Project House - How much do you think we need to invest?

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What needs doing:

• Floors
• Walls
• Bathrooms
• Kitchen
• Garden

We would consider converting the garage straight away as we don't need one.

The big question: how much do you think we'll spend on it? I reckon 50-75k but could be wrong.

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£180k

@TerryHearn could you break down the cost please?

You are very vague ie ... floors - sand them ? Replace them ? or put down carpet over them?

Walls - knock down some ? Wallpaper them? Panel them?

Can you expand on what you are thinking.

We’ve done pretty comprehensive renovation.

I found that a basic room full reno was around £5k plus additional £2k if window needed replaced. The kitchen probably £20k, bathroom £12k, garden £5k

It’s a bit ‘piece of string’ depending on standard you want to get to.

I’d estimate £80k minimum with no window replacements/rewiring

Completely depends on what you're doing with these things?
How many sq metres of flooring ? Wood? Underfloor hearing? Carpet? Walls up or down? What sort of kitchen as some cost a fortune how many bathrooms and showers etc

Just FYI those figures don’t include furniture

Floors would have to be replaced. I don't like carpet, so it'll be either wood or laminate. I would prefer wood for the living and dining room (not the biggest fan of carpet).

Walls would be wallpaper but would need to get this assessed by someone who knows more about walls than me.

No walls need knocking down given how it's cut unless we do convert the garage but that would be the front

Hmm it's tricky, without knowing your style. I'd think maybe the top end of your estimate. A new kitchen alone for that space could easily be around the 15k mark depending what you want from it/how luxurious you want it. It might be worth getting some quotes done before making any decisions or budgets etc. Flooring etc can vary massively depending on whether you go high end hardwood or cheaper laminate. I'd also want to know if the survey threw up anything 'boring' that needed doing before more decorative/optional improvements could be made.

Are you doing the work?

No idea on cost so sorry for the useless message but what a great space - it will look amazing when you're done with it.

I was going to guess 100k plus based on your thread title. It looks livable though?

@Vetyveriohohoh thanks, that's helpful. My husbands uncle has a window business and his cousin has a bathroom business, so I would hope we would be able to get the price down a bit given that it's family. We got the windows replaced in our house now (and that's the glass only and he charged £350 for 12 windows which I was impressed with).

My style, I don't even know what my style is! I'm no Mrs Hinch and like colours, very little grey in my house etc. Nothing over the top, nice but affordable. I was hoping not to spend more than 15k on the kitchen.

£80-100K. What you spend will depend on how much plumbing/electric work you want to do (eg moving loos vs just replacing where they are); what level of finish (expensive or cheap); whether you plan to do any work yourselves or not. Assume whatever you budget you’ll spend more, there will be at least one nasty surprise somewhere, and it will take massively longer than your longest estimate.

But it will be worth it in the end.

@Purplewithred someone else asked: I'm due my second child in May, so it's unlikely we'll be doing any work ourselves + don't really want to ask family as they all have their own families and lives to deal with.

Top tip if you’re after one: pull up and insulate under those ground floor floorboards before you sand/carpet them.

Insulate the external facing walls too if budget stretches.

Skirting board isn’t cheap and there is plenty missing. So depends whether you want to replace that. Matching it up might not be as easy as you think as well as architraves to match.

Radiators - think about those before as well.

So much to consider before you can guestimate.

Lovely project though!!

@Displayname & that's exactly what I need, people to tell me that there is a lot more to consider because I just don't know, maybe living in fairy dream land!!!

There’s a lot of variables there.

How’s the plumbing/electricity /boiler?
Are you paying contractors to do the work or doing it yourself?

High end? Budget/basics?

Bathrooms £5-10k
Kitchen £15k-£50k
Wood Flooring downstairs £5k-£20k
Carpeting upstairs £5k?
Garden 2k-15k
Plastering could be £500 per room

It depends on the spec you want, the timescale you want it in, and how much you're able and/or willing to do yourselves.

Having done many house renovations, for both rentals and for our own homes, I'd say that if you're competent DIYers you could do the work required there for probably around the 50-60k mark. If you need to get trades in for everything then you can easily double that.

Also, the kitchen looks liveable (but might be poor photography), could you live with some things for a while and 'get round' to them as and when?

The house looks dirty, and the renovations that have been done don't look to be the best quality, but a good clean and some decent painting might improve things no end.

It can definitely be worth it but some things can just get missed until builders/winter comes along especially if it’s your first project. You don’t have to insulate underfloor, but I think it’s beneficial. Good luck if you go for it!

If you aren't doing any work yourself then I doubt you could get it done under 100k
At 1800ft2 a full refurb could be as much as 180k if you go for high end finish

£180,000 seems excessive if you aren't extending.

The garage conversion would be the most expensive thing.

If you don't have to touch windows, plumbing, electrics, boiler, then I don't see how it can add up to £180,000.

those floorboards look original. That black varnish on the floors is 1950/1960 stain.

You could get these floorboards sanded. They may well be oak and if so would be beautiful. But the black stain is not easy to get off, wehad a professional do it.

The newel post at the bottom of the stairs looks like it is boxed in. You might find original under the white boxing.

some stuff is very liveable, unless you really want to change it now.
Painting the kitchen and that yellow bathroom would transform both rooms.

In fact all the bathrooms would scrub up and with new flooring and paint, would be fine.

So it really depends on what your final expectation are, and if you want it all done now.

Have you bought this property or are you thinking about it?