The Conscious Salon
What we spent on our salon renovation
Have you ever faced the daunting task of renovating an outdated space? Join us on this week's Conscious Salon podcast, where we navigate the emotional highs and lows of a major salon transformation. From initial resistance to the final stunning reveal, witness the dynamic collaboration between Tess, Nic, and Hannah. Hannah’s interior design brilliance meets Tess’s meticulous tile selection and financial oversight. Expect strong opinions, humorous banter, and even a few surprises as the team works through the planning process. Plus, we discuss an innovative idea to offer exclusive Instagram content for our private clients, adding a unique twist to our services.
Lastly, brace yourself for an eye-opening financial review of the renovation project. Starting with an initial budget of $30,000 to $35,000, we break down costs from furniture expenses to the unexpectedly high price of rubbish removal. Despite not owning the building, the investment proves worthwhile, leading to increased client quality and satisfaction. Tune in for a detailed cost summary and hear how our commitment to creating a beautiful, functional space pays off.
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This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Have you ever faced the daunting task of renovating an outdated space? Join us on this week's Conscious Salon podcast, where we navigate the emotional highs and lows of a major salon transformation. From initial resistance to the final stunning reveal, witness the dynamic collaboration between Tess, Nic, and Hannah. Hannah’s interior design brilliance meets Tess’s meticulous tile selection and financial oversight. Expect strong opinions, humorous banter, and even a few surprises as the team works through the planning process. Plus, we discuss an innovative idea to offer exclusive Instagram content for our private clients, adding a unique twist to our services.
Lastly, brace yourself for an eye-opening financial review of the renovation project. Starting with an initial budget of $30,000 to $35,000, we break down costs from furniture expenses to the unexpectedly high price of rubbish removal. Despite not owning the building, the investment proves worthwhile, leading to increased client quality and satisfaction. Tune in for a detailed cost summary and hear how our commitment to creating a beautiful, functional space pays off.
To follow our journey:
Instagram @aheadhair_
@the_conscious_salon
This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Here at the Conscious Salon, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in which we stand today, the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Welcome to the Conscious Salon. Welcome back to the Conscious Salon podcast. Hi, tess, tess, hey nick, how's it going? I do have a lolly in my mouth. I should be. I just I'm just about to get rid of it. I mean, what would an episode be if it wasn't tess having a lolly? I actually feel like I gave like a really good break of eating food on the podcast last week. You ate on the podcast. Yeah, I said a break. Yeah, I reckon I've done like six months prior without anything no nibbles, no treats, no, nothing. Round of applause please produce just me and a water bottle. Yeah, very good, uh, but test, we are back. Another episode of the conscious on podcast. We're here to talk business, salons, clinics, the hair and beauty industry, lollies, all the things in between.
Speaker 1:Tess, we start off around here. We always kick start with the week. That was how's your week been? Yeah, my week. Well, we've had a bit of an emotional week in this house have we? Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, we lost one of our dogs, which is really sad. I say our, it's mixed, it's your dog too, but yeah, would you say Missy's mixed dog? Yeah, but no, no, sorry, so sorry. Can we just pause for one second? I've literally got a lolly stuck. I don't care if this goes in. Actually, leah, I've got like my teeth are stuck together. I just can't give what I'm wanting to give the people if my teeth are jumped, exactly, okay. Um, those that eat the lollies will understand. And no, it's not a red skin, but also, how much is everyone anyway? Um, started going on the tangent. I'll stop. No, we did have so.
Speaker 1:Um, mick has two dogs from 14 years ago when he bought them with his ex. Bootsy and Macy are little sissy girls. They're such beautiful dogs they are. But then, when we moved up here, the decision was made that it wasn't going to be fair to like move them back and forwards with such great distance between our house and Talia's mum's house and also just like putting them in a new environment. You know, they're quite old, they're senior girls now.
