Could this e made liveable for £30k

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I’ve seen it from the outside.

The conservary is a very amateur job, looks like it’s aboutbto fall down.

I think it needs an extension to kitchen to make more use of space.

Estate agents have done the annoyin stretching of photosi it’s not as big in real life.

It was obv meant to be a 4 bed so I’ve no idea why they’ve stuck the awful conservatory on.

Location is fab though!

Is there hope within our budget?

Have you thought of using the existing garage and extending kitchen sideways into that?
Or looking at re jigging the layout...from looking at the floor plan it looks as though there is plenty of scope there.

Also what age are your children ? This is a grammar school area and whilst the closest large town has two super schools , the closest high school isn’t as desirable and the high school of choice is heavily oversubscribed .

..and it would cost nearer £350k where I live (SW England)

... the title suggests this house is “unliveable”... kitchen tiny???

Can someone direct me to flouncer’s corner please?

Christ, that’s loads of house for your money! Plus, totally liveable. I was expecting rats and mould and all all sorts from your description, op. The conservatory looks grand too.

Odd layout,if you take away the conservatory not one window looks out onto the garden area.

my parents live further down that road, 30k will go a good distance for renovations

It is a lovely house and one that IMV needs very little doing to it either. Or at best little by little, very habitable and nothing awful about any of it really apart from cosmetics initially which is a personal thing too.

I blame Pinterest personally lol.

Would cost £1,000, 000 plus where I live.

I’m very dubious about conservatories and can’t see how they add value. They are not rooms you can use for most of the year and you lose so much heat from the house. I got mine demolished. The test is going to view it at this time of year or winter. Bring a builder!

Walk down a hallway to the conservitory? Where is this hallway?
Also the kitchen is a good size.

Have passed this house on occasion and always thought it looked lovely! It's a bargain too.

Always wondered what Conservatories actually conserve! Great for drying the washing in the Winter if the orientation is good tho!

I think what she means is the ‘ family room ‘ has originally been a bedroom as its down the hall from the main reception rooms . In other words they stuck a conservatory onto the side of the house and renamed a bedroom . It’s a nice areato live in with a good local school. It’s also popular with those who can’t afford Hillsborough prices but want Hillsborough in their address 😜.

Conservatories .. you lose so much heat from the house. I don't see that, unless you have created a large opening in the house wall to get into the conservatory. Ours adds heat to the house - access is through the back door which without the conservatory would open straight to the outside, and during cooler months a thermostatically controlled system ensures warm air from the sun-heated conservatory is ducted into the rest of the house

So. The garden is at the side. Unless there's an industrial estate at the front, no aspect seems to be unpleasant, going by the aerial photo.

And bad conservatories are a given. We viewed 6 houses, last year (small search area) and 5 had conservatories. Had being apposite in one case as one vendor acknowledged that it was coming untied and ripped it out, after putting the house on the market. Our of the other 4, one was a fucking glorified migraine inducing greenhouse, 2 were completely shot and only one was a usable room.

You can make over conservatories without ripping them out - change the windows and increase the brickwork etc and they look like a normal room - it won't cost £30k

Kitchen is boring but livable

You can get a house that big for £160k?? misses point of thread

Jesus, for that space you'd be dropping about £1.2mil where I am [jealous]

Serious question though - if property is that cheap, will the £30k you spend (so you'd have spent £190k in total) add at least £30k of value to the house?

ha! 'Jealous' fail

Looking at the floor plan I’d knock the kitchen, utility and garage into one. That would save you extending. The conservatory is odd but it’s square footage.

Tbh it looks like a home OAPs buy to die in, but it’s dirt cheap.

It’s already more than ‘liveable’.
Be realistic- you are not going to get typhoid from living in it are you?

On the whole it’s cosmetic. I would look at changing some rooms uses. If you are wanting to extend then realistically you will need more than £30k.
But FFS you can certainly live in it while you save up/do it up room by room.
First world problems

You're not going to get an extension and kitchen rebuild for £30k, no.

Its a huge plot with great views, but the house is not really making use of them
Far too much of the land area is wasted on driveways & multiple parking areas
I would:

1. Remove walls between kitchen/utility/garage, replace garage door with window (? recycle the one from side of garage), make this into a huge kitchen/dining family room. Put in bifolds or similar at the back to open out onto that outdoor paved area, made into a patio with outdoor dining. Trim the hedges to maximise the view over fields.

1. Update main bathroom. En-suite just needs a mirrored cabinet over the sink to hide the clutter, and will look bigger without that chair

3.When finances allow, build new garage to the right of where it is now (facing house) Is there space for a double?
Set it back from the front of the house about the same amount as the lounge & hall are set forwards and make the roofline harmonious so it looks likely belongs there

1. When removing the conservatory, keep the base and brickwork to define a terrace area. Keep the french doors opening on to this, and when finances allow also put french doors in the wall of the master bedroom that faces the garden, and extend the terrace to there. You could put outdoor sofas on this terrace and step out of the bedrooms to have a coffee on the terrace overlooking the garden/kids playing

5 Keep the woodburning stove. When you have lived there a while and know the prevailing winds and light, build a sheltered semi-outdoor corner to put it in, near the outdoor dining or terrace seating to extend their usefulness in spring & autumn

Its probably just me, but I'd also swap the positions of the front door and the hall window so that the front door is at the front of the house. This would also allow space for flower beds, or whatever, to be put in across the front of the house on both sides extending to where the middle bit sits forward.
I think that would significantly improve the street appeal for not much cost, when finances allow.

I can't believe how cheap this is, you'd just about get a wreck of a flat in a rough area for that where I am. I would've said there's no way you'll get an extension, kitchen and bathroom plus redecorating your for 30k, but I would've did you couldn't buy a three bed bungalow in that condition for double the asking price, so frankly in your area you may well be able to.