What’s hard is finding the time.
We have a fixer upper house, two full time jobs, and 2 kids under the age of 4.
We do a lot of diy out necessity. We can’t afford to get someone else in. Especially after spending lots of savings on taking maternity leaving and now the costs of 2 in nursery.
But I do wish we could get someone else to do it and then a job that takes us 2 months would likely be done in a day or 2.
To the OP -
The kitchen in our house is older me. The worktop is starting to disintegrate by the sink. The previous owners tried to jazz it up by putting a resin colour thing on it that is slowly coming off.
The flooring in lots of rooms is diy laminate terribly fitted (previous owners) with gaps between board and large sections of brown silicone sealant at the edges to account for more gaps.
3 of the rooms upstairs were a mismatch of carpets. Different carpets duct taped together on the underside.
90% of the house is covered in badly applied textured wallpaper.
There’s a random sink in one of the bedrooms and no sink in the toilet.
The boiler doesn’t heat the hot water anymore, we use the back up immersion heater. It’s more expensive to run but still cheaper than getting someone in. The boiler is ancient, though I think younger than me.
The tumble dryer broke a year ago. It has a parts warranty but we’d have to pay for the labour. It wasn’t a problem in the summer but noticing it more now.
We've 2 rooms upstairs that we’ve made nice and are 80% through another one. I did one wall of paint over the terrible wall paper when we first moved in and we’ve replaced some external doors. That’s taken about a year of evenings and weekends 😂 I think we’re still a few years off doing the kitchen.
When we bought the house we thought it was just ‘decoration’ I’m now learning that decoration is expensive and time consuming and often grows legs.
The location however is perfect and the house is just the right size for our growing family.