Should I paint through new 'old' house or wait ?

[mumzof4x]

We're buying a new home and it's our dream forever home (better late than never we're both 50)
It's a big country cottage owned by a dear couple who have been there for 40 years. It's very dated and will need a lot of work but it's all cosmetic. Im talking avocado bathrooms / yellow kitchen and many many flowery carpets !
We have a small budget to do the kitchen and bathrooms but I'm just wondering if we can stretch to have someone paint the house through in a neutral colour (white or a light cream or similar) before we move in (will have a two week window) and put some plain carpet through the carpeted rooms? Or would it be better to do one room at a time and complete it ?
It's going to be a few years before the house is something near finished and I'm a bit overwhelmed tbh.
No idea where to start and I'm no good at design either.
I feel so lucky to have this problem but also with reducing my hours to enjoy the house will need to learn how to DIY I think !

If you can afford it, absolutely, but not if you're going to have to put in, for instance, very cheap carpet. In my experience, the 'stopgap' stuff often ends up being kept for years longer than anticipated.

Is the skirting an old fashioned brown varnish, for example, I wouldn’t slap paint on something like that until I’ve given it some thought. Paint doesn’t always adhere well to this so could have lots of chips on it in the future.
id maybe paint the lounge walls ,and woodwork if it’s nothing special and stop at that.

Thank you
The lounge is okay but yes woodwork and even the beams are all painted that sort of shiny yellow pine.

I'd rather do it room by room - agree with @JudgeJudging the stopgap stuff hangs around longer than desired. I'm in the middle of doing up a house - it's interesting to see how views change as you spend more time in it. Forever home - you'll want good insulation, windows and doors...think about lighting, sockets etc. Take your time.

And painters are expensive and the good ones have a long wait time. Around where we live - you are looking at around £1000/room - a waste of money just to go neutral.

£1000 a room ! Wow I'm feeling old and naive . I was thinking £300 a room.

Do it yourself.
Use zinsser-bin primer on the beams and woodwork and paint over it.
I'd keep the yellow kitchen and avocado bathroom but that's me.
Only replace things if you can't live with them.

Here you're looking at about £750 a room (East Mids) for walls and woodwork. Decorating is expensive.

What is on the walls?
If it just needs a new coat of paint, I'd take a week off work and do it myself. Decorating empty rooms is soooo much quicker than after you have filled them with furniture and stuff.
If it's wallpaper, I think I'd try and strip the main rooms you use.
Carpets - again, much easier before you move in, but if you are doing major work, they may need changing again. How much can you spend? And are you moving walls?