We bought the house not only for a place to live but also as an investment and there was a lot of work to do. We plodded away getting the work done as and when we could in between working our day jobs. It was tough going but we were motivated being aware of the fact that there was good profit to be made renovating houses and selling them on.
It took us a lot longer than we anticipated though!
There was no kitchen to speak of, the bathroom was seriously outdated and every single room needed stripping out completely and bringing back to life to make the whole experience of the house more modern. It was very enjoyable doing all this work on our own house. We felt free.
Looking back it's strange to think the jobs which seemed the worst were actually nowhere near as bad as we thought they would be and the jobs which we thought would be a breeze turned out to be the real headaches.
I thought nothing of fitting a new kitchen seeing as I am trained as a carpenter. The kitchen was one of the worst jobs of all!
Strange though it may seem one of the hardest things was finding kitchen worktops in Bristol. You would think in a big city such as this it would not be hard to find good kitchen worktops. Think again!
Maybe our timing was just out but nearly every supplier we contacted didn't have what we were looking for. In the end we actually had to source our specific worktops from Italy!
I'm glad we did though because they were absolutely amazing worktops. I firmly believe that holding out for these high-quality worktops added a substantial amount to our final selling price which saw us making 100 percent profit on the sale.
