Renovating - in what order?

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We are about to buy our first home, but the one that we have seen and like needs everything doing - bathroom, kitchen, painting, carpets windows, fireplace.
What is a sensible way of tackling this? We would need to buy kitchen applicances, so kitchen first? Before or after windows?

We couldn't do it all in one go, so it would have to be a long term project. Also, there is potential to extend but again, would be not be immediately.

Any advice happily received!

Are you sure its all cosmetic. With that much work you should probably make sure your wiring is okay. If you end up having to do it later you will ruin all the decoration you've done.

The windows- as long as they are liveable can be done last.

Wiring is fine - just no money spent on the house for a long time

(Rewire, central heating), Windows, bathroom, kitchen, fireplace, decorating, carpets.

Have you checked the consumer box and electrics? I would start with electrics.

Het a heating engineer to check the boiler and heating system.

I might strip out the bathroom and kitchen and get the plumber and electrician to quote for works in for both rooms.

I would do the windows and therefore avoid disturbing the plaster and any tiling near the windows and on the windowsills in the kitchen and bathroom.

I'll tell you what we did.

Damp proof
Roof
Knocked down one wall and got living room plastered
Basic decoration - painting
New floor in kitchen plus appliances (fairly basic ones)
Windows (they were letting a lot of cold in) - after
More painting and decorating and carpeting - after 3 years
Extension with new kitchen - after 5 years of being there, sold/ gave away appliances and got new ones
Bathroom - after 5 years of being there

Sorry, we did windows after 1 year

Is kitchen not live-able for a few years. If you are going to extend in kitchen area, I would wait and do it all at once.

First do the stuff that will cause deterioration if it's not done soon. Roof is the obvious one, maybe window frames, maybe sorting out damp.

Then do the stuff that will cause disruption if you have to do it later (plumbing, electrics etc).

Then decorate, with the carpets last of all so they don't get paint dripped on them.

So worth getting a cheap oven for time being? We will only have a microwave, washing machine & fridge freezer when we move in. Not sure I could go a couple of years without an oven!

we bought a new oven which we will be putting in the new kitchen if we ever can afford one

otherwise agree with what they say. apparently you should live in the house for at least a year to make proper good decisions. we are finally doing the sitting room after 7months. nowhere near thoughts on the kitchen - luckily!!!

I would do any major or structural works first that could affect the whole house.

Then I would work top tO bottom, bathroom first, then decorate upstairs and down hall. I would save kitchen for last....the longer you live with the present kitchen layout, the more time to decide what points you do/don't like.

I've done my whole house and just saving up to do the kitchen, later this year maybe?

Yes defo worth getting a cheap oven for now.

Windows then central heating. Then start at the top of the house and work downwards.

Hard to say without having an enormous list of everything you're thinking of doing but having just finished a thirties house..... my few tips are: anything that needs ripping out, or, plastering in/on such as coving or reinstating original features that involve plaster, do first throughout the house. These things make everything disgustingly messy and you won't want to do plastering after laying a carpet. It sounds obvious to do the hardcore messy stuff first, but it is really easy to get swept up in the excitement and spend the first few weeks buying wallpaper! We did the children's bedroom first, completely, quickly with just odds and sods left like pictures to be hung and it was the safe-haven room for them and also anything else precious. Do this. Keep a crap room if you can, ours was what became the playroom. If it's that bad and will take that long then you need one or two focal points for keeping things away from tiny hands, somewhere you can lock and so that you don't have stuff that has no home yet, like things you buy for a room that's still being done etc. just floating around. Do the hall last! I did mine second from last because it was driving me nuts with it's ugliness but it was really silly of me I should have had more patience but hey, now it needs repainting and the NEW skirting has got chunks out of it. Oh yes, don't have expectations of builders to respect your property. They only care (maybe) about the thing that they themselves worked or are working on. They will do things like smash your new skirting with their ladders and not care. They will do things like chuck a load of broken tiles on your worktops and look at you puzzled when you shriek! God I've been holding onto this clearly! I would say if carpets are happening and you can get away with it, put them up last, they take very little time to lay and make no mess. Building dirt really and truly gets into every pore of a house. God ok before my head explodes, start from the farthest reaches of your house and work backwards, as you would with say, mopping. As you can probably tell from my supposedly helpful post, it can be quite stressfull....BUT absolutely wonderful to sit back and look at what you've created and it's all come together :-)

Also...sorry! What type of house, or the period?

Thank you all - it's a 1930's, but the front room has been knocked through to create one large room, but an extension on the back makes the kitchen L- shaped.
Definitely need to be in it for a whole to see how it all feels, but current plans may be to put the wall back, not have an l- shaped kitchen and create a study.....
Exciting!!