Speaker 1:And yeah, yeah, unfortunately Bootsy passed away quite quickly over the weekend, so that was, yeah, we've had a lot of tears in this household, a lot of emotions and a lot of um, yeah, it's so, it's awful, I think, because all of a sudden it was interesting. Like Mick said to me, I don't know what's worse if it was super sudden, like when we're texting during the week. You know, I don't know what's worse if it was super sudden or if I had a better chance to say goodbye and I thought about and I couldn't work out what would be harder. Hmm, I mean, that's the thing. I think a death is a death. There's always that stuff that you do where you say, oh, it's okay though, she was old, like she was 14, you know this, that and the other, but at the end of the day they're still not here. It's still sad and it's still a shock and a big loss. So, um, sweet dreams, sweet bootsy girl. Um, so sad. She was a beautiful little dog, wasn't she? We'll miss her very much. How are you? That's nice and morbid. I mean, my week's been a lot better than yours has.
Speaker 1:But pick us back up. Would you, pardon me, pick us back up. Would you kick us back up a notch? Yes, absolutely, pick us back up. I've brought everyone down, pick us, pick us, pick us back up. You definitely kick us back up, all right, um, look, my week that was is usually um, pretty stocks and reports and like, yeah, p and o's. Yeah, I was gonna mention actually I was gonna mention that, um, our next container is nearly ready to roll. But, in the spirit of picking everyone up, we've got a very exciting episode planned today and I'm a little bit nervous about rolling this out because of what the content is, but I'm very excited. Like you're giving me the eyebrows and I don't know what it is. Totally, tess has no idea. I'm with the audience waiting. Well, you'll know more in one second when you read out our hottie G questions.
Speaker 1:So, tess, without further ado, we run a little segment around here. What's it called? Hop Girl Hotline, hop Girl Hotline. So, for anyone new, we run a segment every week on our podcast. We put up a questions box on instagram and we ask you for your troubles, your woes, your business blues, whatever is keeping you up at night, and then we offer our advice around it. So test today.
Speaker 1:Today's listener question is um, it's more like a, a paragraph. Yep, uh, my salon is outdated, it's old and looks dirty, even when it's freshly clean. I really want to step up my salon experience and clientele, but I don't feel like I can charge what I want to because the experience isn't worth it. I know I need to renovate, but I'm so terrified to spend the money to do it. I know it's my mindset, but I need a pep talk from you. Ladies. Beautiful, you're in the right place.
Speaker 1:So, tess, when I was planning out some things for this episode and saw that Haka Holan question, I thought what a better opportunity to for us to sit down and debrief on what we spent on our renovation, which, oh good, this will be interesting, I don't know. So here's a little like side note for everyone. Nikki was telling me numbers that I knew weren't just from like doing quick summaries. I knew that they were wrong. I was like, yeah, 10 grand was spent on this renter, but then she'd also mimed the real number to people behind my back, which not so much fun for me. Then they'd turn around and she'd be like nothing. It's like cool, yes, and look, and you're not a details person? You're obviously not. I mean, we've renovated like at easter and we're now in what? Where are we? July, winter time? Yes, and I haven't followed it up, so this is not a, definitely not.
Speaker 1:I think this goes back to, though, again, like what we spoke about, last week's episode all the way before with um manifestation and where, like, I think it was the week before with um manifestation and where, like I think it was the week before that, the manifestation episode that we did recently around. Like I'm not a super detailed person, I always trust that it's going to be fine, it'll be worth it and it'll always work out and usually always does. Probably. Also, I'm not in charge of the finances or anything like that, because if I was, there would be none. Yes, uh, but we, when I was looking at this question, we really wanted to be able to help this person out. Obviously, and um, we're going to debrief that today, but we're also going to talk about why it's so important to take that step and actually commit to making change, because the reality is, it always feels scary.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter how established your business is. It doesn't matter how much money you have in the bank. It doesn't matter how you're sourcing your money to renovate. It doesn't matter how long or short your renovation is going to take. It is daunting for every single person that I know who has renovated irrespective of the circumstances.
