Scenarios
The presets set every furniture group at once. Save a combination you like under your own name, or copy a share link: the link carries the whole scenario, so Lauren opens it with your exact picks in place.
The rest of the job
Flooring, painting, and the move, with the assumptions out in the open where you can change them.
Allowance for the unexpected
Basement flooring, vinyl, done yourselves
Painting and movers
Furniture, group by group
One pick per group. Quality is scored two ways: a tier for the retailer (one to five stars) and the material the piece is actually made from, where the product page says. A photo appears when the retailer lets its image load; the rest carry the retailer's name until the photo hunt fills them in.
What the numbers look like
Where the money goes, by category
Each category's share of the subtotal
Price against quality for every option (your picks are ringed)
The price range in each group, and where your pick sits
The three preset scenarios, and yours, priced
What a scenario buys you: total against average quality
Reading the scatter: a dot up and to the left is better value, more quality for less money. The dashed line is the value frontier. An option below it costs more than some other option of equal or better quality in the set, which makes it worth a second look. The tier runs from IKEA and Wayfair at about 2, through Costco and Sam's Club at 3 and Gardner White at 3.5, to West Elm, Pottery Barn, and LoveSac at 4.5 to 5. Options with no verified price (a premium mattress at West Elm or Pottery Barn, a Gardner White outdoor set, a Wayfair mattress) stay in the dropdowns at $0 and are left out of the graphs and presets.