Water pressure, door level ...as in do doors close when you want them open? Cabinet doors..do the open smooth lye ,do they bump others when open...floors for level ..take a level with you and use it for surfaces and floors, do not expect everything perfect but very close it should be.also check that your closet systems are installed properly, I had a home one time that when you put a hanger on it the bar was too far back and clothes wouldn't hang right.make certain all windows open and close easily.check heat and air.

Good on you abstar9511 for choosing to Renovate! I've personally gone through a renovation in the last 18 months and it is worth it. From the pictures the house looks to be in fairly decent nick for a Perth original, especially one by the beach with our salt and winds. If you choose to update the gardens at a later date, Planted Passion is happy to quote on a resilient garden design and installation for your properties' weather/soil/aspect conditions. Personally, I can see a Cottage Garden vibe which would like stunning, especially with the inclusion of some Hedges for beach wind protection. Good luck with the reno!

is there anything in the house worth saving? it would be such a waste to do major renovations only to be torn down in a few years..please post distances to all fences and direction of north on the new post as well as a discription of other new and renovated houses in the area to give a rough idea of maximum investment

Update on this. We have decided to keep upstairs unchanged in terms of layout. We will live in the house for a period before making any layout changes upstairs - 2 Bedrooms will be for our girls, while our son will sleep downstairs in the living room (now bedroom) as this was seldom going to be used. Now we are looking at the kitchen design - photos attached of current kitchen which will be completely refreshed along with the tiling in the kitchen / living area. Looking for any ideas on how to best update the kitchen - notice under the stair case is not currently being utilised but we would like to perhaps have the fridge or pantry under the stairs to include this dead space. From the kitchen window to the stair case is 4950mm x 3200mm approximately depth of the current kitchen. The stair case hangs into the kitchen around 750-800mm. Wondering if it would look silly to have perhaps the fridge built here and this cabinetry would sit proud of the bench space next to it, but we could also install deeper bench space to balance the look... We are planning to have the eye-saw built in fridge space currently in the kitchen removed altogether.