Speaker 1:So one of the biggest things that I think would be useful for this person is understanding that if nothing changes, nothing changes. So you have to ask yourself if you don't do this renovation, what's the alternative? Yeah, you're just going to keep doing the same thing in the environment. An environment is such a big thing. You're going to keep doing the same thing with the same level or quality of clients, with the same level or quality of service, in the exact same environment forever until you make this change. And there has to be a point where, even if you feel scared, you have to trust in your own self to make a return on investment.
Speaker 1:So it's not about, like you know, investing x amount of money or handing over x amount of money or parting with x amount of money. You release that money knowing that full well, that it's going to come back to you, and that's what we did every step of our renovation. We knew, I mean, when I did actually add it all up, I was like, oh, this is a bit higher than what I thought it was, but, um, we like parted with that money knowing full well that it's coming straight back to us. Coincidentally, nikki did sign up with the credit cards points person coach at that time as well, so I think that might have been a little happy coincidence. Well, interestingly, when I was costing it all out, because I went through, like you know obviously roughly what our budget was, um, and you know budgets you can basically like add, add to or double, you know, depending on what size reno you're doing, but the budget that we had and going through it and I was like, oh, it's not too bad. And then I was like, oh, hang on, the amex arrived halfway through the reno and then I put a lot of things on that.
Speaker 1:So it's like monopoly money, that sort of stuff. It feels like it doesn't it. But then when you get the, the bill to pay, you're like, oh yeah, not so monopoly, I'm happy for you to do it like because we've got we've got a person that's like it's like a pt for um, how to like best use it. So that's good, you've learned a lot. So now you're the master of it absolutely. But we're going to do a little breakdown for you guys. So we feel really qualified, like in terms of um that question that that person said you know, feeling really comfortable to know that that's. I don't know if we feel really qualified. I think you feel very qualified. I don't know that I should be lumped into that. Um, well, we feel qualified to be able to to talk about this, feels qualified to talk about this? No, but we've just done a reno.
Speaker 1:We're just like as, like you know, we've said many times in salon, like I chose one thing in the salon which was no, but I just want to say I wanted to do this. Like, two years ago, you were very resistant. We can talk about this. You were very resistant. You don't like change. Yes, I literally don't even remember. You were just like no, no, no, no, no. Like, if you look at it this way, was this before or after the ceiling collapsed? For like the hundredth time in there? It was my reasons for not wanting to stay there. But also like, isn't this the time when we were wanting to buy, though? Yeah, but look, nothing was actually wrong with our space. I'm going to say that nothing was wrong with it. It was just it wasn't. It wasn't waterproof, it wasn't exactly what we were wanting it to be and we had kept flooding.
Speaker 1:We had in our heads that it was a like we, what we wanted to offer the experience and the level of experience that we wanted to offer as a mindful salon, we couldn't do in that space. Would you agree with that? Yes, so there, but there wasn't actually anything physically wrong. Like some people would come in and be like, oh, this salon's beautiful and I'm like seriously, whereas I looked at it and I was like, oh, it needs so much work. So what we wanted to do, like being a mindful salon, we really wanted put in a basin lounge, like a separate room with the basins in it, so it could be like a meditation cave and have like really beautiful sensory things and then obviously have just a more beautiful space, like a more aesthetic space. And this is one of the things like we work in the aesthetic industry. We work in an industry that's based around how people look and artistic creation. So it only makes sense one of the salon to be as hot as us. That was the brief. Now it is. But, um, we like it is really important to keep things fresh and we also wanted to. We asked our clients for a lot of feedback. So we put out to our clients. You know we want as much feedback as possible. What do you not like about your current salon experience? What could we do to make it 10 times better and what are the things that you feel are missing from your salon experience? We've got a lot of great feedback back from that, so let's talk about it.
Speaker 1:It took a while to get you over the line to do it. Once we got you over the line, then it became all about planning. I think it would have taken. I'm pretty easily led, let's be honest. I think I probably was like no, I don't want to do that. And then you said no, it'll be good. And I said all right, we'll do it. That's pretty much how it went. So once we've got you over the line, that sounded like a tough conversation. Nikki said can we do a renovation? I said no, and then she said please? And I said all right, that's pretty much how it went. That's why I can't remember any resistance, because I was like what's that? So that's all it takes to get me over.
