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That looks just plain bad.
My take is location/nice light and the size you want/need is most important. Second to that is not giving someone money for bad design.
Easy to say as I never lived in a building site, but I much rather would have a go at a place that needs all the things doing than live in that house with all the stupid down lights.
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Second to that is not giving someone money for bad design.
yes, that kitchen would not work for me at all.
this is one of the reasons i'm having a bit of a "debate" with my partner about whether we should look for a doer upper or a done upper. I'm in the camp of "we can do it how we want it" whereas she is "i cba with all the hassle of getting work done and it'll take too long and cost too much".
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Harsh responses are fine. I don't want to end up in a half finished house and out of cash - that's kind if where we are now. Although as it's our 20 years worth of "unfinished", it's pretty comfortable.
So ball parking the jobs, based on work we have done here and quotes friends have had recently:
Roof - 30k
Windows - £25k (obviously huge range of prices of windows so this would be PVC but not the cheapest ones)
Re-wire - £15k
New rads, boiler, random plumbing sorting - £10k
Back extension (build) - £50k
Kitchen - £25k
Upstairs bathroom and downstairs loo - £10k
Making good, plastering, I bet a couple of ceilings end up coming down - £15k
Decorating the whole place - £12k
Carpets - £5k
so that's £197k, add 10% contingency , call it £220k.
I'm guessing they will take an offer as it's been on a while, so let's say £680k plus £220k, now we are £900k in. That's not totally wild for a nice example of one of those houses in that area, but it's not a bargain either and a lot of work to get it there - and it would probably end up over budget as well.
Here's a smaller house on for just under £900k but it has a bigger extension than I've budgeted for and also has the loft converted:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136682060#/