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!

This. Lovely home already.

Are you actually living in it yet @Judgsu or are you still in the process of buying?

Edited to amend - sorry, I see you have moved in now. I was just reading your previous thread where you hadn't moved in yet.
How are you finding it so far? Is there anything obvious that needs changing?

The only thing that really stands out to me is that you access the downstairs loo through the utility. I personally wouldn't like that but tbh everything else looks good. I'd definitely echo living in it for a year or more before doing anything major, although if you wanted to paint, that might quench the thirst of wanting to change things for a while.

I'd recommend getting an estate agents opinion before you do anything like extending, I'd also say if you only extend the ground floor you risk becoming bottom heavy.

It's very exciting to buy your first home and it's so tempting to jump straight into renovations. We lived in our current home for about 6 or 7 years before doing a massive renovation, although I redecorated in that time.

I think it's thanks to all the property programmes these days, the 'reno' seems to have become a badge of honour, or even a rite of passage. Anyone who's anyone does a house renovation. Perfectly good houses are butchered and nothing is ever good enough.