Buy your own fixtures or supplies and YOU arrange for delivery.
If you have a general contractor, set up your own accounts and arrange for your own deliveries - lumber, concrete, bathroom/kitchen fixtures etc or what you can, deliver to the site yourself.. An honest "General" will not charge $ on top of materials cost and won't mind if you buy them yourself. Enough said.
Do you want a fireplace but don't want to pay the price for a masonary fireplace - around$10,000 to $15,000 or better, depending on style. Buy a free-standing fireplace (Regency is a great brand - we have one). Frame the structure, put concrete board on it, and apply faux stone or faux brick!
Yes - you CAN DO IT! The Regency fireplace is a Zero-Clearance fireplace with blowers. It can even be connected to your duct-work to heat your entire log home! It is also an Environmentally Safe fireplace in that is circulate the smoke and burns it with no emissions (it has a catalytic converter). This can be used in areas, such as Denver, that have "No-Burn" days - ON the No-burn days.
If you have a general contractor, set up your own accounts and arrange for your own deliveries -
Do you want a fireplace but don't want to pay the price for a masonary fireplace -
Yes -
Let's talk DOORS - lots of choices here. You might find antique doors at an antique store or at a salvage business you can find solid pine or oak doors for a fraction of the $$ of your local lumber supplier stores.
Some folks want double ovens and a cooktop - pretty SPENDY for sure. How about TWO stoves? You have 8 full working burners (no warmers) and 2 full size ovens for usually about HALF of the cost of double ovens and a cooktop. This is a pictures of a gas stove converted to propane and an electric stove. WHY? Ice storms! With the Regency fireplace and propane stove - you can heat and cook during any power outage. Not to mention, some folks prefer cooking certain dishes with different types of stoves.
And finally, find a construction materials auction in your neck of the woods. Here in Kansas City metro area, Greenwood, MO has a construction materials auction every couple of months or so and the date can be found in the newspaper. You can buy most anything there such as doors, black roof felt for the roof, windows, doors, tile, lumber, wiring, plumbing fixtures etc. One of our customers just bought black 30 weight roof felt for his roof for $2.50 a roll rather than about $20 a roll...so there ya go.