What would you do with this?

[Judgsu]

Hi - We have finally bought and moved into the home. We would like to redesign and add some value, space, modern sleek look to this house. Can anyone float any suggestions that we could try use for our house renovation project? This is our first home and completely new to such a project. Any help would be grateful!

What do you want to change about it? An extra bathroom? More bedrooms? The photos are limited, so it’s not possible to see whether they’re dated or not.

It depends on what how many rooms you need etc. The kitchen looks fairly recent.

The best thing you can do is to live in it just as it is for a year or two and get to know the house and how you use it. Only then can you know what needs changing to suit you.

The floor plan looks fantastic! What is wrong with it? As first time buyers I’d just say don’t spend money if you don’t have to- pay off the mortgage and save it for when the boiler breaks down!

If you wanted to revamp the outside, have a look around neighbouring houses to see what you like.

From those pics it looks lovely and modern as it is. It’s very nice. What’s the upstairs like?

It’s absolutely immaculate! It loo like it’s already been renovated, I was expecting pictures of a wreck!

I would be filling that garden with lovely plants though….

The only thing that springs to mind is to take out that very strangely placed toilet upstairs , it would be better as a wardrobe / large cupboard or just extra bit of bedroom - it’s bizarre.

You can't do a house renovation project on this house.

Looks fine already to me.
Agree with @floppybit , concentrate on making a beautiful garden.
You need plants, not renovation, IMHO! 🌳🌿🌱🌻🌺🍁🪾

Why can’t anyone just buy a house and enjoy it anymore? Everyone wants to change everything immediately.

It’s a lovely home OP. Unless you have loads of kids, it’s a great size and layout. I would recommend saving your money and just decorating as you go to your taste.

Agreed with the others and I would be very careful about what you do. As it is currently it would work for most people and is in very good condition and you may risk knocking off value rather than adding it if you make it into something more niche that will appeal to fewer people in the future.

Move in, do nothing for a bit then spend money on plants etc as someone else had suggested,

Most people decide what they want to change and ask for advice on how to go about it, rather than decide they need to renovate something and ask for advice on what to change.

That house is already turn-key, and has been extended. You won’t add any value by renovating it further. If there are things you don’t like about it, by all means change them to suit your preferences, but that isn’t a house you can flip.

There's nothing to 'renovate'. You could decorate if you would like it to look different.

Agree with others the garden is bare. I'd be researching some easy maintenance planting for that. 8

It looks a perfect layout. All you need to do is decorate to your taste.

Yeah except the odd toilet that is absolutely perfect floor plan. I guess tpilet isn't wide enough to fit door from the landing.

I am assuming this was also boight for the "already done" price so you would be going over local price ceiling with big works. Which it doesn't need.

Pp is right. I was goven the same advice about living in it for a bit to see if anything needs changing practically. It is the bestand safest way.

If you wanted a project, which yescan be great, you needed to buy a doer upper.

i don’t think you really need to do anything to this house - you can move straight in.
I might be inclined to make the boot room into the downstairs toilet as I don’t like the idea of walking through the kitchen and utility room to use the loo. This would then enable you to make the kitchen bigger by moving the utility room into the old shower room space. But, I really don’t think this would make financial sense as the house is already done up and you would’ve paid a premium for this

I completely agree with this. What do you want to change about the house? Apart from maybe decorating to suit your own taste, which most people would expect to do, what else could need changing? The only obvious work would be to bring the very unloved garden to life, which would make a lovely project for the next few months.

Surely this is a stealth boast?!

I think someone is fishing for compliments here!

Nothing needs doing, apart from the enjoyable (to me anyway!) job of making that garden shine.

Do you mean decorate? There’s nothing to renovate.

It might make more sense to link to your previous thread on this property where you suggested you wanted a larger kitchen island.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/property/5335878-is-an-extension-required?reply=144342832

FWIW, the conclusion of the previous thread (live for a year and see how you use the space) was sensible. Its a property sold and presumably priced as "in good order", knocking around the internals and rearranging space is not going to add value so don’t do it unless its “for you”.

I would focus on making the garden less anonymous.

This looks like one of the houses in "this city is ours"

You could possibly spend a lot of money doing s 2 storey rear extension that would probably not add much value to the property. Otherwise I'd just enjoy the house.

What is 'wrong' with it OP???

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Plant some trees in the garden this autumn. And just live in it.