Our big money saving refurb journey

Halle71

So, we put our house on the market on Tuesday and, before the details were even up we had accepted an asking price offer and had an offer excepted on the house we wanted.

Both were on at the same price but the house we are buying is bigger and in a better area but needs work doing.

It needs:

3-4m kitchen extension with bi-fold doors and skylights
Wooden flooring on ground floor
Big loft conversion dividing into two bedrooms
Two new replacement bathrooms
(Possible ensuite added to first floor master bedroom)
Carpets on first and second floors
New doors throughout
Decorate throughout

We are in SW London.

My parents are giving us £100k and we can probably scrape together another £20k. Initially I thought this was enough but now not sure.
We know a lot of tradesmen and we are possibly going to project manage it ourselves.

We will source as many materials as possible unless our tradesmen can get trade prices.

Looking for:

Kitchen - modern, high gloss with island
Granite type work tops
Glass splash backs
Bi-fold doors
Wood flooring (probably engineered wood)
Bathrooms
Carpets (sisal?)
Fire doors

Any reviews, recommendations or advice will be gratefully received!

Doozergirl

Congratulations It sounds like the house itself needs no work? Will the boiler cope with the new demand and are the electrics up to date? In an old house, the plasteris likely to fall off the walls.

Being in the business for aaages, I would use:

Howdens for the kitchen (magnet trade and benchmarx also similar) All trade only but genuinely cheaper and more reliable than high street through the right contact.
Appliance City for appliances once I'd chosen the ones I wanted.
My local glass and mirror company for splashbacks
Diapol for stone worktops
What kind of bifold door? I'd buy Jeld-wen or vu-fold for wood. Google for cheapest price on Jeldwen and compare.
Victoria Plumb for sanitaryware - they do treat trade a lot better than the public.
Taps etc - I'd find ones I liked by a half decent brand like Bristan and then compare prices. Boundary Bathrooms were good, recently. Ikea do good kitchen taps, very reasonably. They are also doing some bathroom things.
Wood flooring Howdens, Magnet Trade or a very heavy barter at Floors2Go
Carpet, I use a man in a warehouse in birmingham. As far from a fancy showroom as you get, but he can buy in anything.
Fire doors - Howdens or Magnet Trade again.

Lighting, mix between screwfix for basics and the Next sale or John Lewis.

Doozergirl

On that budget, is that some things may need to wait, even if you project manage everything yourselves . What are you planning to do?