Hi Dalida! Yes, your flat needs a renovation, specially in the bathroom and kitchen. The wooden floor looks nice. Before starting the redising, it will be necessary you make a 'wishlist'. I would recommend a bigger kitchen . Have you considered having only 1 bigger bathroom? How many peple wil be living in the flat? How many bedrooms do you need? Is the kitchen entrance as nice as the main one ? Would you consider turning the kitchen entrance onto de main entrance to the flat? Then you'd be able to enter to the kitchen space ( it can be an attractive open-plan design - look at this one we fitted in a small apartment) Imagine that where the mirror is, is where your window is. If you turn this entrance onto the 'main one', you'll be able to have a big bedroom on the other side of the flat ( where the main entrance). You can keep the entrance and use it, but not for guest ( not nice to have visitors entering through your bedroom). As you can see there're a lot of options to discuss. I would recommend you to contact a profesional that helps you with the process, because if you meet him/her you can design together a really nice flat. Which style do you prefer? Would it be posible to change the position of the gas boiler? How much storage space do you need? For the new bathroom I would recomend to have storage space, and a large mirror will help to make the space feel bigger. As you can see, there're a lot of questions and lots of decissitions to take. Don't hesitate contacting a profesional to help you in the process it will sabe you money and headaches! We're based in South of Spain, so we're not close to help you with the renovation, but I hope my comments help you! Good luck with the renovation, Sara Leiva Architect @ Mirasur Proyectos SL PS- My recomnendation is not to divide the flat into 2 smaller ones - it will be much more expensive, messy, and you'll have 2 non- attractive tiny flats

I have the same decision to make and have narrowed it down to wood effect tiles or wood effect LVT (eg Karndean). The benefits of LVT are 1) it is warm underfoot (we will have underfloor heating but don't want to have to have it on all the time), 2) softer to walk/fall on and 3) it doesn't have grout lines to get grubby. This is a big pro for me as our current kitchen grout gets dirty so quickly. The benefits of tiles are 1) they won't fade in the sun unlike LVT (we are s facing) 2) they can come in bigger planks than LVT so fewer joins and a less "busy" effect and 3) I think they look more realistic, ie more like real wood, but this is subjective. Also 4) they may be more hardwearing depending on which LVT you choose. Good luck with your decision!

Just seen your latest post; There are quite a few (free) 3D floor planners which are simple to use like Opunplanner or RoomSketcher amongst others, if you want to have a play about and visualise how the layout may work out. Alternatively, you could lay out (cardboard) boxes in the room with sizes similar to the furniture to get a brief idea on how the space will work best.

Thank you all for your thoughts / advice! We are yet to move in but we know the house needs rewiring and a few new windows etc so we are keen to get started as soon as we get the keys. I agree the bay window is a lovely feature and I’ve been looking at creating a bench seat with a small table for our every day family dining and then I am wanting something larger to host dinner for our extended family as we have quite a large family and would love to host Christmas and birthdays etc. The kitchen is clean and well looked after, just needs modernising to our taste. There is no immediate rush to replace it unless of course we extend / move things around. I also have my own business that involves cake decorating so creating an island or space so that I could work from home would be a reason for us to extend the kitchen. I think you’re right in that we need to live in the house for some time and get a feel of which areas we are wasting / not utilising and decide from there.