what order should you renovate home and garden?

[ASillyPhaseIAmGoingThrough]

I was thinking all but nearest to house bit of garden first.

Decorate room that will not be touched.

Loft conversion.

Knock one internal wall down, between two rooms. One of those rooms will have had stairs to loft in.

Remove old conservatory.

Extention.

Gravel front garden.

Does that sound about right?

I usually do all ripping out first and and knocking down walls extending etc. No decorating at all until the very end as dust and dirt travel and sometimes you need the whole space done to get a feel for colours etc. Gardens front or back last.

I'd do the house first, renovations make a lot of mess, get it done first IMO. Then the garden.

I need to terrece garden to put a storage shed in, so thought I would do end 3/4 of garden. Don't know what to do now about that.

Decorating all at end makes sence.

Are you living in it? If not do both extensions first after you have gutted it.

Living in. I was going to stay in a hotel when doing the kitchen and bathroom bit. I can't afford to rent.

That is a lot to do at once living in. You could take some of your budget out for a short term let as sometimes it is cheaper to be out as the builders can keep working into the evening and also they don't need to stop early to tidy up etc.

I will price up the cost of a short term let. It would meam the cost of two removals and storage too, which adds £££.

get the bedroom decent first, then at least you can retreat there with a mug of tea and a radio and close the door on the mess.

I say also buy a builders vac for the dust, early on.

its a bungalow, so one bedroom won't be touched. One at some point needs a chimney breast removing plastering and decoration for loft conversion above. Everything else is involved in extending and renovations. Apart from loft bit, I lived as a child through this, we didn't even do a night in a hotel.

Why do builders want my Hoover, don't they have their own tools?

the builders might clean up a bit, occasionally.

The vac is not for the builders to use. Hide yours, and hide the hose in a different place.

If you are living there, I think you will want to keep a lot of it more dust-free than the builders will consider necessary. The dust and grit will travel into parts of the house away from where they are working, even if you can find a way to make them close doors

If I did it again I'd start with the loft. Then you can retreat up to the top floor with a temporary kitchen etc while the rest of the house is being done. We couldn't afford to do it in that order because there was more urgent stuff to be done downstairs, but it's what I'd have done ideally. It will be hellishly dusty and depressing living in especially if you have young dcs - we managed it but did find a local holiday let to decamp to for a few nights during the absolute worst bits ( ie January, below freezing, no heating, running water or electricity...!) Garden definitely last on the list unless you have no access other than through the house.