The video walks homeowners through the need for a kitchen remodel budget and demonstrates how to create one using HomeZada’s Projects dashboard and its Zada AI tool. It first explains why budgeting matters—determining investment size, financing options, evaluating contractor bids, and avoiding overspend. It then outlines the essential inputs: kitchen dimensions, desired product quality (high, medium, low), and whether the work will be DIY or contractor‑driven. The presenter shows how to start a new kitchen remodel project in HomeZada, select a low‑cost estimate, and let the platform auto‑populate line items for cabinets, countertops, appliances, etc. By engaging the Zada AI tool and entering the kitchen’s dimensions, the AI instantly calculates quantities, applies average low‑end unit prices, and produces a detailed budget (e.g., $27,817). The user can then “rebudget” by changing quality tiers or specifying premium items like GE Monogram appliances and high‑end granite, resulting in higher estimates ($39,000 and $56,000). The tool allows saving any baseline estimate, reviewing labor and overhead costs for contractor work, and emphasizes that users must still validate items or consult designers. The video ends with a call to visit homesota.com to try the application.
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Many homeowners want to remodel their kitchen, but they have no idea how much it's going to cost. Let's learn how to use advanced AI to budget for your kitchen remodel. First, let's talk about the key reasons why you need to actually budget for it. First is you want to determine your investment amount. Are you going to spend $20,000, $50,000, or $100,000 investment? How are you going to pay for it? Cash, home equity loan? Probably the most important thing is you really want to be in a position to evaluate the bids from your contractor before you go out and Talk to them. It's going to help you evaluate the bids and make sure you've got the right scope for what you want on your project. And last but not least, you're more likely not to overspend. And now the key ingredients to coming up with a realistic budget is having a list of items, knowing what the dimensions of your project are, knowing what products you want— high, mid, or low-end type products— and whether you're going to do it DIY or hire a contractor. So HomeZada is a digital home management platform that does lots of things, but we'll focus in on the projects piece and go to the projects dashboard. and click New Project here. And you can see HomeZada's got a gallery of about 50 common home improvement projects. So we're going to just scroll down and find the kitchen remodel and we're going to hit Create Project. Over on the left-hand side, you see it says Project Estimate. It's kind of like a swag where you're choosing high, medium, and low. Let's say you're budget conscious and you want to choose low and you want to use a contractor. You hit Create Project and bam, HomeZada instantly creates all of the typical items from the cabinets to the countertops to every single appliance. that you're going to need to select on your kitchen remodel. Right now, let's engage the Zada AI tool where at the top right you click on that and it's going to engage our AI application here. But notice the first thing it actually asks you. It says to provide an accurate budget, I need to know the dimensions. So you could go quickly measure your kitchen and you could say, oh, it's a 20 by 17 size. You click on that and now watch the magic happen. The Zada AI tool is taking the dimensions, taking your high, medium, and low estimate, basically making it a low estimate, and it's basically going through every single one of those predefined line items and it's calculating the quantities that are required, the average unit price at the low end, and it's coming up with a detailed budget for every single item on your kitchen remodel. Now just think about how long it would take you to do this if you were to use a standard search engine. You would have to search for every single one of these products. So there's probably 20 or 30 of them in a kitchen remodel. You would have to go out and, and calculate all of the math on how much, you know, square footage you're going to need for the floor tile and the backsplash. All of that information is automatically calculated for you with With the Zada AI tool, which makes budgeting for any remodel project like a kitchen remodel massively easier. Think how much time you've done this in literally probably less than 2 minutes. And once it's done with its results, it's going to basically format that in a table here, and you can see it's $27,817. But the benefits don't even stop there, right? We went with a standard size or low-end product. What if I said I want to rebudget with moderate-priced items? Literally, you're having a conversation with a kitchen remodel expert in the Zada AI tool, and it's basically going to rebudget every single one of those items, but perhaps a higher unit price because it's saying, hey, you want some moderate-quality materials, and you can see how Fantastic. Engaging in AI in a conversation gives you access to so much information, and in literally 3 to 4 minutes, you've got a massive amount of data to really help you understand how much it's going to cost. So let's let this finish for a second. Notice the Zada AI tool is now rebudgeted at a $39,000 kitchen remodel. And again, this is a never-ending process. You can make even line item changes. I want GE Monogram appliances and high-end granite slab countertops. It's going to do another rebudget again, now specifically applying those particular items. Let's let it finish. Now if you look at the Zada AI tool, you have a $56,000 budget because all of your appliances are GE Monogram and your countertops are high-end slabs. So you can basically go back and save any single one of these as a baseline. Maybe $39,000 is the one. Notice down here on the lower right-hand corner, you've got the little save icon. You hit save. It's going to save all that project, all those estimates at a single individual line item back to that same overall template. You click review your budget estimates, and it's actually even calculated down at the bottom because you're hiring a contractor, the labor and overhead. associated with this particular project. Now again, it's a budgeting tool. You still are responsible for validating all of these items and perhaps getting a designer, but look how much data you have literally at your fingertips to really help you create budgets for your remodel project, kitchen remodel project. If you want to learn more about how to use AI to budget for your kitchen remodel, just go to homesota.com where you can even sign up and try out our application.
