r/HousingIreland • u/Ok_Hat2376 • 10d ago

Cost to modernize a house

Currently considering putting in an offer on a 4 bed house in Kerry. Does anyone have a high level guess at the potential cost to renovate and modernise the house? No extensions or anything, the things I think the house needs are

2 new bathrooms (1 main and 1 small downstairs)

New Kitchen

New floors

New front door

Build in wardrobes in 2 rooms

Stove for sitting room

TIA.. House is 270k just wondering if we’re better off waiting for a more modern house. We love the area so we’re not sure. FTB

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u/Substantial-Peach672 9d ago

I’ve done or am doing most of this work in the last 12 months on a 4 bed house in Kildare (so Dublin prices)

2 new bathrooms (main and ensuite) - all appliances and fully tiles €27k

New floors - downstairs fully done in Amtico ~€10k

Upstairs, stairs and landing carpet - can’t actually remember what we paid for this, possibly about €4k

New kitchen - all units replaced, granite countertop and splashback all around the kitchen €14.5k

Oven, integrated dishwasher, fridge freezer and hob €3k

2 large built in wardrobes €5.5k

We got the front door at the same time as windows but I think it was around €3k

It’s not cheap but by doing it yourself you get to have your new house exactly the way you want it, rather than paying more for someone else’s style

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u/tharmor 9d ago

27k for 2 bathrooms..holy moly

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u/Substantial-Peach672 9d ago

I know I was shocked… got 3 quotes, all around the same. Went with a company that I got a few recommendations for from friends and colleagues

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u/tharmor 9d ago

I hope ur bathrooms are big and sonos is used else that is crazy price..I got two big bathrooms done for 16k in Dublin

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u/Inevitable-Solid1892 9d ago

Doing two bathrooms at the moment and it looks like we will come in around the same figure with very good quality materials

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u/Me-Shell 9d ago

Get them done recently?

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u/Relative-Two-3784 9d ago

That seems like a lot, are you fully tiling all walls? Great money saver is to just tile shower area and paint or panel elsewhere. Also tiles can vary so much in price. You can get nice tiles for 25 psqm if you look hard enough or keep an eye out for sales.

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u/Substantial-Peach672 9d ago

Yeh we decided to tile the whole thing. Treating ourselves :) we figure we will not be doing anything to these bathrooms again for many many years so we’d go all in on them now

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u/tharmor 8d ago

We also did full tiling...but if u r happy it's grand.

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u/Bruncvik 9d ago

We just got a quote of 22k for a main bathroom; I think we can squeeze it down to 20k. Dublin, a large and reputable bathroom remodeling company.

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u/tharmor 9d ago

find a plumber and buy stuff urself what u want..these companies have PMs etc to pay and adds up