1 Exterior paint averages $25-$40 a gallon, and a 3,000-square-foot home takes 15 or more gallons of paint, or $375-$600 just for the paint.
Construction-In-Process (CIP) Assets. A construction-in-process (CIP) asset is an asset you construct over a period of time. Create and maintain your CIP assets as you spend money for raw materials and labor to construct them. Since a CIP asset is not yet in use, it does not depreciate and is only in the corporate book.
Other Improvements are depreciable improvements made to a facility or to land that should be capitalized as a betterment if the improvement is at the capitalization threshold, or the expenditure increases the life or value of the asset by 25% of the original cost or life period.