I am about to buy new house....

[Notka]

I have one which I really want to buy but there is some work what has to be done.
1- flooring- I was thinking to put carpets on the stairs and in the lounge only
but rest: kitchen/dining/hall some kind of wooden or... vinyl

please can you advice about it/ when i can but good quality and not so expensive.

I will have to also buy everything like beds/table (dining),I was thinking about blinds- wooden)

i am really lost- this is our first house and needs some work to be done as well- Ia am really stressed about it and I don't really know where to start with all costs, etc...

[Notka]

Ahhh- thanks in advance for yout opinions and help... :)

[purepurple]

I would say tackle one room at a time, instead of trying to do everything all at once.
Doing up houses is not cheap, it always costs much more than you thought it would.

[Notka]

thank you,

we've done budget -how much we think it will cost.

the Major thigs is just put carpets (stairs and lounge)/vinyl or wooden floor (hall, kitchentogether with dining)and paint the walls- three bedroom are done -just painting.

and bathroom which we would like to change.

[lalalonglegs]

In terms of flooring, if you want to have several rooms with the same flooring (ie, same colour carpet) it will be cheaper to have them done at the same time even if that means waiting a while. It will also mean that the carpet is from the same roll and therefore identical in each room - the colour can vary if it comes from different shipments and sometimes manufacturers just decide to stop producing a particular range which would be very annoying if it was the one that you had part-used in your home. Unless there is no flooring at all at the moment, I would just sit down and wait until you can afford the flooring you want - lots of the big carpet suppliers have sales on a great deal of the time but if you want it from somewhere else, there will probably be discounts in the summer/new year which are worth hanging on for.

I prefer wood to vinyl, you can some great deals on the internet if you shop around but bear in mind that fitting wooden floors is quite expensive (I haggled like mad and it still came to #13 sq/m when I had our floors laid a couple of years back).

In terms of furniture, this is really something you can build up slowly. If you don't have any, and no money left, get basics from freecycle or charity shops and replace as and when. A sofa with a good shape will look fine with a throw over it if the upholstery is a bit threadbare, a table that is the right size and shape but scratched can have a tablecloth over the top etc. There's no need to get everything perfect from the off.

[Notka]

i agree with you- thanks a lot :)

[GrendelsMum]

I think that a lot of people take a while to buy furniture when they move into a new house - we certainly did. We had a friend lend us a sofa, and some lovely neighbours lent us a camping table when they came round and saw we didn't have a table to eat off. We got a spare bed from freecycle, chairs off ebay, and gradually just built up furniture like that.

I agree that it costs more than you think it would (even paint is expensive!) and you should decorate rooms one at a time, but do all the matching floors at once.