A planning tool, not contractor pricing or professional advice.
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