Budget sense check for open plan kitchen diner

junebug87

Would love to know if my budget looks to be (roughly) suitable for this level of home renovation as I have no experience in this area.

Current floor plan has the back of the house split into three rooms, id like to open this up into something like the other photo (AI so not exactly to scale). This would involve knocking down two internal walls, building a new wall next to the stairs, a new kitchen, new flooring, potentially moving gas mains.

The house also needs artex ceiling removal throughout and new carpets upstairs and a few new windows so need to save some budget for that too.

Im thinking of budgeting £50k for this, does this feel achievable?

jonnydeppiwish!

I wouldn’t have a single garage and that’ll be a lot of steel in the back. But love the open plan at the back

Markdavid1962

I think alot will depend on the quality of the finish, ie kitchen granite counter tops, are walls you want to remove are they load bearing. Last year we spent 20k just on the kitchen and removing one wall.

I would get 3 quotes and check the level of detail

twopenny

Beautiful house.

I couldn't work out why the new idea made me feel cramped when you'd opened up the back but it's because you've less living space of course.

The study will be dark. The narrow room is difficult to adapt to anything else.

The garage is going to be an expensive part too. With the huge size of cars now is the length,width sufficient?

I'd go for your dream kitchen dinner but not the garage.

junebug87

Sorry should have said to ignore the garage/study bit - that was an idea to try and add some storage space (not for a car, scale is all wrong as well) but agree it doesnt work! Id just ran out of AI image generations so left it there.

jonnydeppiwish!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81996359#Comment_81996359

Thank goodness! The only addition I would make is putting a shower room downstairs, but that’s only my personal preference.

Bigphil1474

You are basically taking out the 3 walls round the study, and putting in a stud wall next to the steps. A lot will depend on whether they are load bearing and if they can get an RSJ in there to take the strain. The steel has to sit on something which might possibly be an issue. I think your budget should be easily enough to get the structural work and first finish done, as above depends what quality on the internal fixtures you want after that. Now you've confirmed no garage, looks good to me. Get 3 good quotes.

FreeBear

First port of call would be a structural engineer to see if it possible within your budget. Assuming the cost of steel work isn't excessive, you can then reach out to builders to get final costs.

Don't forget you will need Building Regs sign off - Any builder that says you don't, give them a firm kick up the backside and find someone else.

junebug87

I'd found a couple of properties in the same area with similar layouts that have opened up the space - namely this one which is the most similar in terms of layout (downstairs WC is in a different place) - this is what they have done to the back of the property - looks like they may have needed steels there.

Another property seems to have just knocked through the kitchen/study part (this one was where the idea for creating half garage/half study came from)

EssexExile

The only way to know what it will cost is to get quotes, there's not enough information here for people to make useful comments. I just spent £150,000 totally re-jigging this place.

rob7475

Whether it's doable on your budget depends on how involved you want to get with the renovation:

Will you be doing any of the work yourself?

Are you happy organising and managing the different trades and project managing the renovation?

Or are you looking to employ a builder to manage all the trades and timelines for you?

£50k isn't a massive budget these days. The cost of materials have gone up massively over the last few years. It's probably doable but you might need to get stuck in and get your hands dirty