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  • 14-08-2017 7:32am
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    GaGa21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭


    We are buying our parents house and want to modernise it to our personal taste but don't know where to start?
    We will have a small mortgage for home improvements so although I'd love an architect to come in and get plans I doubt we could afford it. Are there alternative options?
    Are there companies who pack up and empty a house-a lot of clutter there? It just feels like I haven't a clue where to begin and it might be too big a job for the 2 of us. Any advice welcome!


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    [Deleted User]
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    GaGa21 wrote: »
    We are buying our parents house and want to modernise it to our personal taste but don't know where to start?
    We will have a small mortgage for home improvements so although I'd love an architect to come in and get plans I doubt we could afford it. Are there alternative options?
    Are there companies who pack up and empty a house-a lot of clutter there? It just feels like I haven't a clue where to begin and it might be too big a job for the 2 of us. Any advice welcome!

    You would be surprised how much it would cost for an Architect, but a good interior design person would be good also. Neither for internal minor works would be that much.

    I would advise to go one room at a time, start with the rooms you spend most time in, kitchen, TV room etc.

    yes, there is companies outthere who will pack up everything, but if your worried about money they would not be the best use of it.


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    tradesman
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    I have just done the same thing - only difference is I am in the building game! Bungalow is about 35 yrs old so not too old fashioned. I added an en - suite between back to back bedrooms. I took out the dividing wall & stole a few feet from one bedroom to provide some extra space. Changed a small shower room to a utility. Put that shower over the bath & moved toilet & wash hand basin & re tiled the main bathroom. What was the utility is now an extension of the kitchen. Kitchen needs doing next & then the living room. I started at one end of the house & am working my way through so as to keep the building works away from what has just been done.


  • #4
    GaGa21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭GaGa21


    tradesman wrote:
    I have just done the same thing - only difference is I am in the building game! Bungalow is about 35 yrs old so not too old fashioned.

    Yeah this house is about the same age so not too bad. Upstairs pretty much just needs a new bathroom, painting and interior design. Downstairs is a living room, hall, galley kitchen with an extension added for wheelchair access bedroom and bathroom. But I would like a bigger kitchen so don't know whether to knock a wall thru living room to make more open plan or extend on extension. Need to keep the bedroom downstairs otherwise we'd knock into there for kitchen.


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