Speaker 1:Once we'd exhausted ourselves with that um, tough conversation and debate, we went into planning, because I literally only ever put my foot down once about what the salon. I want to change the name of our salon test as I'm on to, it's not up for. And that's the only time I've said I've never, ever, ever not gone with what you wanted to do. I always say yes, yes, yes, do anything. Then when she talks about changing the name, I say no, yeah, not up for negotiation. There you go. It is not applicable on the name change, but otherwise you've got open slather. So, yes, anyway, we've just needed to um, clear my name. There sounds like I'm a resistant queen. I'm not. I'm quite easily led.
Speaker 1:You've always said that if the I know I think leaders came to collect me, I'd go down straight away. I think you would go so quickly into a cult, but I don't know if I would anymore, but I would have you. I would have, a couple years ago before, I like worked out how to think for myself and like, yeah, now, now you're much better. Whenever Nikki and I would go and see motivational speakers or like people that we might want to go and work with, I'd always walk out and be like, oh, are we signing? He'd be like no. I was like, oh, okay, no, I have to have like a really strong connection in that sense. Yeah, but back to our reno. Oh, yeah. So can we tell that my meds are wearing off now? Um, but we wouldn't be an episode if I haven't mentioned that's true. Um, you need to be like sponsored by riddell and by vance. I'd like to be actually, anyway. Uh, yes, back in the room, keep going. So, with the reno, obviously, like we got you over the line, fantastic. And then hannah and I were very excited because hannah, who is our team leader in the salon, she was very excited to do a renovation and she also used to be an interior designer, so she studied interior design. Um, and what better? Like who better to totally sit down and draw it all out? So we were very excited.
Speaker 1:Tess really didn't oversee the plans. You just sort of like. I was like happy because I was like, oh, I don't have to do anything. Amazing, it's like pretty much my brand. I'm like, oh, I don't want to think Tess is just there for vibe. Yeah, I was like I'm back to using the tiles. Yeah, you did, you chose the tiles. But also I really appreciate you because you were busy like making the money to pay for the renovation, totally, but that's what I'm good at doing. Like that's, that's a superpower of mine.
Speaker 1:But anything else, yeah, you asked I. I am such a which none of my clients don't like freak out, but I can't visualize anything Except hair. What do I do? Look at his face yeah, great, here's hoping Sniff. Love that idea, love that. You always say, yeah, let's have some fun. No, but then when some other ones, I'm like don't be ridiculous, we're not doing that. Oh yeah, I'm very quick at putting the car wash on. People come in. They're like tess, I'm thinking of bangs. Like absolutely not, I'm not doing that. They look terrible like jesus christ. Yeah, well, because it's like the first thing. Actually it's a very um meme today.
Speaker 1:That was like when men get pissed off, they like go and like choose violence or like shoot someone. When women get pissed off, we cut bangs. An assault on ourselves. Absolutely true. She was like we you know men go and punish other people whereas we punish ourselves. Exactly, jess is always like yeah, what's actually going on in your life? Have you broken up with someone? Yet we're not doing a bang anyway back in the room.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, didn't do too much overseeing. Hannah and nikki had it all under control. It's like beautiful, we had lots of meetings and jess would just walk past. She's like hey, guys and I was like coffee anyone. What can I do to help the situation? Did you know what it was going to look like beforehand? No, you kept explaining it to me.
Speaker 1:It didn't turn out the way that you hang on. There was one point where I thought are we gonna have like? Because there were parts where I felt like you two were getting a bit carried away and I was like I feel like they're gonna like install electronic, like doors, like austin power style, where it's gonna be like like open up. Oh, we should have, and I was like that sounds a bit chaotic. I will say, though, like every single we did a um, so on our all of our private clients have a close friends thing on instagram, like with us, so we do like. We put content out just to them, like a little subscription thing, I guess, um, but they get that as part of being private clients of ours.
