How much to put this house up to date?

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I think the house is worth it (just because of the sheer size) but DH thinks it needs tons of money and isn't ready to move in.

There's nothing you can't live with unless it needs rewiring.

Things I do would be to strip down and/or paint the wood panelling and repaint the walls The kitchen cupboard doors could be replaced or stripped down and painted,

Longer term I'd see if windows could be added to the wall on the left in what looks like the lean to/would be conservatory

I'd be surprised if it didnt need new electrics/boiler/radiators - which may mean new ceilings/plastering - certainly not great to live through that with decent musical instruments
the dining room looks odd is that a lean to? -nothing looks really urgent if you're not to fussy but if you have a lot of stuff and DC it will be paniful moving stuff around...Dave your pictures look great but where is all your stuff!

Looking again at the floor plan this time I would say there would be some minor structural alterations you’d want to make to help it flow better

There’s also a multitude of what appears to be WV’s - these will all need updating or removing.

Potentially new radiators as they all look in need of repayment ideally.

There are polystyrene looking tiles on the main bedroom ceiling

Could be hiding a multitude of issues and possibly asbestos

The kitchen ceiling is peeling so if that’s lining paper it’s likely it will need reboarding and plastering

The light fittings the light need replacing

@averythinline haha! Our stuff is everywhere..loads dumped in various rooms.

It's a big old house thank fully so the idea is we move from room to room as we do it up (v slowly!)

Floorplan of our place (sorry to hijack your thread OP)..I say go for it if you can convince your OH.

One final thing..my OH is quite handy with a drill, and is doing a fair bit himself. I am decent at decorating, so we're trying to do as much as we can ourselves to keep costs down (we have run out of money already!)

I would say that my main concern would be that the house looks as if has been extended and re-extended multiple times, and in some cases remodelled.

That type of renovation is likely to be much trickier, and have more surprises, than an older / apparently worse condition property that hasn't been knocked about as much / had strange holes put through walls / had lean tos first added then converted into rooms / had the central heating, electrics and plumbing added to piecemeal over the years.

We have renovated 3 houses since we got married.

First was a Victorian terrace with a modern sitting room added - the latter was where all the problems lay. Second was a really old core with lots of bits and bobs tacked onto it over the centuries ... that was a nightmare with all kinds of unwelcome surprises of the type i mentioned. Third - current house - was a late 1920s house, huge, dilapidated and substantially untouched since being built (except for a bathroom from each of the worst possible bathroom periods - 1950s and 1970s). Current house was by far the easiest to renovate - yes, it needed re-wiring and new plumbing and new windows (and after 10 years, a new roof) but everything was really straightforward. Take out the old, put in the new. Yes, we did our own extending (sculleries being somewhat outmoded, and the kitchen having been built for a cook / housekeeper, not the owner) , but we could have confidence that the strictural walls were exactly where they should be, and nobody had touched them before.

I would be REALLY wary of a multiply extended house, and would want a very detailed survey, particularly of all points where old and new meet.

I'd say £35k minimum if you choose more basic fixtures and finishes. If you are taking out walls then obviously that could push the price up a fair bit if they are load bearing (steels aren't cheap). £50k would give a more mid-range finish IMO. How handy are you? Can you do some yourself?