Apologies if this has been answered before, i've had a brief look and couldn't find anything..
I'm just about to buy my first house, and the one we are most likely to make an offer on seems almost perfect, it has the biggest rooms, it's cheap, has a good size garden, good development potential, everything's great except one thing... the entrance hall. Which to me is a really important room, it's the first thing you see, and first impressions really do count!
the hall is 2.11m x 1.79m so not huge, but the staircase is just off the hall, and closed off with a wall. My hope is that i can take out that wall, and replace it with a banister.. how easy is that to do? baring in mind i've never done any DIY that isn't building flat pack furnature and putting up pictures! i figure for a builder it would be a day job if that, but i'm not really in the know on these things.. so my question to you is, could i do it myself, and how? or shall i get a builder in and what do you think it would be likely to cost? (excluding cost of bannister / spindles etc as i can get them myself.
thank you!! i'll probably be bugging you alot over the coming months while i get my house looking like it should! it's super cheap.. but hasn't got much in it!
I'm just about to buy my first house, and the one we are most likely to make an offer on seems almost perfect, it has the biggest rooms, it's cheap, has a good size garden, good development potential, everything's great except one thing... the entrance hall. Which to me is a really important room, it's the first thing you see, and first impressions really do count!
the hall is 2.11m x 1.79m so not huge, but the staircase is just off the hall, and closed off with a wall. My hope is that i can take out that wall, and replace it with a banister.. how easy is that to do? baring in mind i've never done any DIY that isn't building flat pack furnature and putting up pictures! i figure for a builder it would be a day job if that, but i'm not really in the know on these things.. so my question to you is, could i do it myself, and how? or shall i get a builder in and what do you think it would be likely to cost? (excluding cost of bannister / spindles etc as i can get them myself.
thank you!! i'll probably be bugging you alot over the coming months while i get my house looking like it should! it's super cheap.. but hasn't got much in it!