Speaker 1:We did a salon tour the other day and I was like this salon is so well thought out, like every single teeny, tiny thing is thought about, and it's just like yes, I love it, it's great. Yeah, it's so good. You've done a beauty stunning. I love it. It's one of my dreams I had no part of it, but I said, oh sorry, it's got to stop disconnecting from the tiles, which is the main feature piece that people comment on.
Speaker 1:Prior to the table testing, you chose the tiles out of the ones that hannah had narrowed down, so presented three, three that I had to choose from, and I did. I chose the green Kit Kat fingers. So I remembered them and people love them. They sound disgusting when you say it like that, but yes, they are beautiful. Yeah, I think that's actually pretty accurate. They literally look like green Kit Kat fingers. They would be called Kit Kat fingers and they would be called like green tiles, but they're actually really beautiful. And and they would be called like green tiles, but they're actually really beautiful and they're stunning. Up near our cactus garden they're pretty stunning.
Speaker 1:So, for anyone who doesn't know, we have a brick and mortar business ahead, um, melbourne's first mindful salon. It's in east bentley, which is a little suburb of melbourne, and we have 130 square meter space. That's a pretty big space, um, and we completely gutted and redid our salon space in april this year. We closed for 16 days. I'm going to say 14 days, two and a half weeks. Yeah, 16 days. Yeah, it was 16 days. So there was 12 days between actually building it out and opening the doors again and there were 16 days all up because we had a couple of days of demolition so we completely got out of the space and redid it and it was, I believe, one of the best things that we ever did. Yeah, 100.
Speaker 1:Do you want to know what we spent? What do you think that we spent all up? So I actually talked about this with hannah the other day, because she also doesn't know what it cost. You've told me I think 70, what, what? When did I tell you that? No, the budget was 30, was it? Yeah, like I said to pete, I would ideally like, I would ideally like to spend, spend 30 to 35. No, no, no, no, 40. No, because wasn't, um, oh, my, wasn't so um, the builders bill like 30 on its own? No, okay, well, I'm gonna break it all down today. Actually, I'm gonna literally break the whole thing down. I thought it was gonna be like 90 000. So it sounds like I'm in for a really like fun day. You're in for a treat, then great, it's not over 90 000, yeah, so I originally I said between 30 and 35, was the hannah thought 70, yeah, between 30 and 35. And then I said to pete, we can stretch it to 40 if we absolutely have to. Yeah, are you ready? Yeah, great.
Speaker 1:So, um, and I will say as well, we, we planned this out. So basically, we were looking at Can I just manage expectations? Are you expecting me to have a big reaction? Because I probably won't. No, like you did with the like last week when you told the story about the, the virgin thing, have you sorted that out, by the way? Yeah, I rang them and they said there's a fee. And I just thought, fuck it, we'll just give it our best shot on the day. So that's what we're doing. So sorry, I'm so glad you can't have the reaction that you want to right now, but uh, let's break it down. So we're going to go through our uh, what we spend. I'm going to break it down piece by piece all of the bills, or just like the ones, all the bills, every bill separately, and then the whole one.
Speaker 1:So I will say as well we outsourced pretty much everything. The only thing that we did was paint. We also worked really bloody hard to save up for this and we've also paid some of it off for several, several months. So, um, it has. It was more money than what I thought we were going to be parting with initially, um, but if, looking back on it, it's worth every cent and the money has, like um has absolutely floated back to us, which is great. So we worked, we did save this, so we basically were looking to move.
Speaker 1:I just want to like be super transparent here. You cool if I do that. No, I'm not asking the non-details person. She's like what are we talking about, um? But we, um, we've been saving for we. We lost a lot of money, um, like during the pandemic, and then we have been saving since so that we can buy a commercial property and we decided to renovate and stay in this property renting um, and, yeah, that that's what we decided to do, so it was easier. How long it's taking her to get to the money? Come on, I feel really good about it. But you just said like 70 or 90. So I'm like cool, let's get into it, okay.
