Home renovations are never cheap. So what happens when your house is a 775-room palace that was originally built in 1703? Yeah, you can expect your renovation budget to be legendary. That’s what The Queen of England is discovering — she’s getting ready to update Buckingham Palace, and her budget is clocking in at almost $500 million. I mean, think about what the lightbulb budget alone must be at the Palace!

Apparently, Buckingham Palace has been kind of falling apart for years and is in desperate need of some modern upgrades. Apparently it’s infested with mice, the walls and roofs were made with asbestos, many of the pipes are lined with lead, Palace residents are in danger of falling masonry, the electric system hasn’t been updated since 1949, and buckets have to be put out when it rains to catch water from all of the leaks. It’s in worse condition than my first apartment out of college!