Last minute nerves about buying a 'do-er-upper'!

[mostlyrain]

We're 2 weeks off completion on a house. I'm starting to get cold feet due to the amount of work it needs. It's in the location we want to live in and love. We should never out grow the house but it needs everything doing to it....everything. It's liveable but we won't have much money to sort it out until we ditch the nursery bill (2-3yrs time). Are we mad?!?!

[PoshPenny]

It looks a lovely house, those bay windows will look a lot better with new Windows in anyway. Apart from the DPC, from the photos, it looks like you can work your way round that house at your own speed. I definitely wouldn't be getting cold feet about that house, I was thinking you were talking about somewhere that needed a new roof, rewire replumb and currently unfit for human habitation. That house is a long way from that.

[YelloDraw]

Wow beautiful house. And it's not like it 'needs' stuff doing straight away, you can go a room at a time.

[Cel982]

Oh wow, that's gorgeous! And I agree with everyone else; I think the vendors would be pretty upset to hear you describing that house as a doer-upper! That would be my dream, to move into somewhere with so much potential and completely liveable as it is, but needing redecoration so I didn't feel guilty about ripping out someone else's new-but-hideous finishes.

[Ewokewok]

OP that house is absolutely gorgeous! Buy it!

Those who are saying it isn't a doer upper, estate agents photos can be deceiving! Relatively small number of photos, none of bathrooms and obviously OP has been there several times.

We've done up two house now (replaced windows, extending, rewired, replumbed, redecorated top to bottom both) first time was exciting, second time was a bit rougher (DC were a bit older, we were basically living in one room and the bathrooms were baaaaaaad) and after that we said never again. So obviously next week we're taking on another buyer upper (most amount of work needing to date) - gluttons for punishment!

I will say this though OP, we have made lots of equity on our house each time but more importantly we've loved the homes we've made! Although I'm dreading the mess and disruption I can't wait to get started

Good luck! I am pea green with envy at that house, it is lush.

[albertcampionscat]

That's not a doer upper. This is a doer upper: www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44197788.html

[Bagina]

Really? .

[ThymeForTea]

OMG. Calling it a doer upper really takes the piss.
Actually I wonder if this is a joke.

[MavisGrind]

Beautiful house but not a doer upper.
A doer upper is when at least one bedroom ceiling falls down when you take the wood chip off.

AlbertCampionsCat that's a beautiful house (live your username too, nobody seems to have heard about AC anymore)

[Palomb]

If you want to show off about your new house he just bloody do it!

That is not a do'er upper but anyone's standards.

[Ewokewok]

Oh please. Stop roasting the OP. I bet you anything that house needs re-wiring, re-plumbing, all new carpets and OP has said it has rising damp. That's a reasonable amount of 'fixing' which needs doing.

Our house looked dated but fine on right move in fact it had old fashioned 2 pin plugs in some rooms and only one plug socket per room. There was extensive leaking from a shower which had destroyed the floor in one room, same thing in the kitchen under the washing machine. The windows looked great on face value but one of them just fell out when the builders gave it a little push. Looks can be deceiving!

It is beautiful and not a wreck but I bet will cost thousands to do up (sorry OP!)

[albertcampionscat]

Why thank you MavisGrind!

[JT05]

Just our sort of house Albert. Hiding I pad from DH in case he gets any ideas......

[Imnothungryforbreadandbutter]

l must live in a parallel universe.

That house might need fine tuning, but it is in no way a project