Speaker 1:So, tess, I want you to guess I did 90 000. We're gonna go piece by piece, so I'm gonna tell you guys what I know how much some of them cost, okay, oh, actually, I think I know what do you think? I actually thought 100. It was going to be like 90 grand, so maybe I don't know, I've somewhere picked that up in my brain. Yeah, that's good, that's good, I can manage expectations, great. But tell me what you think that we spent on furniture 10 grand, I know that to give there's way more than 10 grand, to give you some, no hang on, wait, I know. Just a salon furniture is 10 grand. It was more than that. Okay, well, you told me that. I wanted to hear, obviously, yes, again expectations. So I want to be clear.
Speaker 1:We got 15 000. We got all brand new furniture. So we got eight new station chairs. These were all from comfortel. Eight new station chairs. We're happy for some sponsorship there, comfort hell for also giving you. They did give us a sexy discount as well. So, yes, um, so yeah, eight new station chairs, three new basin lounges, but not the basin, so just the lounge attachment, just like the basin chair part. We kept our old basins. Um, and is that all we got from comfortfortel? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, and then it's like some little things. So the Comfortel bill was $11,678. And then we also had a custom table and some chairs and things like that. So our total for furniture for new furniture was $15,031. And 31. $15,031. Good, so it feels good. Um, we also had a really beautiful table, like custom table, made by clint. I'm gonna have to give him a shout out on here. Cjm designs one of our besties. Clint made this incredible table for us and that's where all of our clients sit when they want to like girl boss during their appointments.
Speaker 1:Um, this was one section that I actually felt like was higher than I anticipated it to be. Um, and this I reckon, like, looking through it, I just thought that it wouldn't have been as high, but this is what the cost was for rubbish removal, do you want to guess? Like tip fees and skips, two grand, no higher, six, three and a half, which I thought was higher than, like, what I expected. I was like, oh, we got a couple of skips, but I know, oh, my god, there were chock-a-block. And also some asshole came around and put some cement blocks in it which I really wanted to go and dong that on their head.
Speaker 1:It's not by weight, though, it's by skip. No, because pete was worried about the cement being in them. There you go, yeah, but um, yeah, and also, if that's something that you do by choice, stop it. I've done that bullshit. I swear I've done it to our neighbors. You are gross. That's so not cool. Sorry, guys love you and appreciate you. Not with cement, just with like a bag. Did you ask? Um no, in a way, okay, next, next category building materials. You have to say category is to give some like, category is to it. Building materials which is doesn't have the razzle-dazzle I was hoping so. It's paint.
Speaker 1:Bunning strips might attend, just like random stuff, but not sizzles from when people, some of the tradies would go and get a sausage sizzle budget blew out. That was 10. The coffee budget did too. No, we actually okay. Are we putting the canister on that someone smashed in the salon that no one owned up to and just left it for days? Yes, with sugar all over the floor? No, so like incidentals, miscellaneous, no, they weren't on there. But building materials. So this is just like little trips to budding, so not actual, like wood or timber and that sort of stuff and not paint. This is just little trips to buddings.
Speaker 1:What do you think? Um, 1500, no more, just say the number five grand, five, fucking sorry, I did most of those trips. No, pete young had a copy of. Well, I mean, are we also adding in his cactus like expenses as well? Yes, are they actually in the budget? Absolutely, they're in there.
Speaker 1:I want to add those lights. Yeah, oh, my god, I didn't add the lights. Yeah, well, that's really blown it out. It might be a ninety thousand dollar one in the end. Okay, I have to add an extra thousand dollars because those lights were like 900 or 600, I can't remember anyway. Um, so, five thousand and ten dollars and 73 cents was the building material. So they were all just the random trips to Bunnings. I'm adding as we go. I've got my final tally. Sorry, I don't think I've read the cents and stuff out. So I've got my final tally. Oh, that's right, I've rounded it up for the numbers that you said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the next one is tiling. So this includes tiles and labor. So we had the floors tiled in one room and then a few splashbacks tiled from precision tiling oh, sorry, precision bathrooms. I want to say something about precision. I don't know, but if you're looking for a tyler in melbourne, he is like he was so good to work with, he was so amazing. So if you need a good tyler in melbourne I think he just does reno's in general actually. So dm us and we'll dm you his details.
