WWYD? Give me inspiration!

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www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59576901.html

As above, what would you do to this property, with a budget of £150k to renovate ?

Would definitely be wanting to smash some walls downstairs-the utility room is bigger than the kitchen! Also I don’t like bathrooms downstairs so would be wanting to move that upstairs. Would want more open spaces downstairs as I would prefer that to tiny rooms

I'd look at other floorplans of houses sold on the same street and see what looks best and what layout best suits you. I would definitely be wanting to sort out the extension which has what was an external window in it.

1. Move bathroom into bedroom 3.

1. The "utility room" doesn't look (from the photo of rear of the house) like a brick construction - forgive me if I'm wrong. I would knock that down and the flat roof bathroom extension, and extend the kitchen across the back of the house with patio doors to the garden (or maybe keep the brick extension as a laundry room, downstairs loo...)

1. As you've lost bedroom 3 to the bathroom, I'd invest in a loft conversion to make it a three bedroom again

1. Given age and condition, I imagine you may need to budget for new boiler, full rewire, maybe a new roof...

Oh, and if I had £150k I'd set some of that aside to rent a place to live in so I didn't have to live in the building site

Is it actually worth spending £150k on? There will be a ceiling price for the street and type of house. Looking at other properties on the street a good number have moved the bathroom upstairs and have a 2 bed with a long kitchen downstairs. A couple have stayed at 3 bed and kept the downstairs bathroom.

The utility space looks like it needs knocking down, it’s taking natural light from the reception room and just looks odd.

TwoBlueFish makes a very good point. What's the going rate for an updated 2/3 bedroom terraced house in the area?

I wouldn’t spend £150k on that.

The most recent sold price on the street is for a nicer condition house with bed 3 as the bathroom and a kitchen extension. Waaaaaaaaay nicer than that and for only £375.

That house is overpriced and spending £150 won’t get you a nice space anyway and will take you above the ceiling price I expect.

Blimy that is the most unappealing house I’ve ever seen 😬

Wasn’t there something nicer to buy for that money?

It was actually £345k asking , I paid £310k. I have £150k to spend but obviously planning not too do that if I can help it. Prices will increase over time due to location, it's a pretty well placed property for the money.

£310 + £150 -= £460 and is still way above cealing price.

Since you already have it, I would do the following:

Re wire
Re plumb if needed
New boiler
See to the roof
Windows ok?
Take down that awful utility room construction
Put in a low to mid budget bathroom in bed 3
Put in a low to mid budget kitchen - establish how sound the bathroom extension is and either knock it down or extend kitchen into some of it and keep some of it as toilet and a small utility
Plaster, paint and floor
New doors, architrave and skirting

TBH given how renovation prices are heading I expect that would take best part of £80-£100

Both #69 and #16 have an extension at the back and sold recently for 372 and 398

Sorry I think you have over paid :-(

Like I said I'm not planning to spend £150k! Only paying costs for actual materials and no labouring /surveying bits and pieces so saving money there.

Planning to do a loft extension, extend floor 1 by a metre , move bathroom into bedroom 3.
Extend kitchen and knock through all that horrible utility bit. Put a toilet downstairs also.

Also pump in a toilet in the loft extension.

Op I would do what you suggested. Full modernisation, loft conversion, change bedroom3 into a bathroom, maybe using some of the space for new stairs, then a downstairs extension to make a large open plan kitchen diner with bi-fold doors. And sort the garden out. I think you probably paid about right given the location and market.

I know I am not from “darn sarf” but I am gobsmacked at the cost of that house. Here in the midlands you would get a 4 Bed Detached in a little hamlet that needed nothing doing to it. I can’t see how people can afford to buy property past Watford gap.

I think your plans sound good OP btw!