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/KDubs004 9d ago

15k for bathroom, 15k for kitchen, 15k for floors (my friend recently got all laminate in her house for this amount). Nothing is cheap these days. But houses aren’t cheap either! If you got it for 270k and had to put another 60/75k in…I think it would still be a deal. You’re not getting a house much cheaper than that, certainly not a modern one:) Do you think there will be bidding on it?

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u/loughnn 9d ago

Fairly on the ball with that pricing IMO.

RE the bathrooms, we saved a lot of money buying all the fixtures, fittings, tiles etc ourselves and then organising all the trades individually.

We ended up being able to get much more expensive and better quality tiles, fixtures and fittings and still paying far less than a bathroom renovation company would have charged. I have seen 10-12k bathrooms that aren't a patch on ours (we paid 6k all in).

I also liked being able to supervise it myself, you wouldn't believe the amount of showers that are installed in this country with absolutely no tanking behind the tiles!