Speaker 1:He's a legend and was an absolute king and he had like quite a few fuck arounds as well because things were delayed. And our builder, hi steve you'll never listen to this our builder and dear friend of pete's, steve myers, he, um, he like told us the wrong amount to order of the dial. So, yeah, a lot of blame, like shifting the blame for that day. But, um, that was good, wasn't it? Yeah, that that was a bit of a tense workplace there, and then that was probably the only day, oh, except when not with me I came in, I was like Alicia, I'm so sorry, you've been stuffed around by these mongrels. And he was, he loved it. Alicia was a real gentleman about it. He was like I was like, oh, he must be really pissed off, but he was like a real gentleman about it. He was great, um, okay.
Speaker 1:So, uh, tiling and tiles. What do you think that came to? Six, whoa, good guess, five thousand nine,976.06. I am precise with the precision tiling. Look, I was involved in that process, so that's how I know you were Okay.
Speaker 1:So category is labor, so this is our building labor and materials, the air conditioner installation. So we've moved one aircon and got a new one, but it was already like, it was already like half done, so our aircon costs were actually quite small. Um, this was our electrician, uh, our plumber, our cactus garden install and like just basically any labor that we had. What do you think? The total was 10 grand, any labor, right? I don't know, mate, that's my guess. No, it was quite north of that. 20 grand, 28 000, 500. Well, that 90 grand is starting to look a lot closer. 28 000, was it? 587, and 50 cents. Very good, okay, so that was our highest. 8 000 at the moment. Huh, 58 000 at the moment. Yeah, um, that was actually our highest. Um, that was our highest thing. So they're all downhill from here, not one. Well, hang on, and I'm adding the grand as a character slides because he said you didn't add them. Yeah, grand, and I just realized I don't think I added that. Uh, I just looked at the sheet and the 18 sorry, 1810 dollars. That was for casey. That was just the cost of the unit, so I don't actually have his labor in there, but he was a real gentleman and like he's a maid as well, and he was. He gave us a solid deal. So, love you, casey. Um, and of course, this, the the advice. Did you put in pete's like, charge for the cactuses too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that's in there, good, um, oh, the cat, the archway the archway with the cactuses cost us about five thousand dollars. Yes, wait, do I add that now or not? No, no, no, no, that's all just worked into these costs. So category is um, this is plumbing materials. So this is quite a small one. I guess um 500 bucks, yes, 579.30. She's very good that, uh, some of the plumbing materials would have been tied up. I'll just do 600 in different equipments and things like that, like some of the budding strips as well. Yep, great, uh, so I just realized. So we are missing casey's labor and we are also missing those cactus lights, but that's okay. No, I put in the cactus lights.
Speaker 1:Final category. Category is yes, this is like miscellaneous things. So these are things like, um, our water filter. Oh, yeah, like, so we got like a water filter thing. These are things like the mirror that we purchased to make the mirrors, the mugs that I spent a thousand dollars on. The mugs are revived, though. They're beautiful, I love them.
Speaker 1:So little miscellaneous things. What are we thinking? Three grand, no four, no six, seven $6,937. And four cents $6,937.04. Thank you, okay. So, to summarize, we spent $15,031 on furniture, we spent $3,479 on rubbish removal, we spent $5,010 on just trips to Bunnings, we spent $5,977 on tiling, we spent $579.30 on plumbing materials, we spent $28,587.50 on labour hire and our building as well. We spent $6,938 on equipment and 50 cents on labor hire, um, and our building as well. Uh, we spent six thousand nine hundred and thirty eight dollars on equipment.
