Room Makeover Budget Planner

It depends heavily on quality tier and room size, but a mid-range living room refresh commonly lands between $2,500 and $6,000, while a full furniture-from-scratch bedroom can run $3,000 to $8,000. Budget-friendly makeovers can come in well under $1,500 if you’re keeping existing large furniture and focusing on paint, lighting, and accessories.

Furniture typically eats up 40 to 55 percent of a room budget since it includes the biggest, most expensive pieces. Accessories and decor, including rugs, art, and textiles, usually land around 25 to 35 percent. Lighting and paint round out the rest, each in the 8 to 15 percent range. This calculator adjusts those defaults based on your room type and any category you choose to boost.

Yes, if you’re hiring painters, movers, or paying for furniture assembly and delivery. These costs are easy to forget when you’re focused on the fun parts of a makeover, and they can eat up 10 to 20 percent of a total budget. Turn on the labor reserve option above so it’s held back before the rest gets split.

As a rule of thumb, one gallon covers about 350 square feet per coat, and most walls need two coats for even color. For a typical room, total wall area runs roughly three times the floor area once you account for standard ceiling height. This calculator uses that same math against the room size you entered to estimate gallons needed.

Phase it instead of cutting corners. Buy the big furniture pieces first since they set the scale and function of the room, then add paint and lighting next, and let accessories trickle in over a few months. A room that fills in gradually with pieces you actually love almost always beats one furnished all at once under pressure.