Anyone renovating a house bit by bit and want to share the pain?

[Bumblenut]

I’ll start. I thought - I’ll either buy a house at the top of my budget which needs no work, or I’ll buy a house less than my budget which needs work and have some cash left over.

I think you can see where I’m going with this. In my defence I needed to move in a hurry and there wasn’t much choice.

We’ve been here almost two years and is say I’m about half way through.

Have done:
Kitchen diner
Living room
Bedrooms

Still to do:
Downstairs loo
Bathroom
Showeroom
Playroom
Office
Outside (way down the list)

I got halfway through the hall last and then gave up. Does anyone else find they’ll have a blitz for a few weeks and then collapse for months?

Thinking of doing the downstairs loo or decorate playroom next, mainly as it seems cheapest.

When we moved we had an old conservatory to deal with. Not only did it look hideous but it was completely unusable.

It was in this style but very outdated: www.conservatoryonlineprices.co.uk/victorian-conservatory/

Of course we knew we would either be knocking it down or going for a replacement before we moved!

We will end up going for a replacement I think. Luckily we had factored this into the initial cost of moving / house buy.

The first step will be to replace the windows.