Speaker 1:So we also have chosen, um, just for tess's, like blood pressure I mean, actually she doesn't really care just for, like my, literally just. We've also chosen to not include our regular overheads that we had committed to, yeah, and our wages and everything like that, yeah, so sell on all of our team's wages while they were on annual leave for the closure period. My wage is pretty hefty, just went wage free for this period, believe me, but our rent that we pay every week, like obviously we're committed to that our rent, our overheads, our mentorships that we're in, all of our normal overheads that we pay every week, like obviously we're committed to that our rent, our overheads, our mentorships, that we're in our um or like all of our normal overheads that we pay, and then obviously our staff wages as well. So we have left that out of this.
Speaker 1:Yes, test the grand total, well, I mean. Well, it's under 70. So, like, hannah wasn't too far off. So I had 65 602 dollars and three cents. Yeah, we obviously had to add the cactus lights. I added that in, yes, and I just rounded up a fair bit, because that's just what I do, um, so I've got 66, that six, 66, 729, amazing 66, 7. I'm good with that and everything's paid off.
Speaker 1:Are we owing on anything? Yeah, no, we still have a little bit of work to do. So we still have our benches to do, so we could call it 70 at this point, probably. Oh, yeah, when we get them, yeah, we are getting them redone, but, yeah, we still do have a little bit of work to do, so, depending on what we have to do there.
Speaker 1:But look, I feel really good about that. A lot of people would feel really, um, would. A lot of people would think that it was the wrong thing to do when we don't own the building. However, we trust our return on investment. Yeah, I feel like we're going to own the building at some point. I feel really good about that and the salon looks so beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the difference between before we renovated and after, in terms of the difference of new clients and quality of clients that we're getting in, the clients that crawled out of the woodwork to come and get an appointment like who were desperate to get an appointment as soon as we reopened we have been so busy since we reopened with this, but I will say the thing that I feel is absolutely priceless and completely invaluable is the feeling of being in there like everything feels floaty, cohesive. We can actually deliver the experience that we've always wanted to. To deliver, yeah, this. The girls just love it. It gave us like a new lease on life. It really did. It was like it was a complete makeover for all of us and I think it was just such a. I truly think it's one of the best things we ever did. Um, as you said, we've made that money back very quickly. It's been such a incredible pivot for us. Yeah, and I feel like now we have a space that's reflective of what we do. Yes, and that's stunning, great test.
Speaker 1:We end every episode in gratitude. Yes, I am so grateful that we did this, like actually backed ourselves and knew that this would be the right thing, and I mean I say backed ourselves. I'm always backing you and that's a great choice. I'm so grateful that we were able to do it in the timeline that we did. I'm grateful for all of the hard work that went into it and, regardless of how much I might not have had a lot of preparation time with it, actually being in there each day and every day and like doing some pretty like hectic hours in there, especially like when the mirrors were going in and Pete and I were there until like 3am. You did a three o'clock, yeah, finish, yeah, and then back first thing at seven. It was, yeah, I feel so proud of that and grateful and like how privileged and like what an incredible experience that we have to be able to do this. So I'm really grateful for, um, yeah, just backing ourselves and not not ever being scared to. We always back ourselves. 100 and I'm really proud of that we do.
Speaker 1:What about you, mate?
Speaker 1:What are you grateful for?
Speaker 1:I really didn't tell me actually. No, I'm not. I'm grateful for that number too. I think that's a good number. I thought you know 30 grand, more than that. I feel really good about that. But I also think that if you had have told me this number three years ago, or even like two years ago, I would have been like, oh my god, that's totally now.
Speaker 1:So my gratitude is for the work that we've done on money mindset, like for me personally, for you to get out of avoidance with money and for me to get out of fear for money. Yeah, it makes this number. We're just like, I feel just unemotional. I just feel. All I feel is gratitude looking at that number. It's pretty amazing. So I feel really good about that. But that's come from like putting in so much effort on, you know, healing money mindset issues and and really feeling like truly connected to manifestation and feeling and knowing that we are literally abundant. We can create anything in our reality, um, and everything that we want is always available to us.
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