We're doing up our house for sale, we want the potential buyers to go "wow" and buy it so that we can move out. There's nothing wrong with the house or area but we just want to live somewhere else for our jobs.
Where we live is much cheaper than where we want to live so we've got to be careful with our budget. We don't want to bodge the house but we can't explode the budget either.
Our house is a 5 bed semi-detached Victorian house with lots of original features like stained glass windows, dado rails etc.
When you arrive in the house you see beautiful mosaic victorian tiles but that's only on half the hallway, the other half is carpeted (and minging) and I don't know what to do with it.
First option would be to source original tiles and replace carpet but after talking to a tiler he told me it would be mega bucks.
DH wants to clean the carpet but I'm not keen although I don't know what else to suggest.
From our hallway you can see the stairs, which are also carpeted with same tired carpet, then you see the kitchen at the end of the hallway tiled with expensive travertine and from the hallway you can also go in the living room which is going to be stained wood floor.
What can I do with that other half of hallway so that it still makes a lovely first impression when you come in without bankrupting us??