How do I do this for 10k? Budget DIY advice needed!!

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Moving house next month (hopefully).

New house needs kitchen ripping out and replacing, and has a huge family bathroom which we'd like to convert into a smaller bathroom and ensuite. We have a budget of 10k!!! Stepdad is a builder so can do some bits if we help with labour

Things that need doing

• old kitchen taking out (stepdad will do)
• some pipes rerouting and radiator pipes capping off
• new kitchen fitting (stepdad will do)
• creating a new ensuite and reconfiguring old bathroom
• decorating (stepdad & us)

Am I in cloud cuckoo land thinking I can do this for 10k?

I'm guessing a kitchen and 2 bathroom suites won't be cheap, also will need flooring, tiles etc

Any ideas on how to do it on a budget?

From my experience the biggest expense will be moving the plumbing stuff in the new bathrooms. The actual putting up of a new wall between them is cheap and easy and you can get tiles and suites relatively cheaply.
If you move nothing in the kitchen then the price will be just the cost of the units if your step dad will do any plastering and fitting.

It’s a bit difficult to say; there is such a broad spectrum of costs and quality of things like appliances, flooring and tiling. A tap can cost anything from £20 to in excess of £1000...
There are some appliance companies who specialise in seconds which could give you a better quality product for less money. The used kitchen company sells pre installed kitchens and appliances and might be a good option for you. Some are starting at £1500 with some appliances included. Ultimately it will be about priorities and patience and being flexible about the style and finish you want. Gumtree freecycle, eBay and rigorous financial planning will be key...

We had a kitchen recently priced with IKEA for about 3.5k all in including kitchen appliances- their dishwashers and ovens are actually meant to be good quality.

If budget is your main consideration do be aware it limits your choices in cabinets- the ones we went for we liked but they were also cheap, so the price difference was nearly a tenner per unit which adds up quickly. I was impressed with how reasonable the appliances are and their integrated dishwashers are apparently the best ones to get as they fit in the best.

You needn't get the appliances from the same place as the units, we got from diy kitchens but the appliances came from various places online. The oven was a"second" (small dent on back) so was cheaper, when it arrived it turned out it had been dropped or something and the bottom was also crumpled so we ended up with a further discount to match the more damaged ones.
Cooker hood i made my own from a fan, grease filter and a wall cupboard etc, not to save money particularly but to get a more powerful but quieter fan.
We did get fitters in to do the worktop, they said i hadn't done badly fitting the rest of the kitchen given i had no experience!

I would suggest that unless the kitchen appliances are faulty and drawers and cupboards are broken then not rushing into stripping the old one out until you have lived with it for a few months so that you can guage how the layout works for you.

If my sale goes ahead (fingers crossed) then I am planning on replacing bathroom & kitchen and decorate on 5k! But this is for TINY house. I'm single with no family nearby so might be ambitious.

My wild ideas are

1. . Replace kitchen unit cupboard doors from DIY kitchens, and buy some extra units for new integrated appliances - will get appliances elsewhere for cheapest poss price. Planning on getting wooden worktops from a specialist worktop place I saw online, and getting sinks/ taps elsewhere. Planning on only paying for someone to do workshop :s . The kitchen is only 2msqared!
2. Will do decorating myself, stripping wallpaper and using cheap whitish paint for time being - put accent walls ect later.
3. . I've seen nice looking bathroom suites on Victoria plumbing from a few hundred. Will pay someone to replace the suite in exactly the same place but no extras. (will do floor tiling later).
4. . Will do small space of spashback tiling in kitchen and bathroom myself. (eek!).
5. Sand and varnish wood floors in two 3m2 rooms. Replacing awful fitted carpets in bedrooms will probably wait!

I don't own any furniture either, so will be begged, borrowed and possibly stolen

Good luck!

@namechangeaskingprice I like your style!!! I need to start being a bit more savvy. Especially with appliances, tiling, flooring, taps etc

Also need to buy wardrobes as our current house has them all built in 🙈

I've found the difficulty is in getting tradesmen to do the small jobs, especially plumbers. The ones in my area won't get out of bed for less than a full bathroom renovation!

It's 6 years ago now but we only spent about 4k on our kitchen in total, which included taking down a wall and installing patio doors. Units were 2k from Ikea. Everything was DIY apart from the patio door, wiring and gas pipe rerouting.

Don't forget the cost of a skip (unless your local tip allows you to take lots - ours now charges £5 for each bag of rubble, 4 a day maximum), plus the day rate of a certified electrician (you'll need the certificates for when you sale and most won't certify what they haven't put in) - probably £125-200 a day but you probably only need a day if you can coordinate.

We did a kitchen a couple of years ago. Bought from DIY kitchens (fitter said better and cheaper than Howdens). I think the actual bits came to around 5k, but we didn’t choose the cheapest. For us, the coat was in paying a fitter.

We are currently getting two bathrooms sorted. The family bathroom (with separate bath & shower is costing around 3.5k for the bits. We have found what we want and are buting when we see good offers. We could buy cheaper if we weren’t going for a period look. Downstairs cloakroom with small shower is looking like about £1.8k for all the bits.

If you’re not having to pay any fitting costs and you are happy to compromise slightly on styles, you should just about do it.