Hi Matthew we bought an old doer upper that needs refreshing so I was keen to follow your post. We so far painted the front door replaced front letterbox guerney washed the concrete drive and have bought a panel lift door for the carport. We removed all the overgrown trees. Maybe guerney wash your roof , driveway and front steps, thats our next job (roof) and start with the gardens. If you keep the awnings - spraypaint them in a single tone, paint or replace the driveway fence, Remove that tall shrub or trim it, plant a row of plants up along the drive. Great house, like ours you can only improve it in value. Enjoy renovating!

first task would be to organise a survey including precise location of existing buildings so you can be sure of the exact amount of space available ... the block is so much bigger than you realise and you should ask local council about precise set backs needed from all boundaries for your specific block (not standard setbacks for the average rectangular block) and, depending on long term goals and the number of people who will need to live in the house immediately, you could renovate in stages eg internal reno with new kitchen and bathroom, new laundry pantry and rear deck, new master suite and front verandahs, clean roof tiles and convert old garage to rumpus, add pool then new double garage....the new master suite, garages and front verandah should create a vintage look with simple skillion roof, wall cladding and the bigger front porch something like this

I would borrow from the lounge to relocate the entry, open it up to the kitchen dining and open your kitchen up to the laundry to incorporate butlers with laundry behind cupboard. You would have to re-thing the layout of the kitchen but could easily re-use some of the original elements

unable to read dimensions so based on assumed room sizes my suggestion include a more spacious kitchen and modest living/dining room and strongly recommend that you keep three bedrooms to allow space for a separate media, study guest room and/or use the smallest bedroom as a wiw and removing the bathtub allows for a more generous storage, bigger vanity plus separate toilet and shower and there's a Euro laundry and back door to a potential outside entertaining area