Ok so please lets just take this one step at a time, i am here to listen and learn and hopefully make the right decisions when the time comes. (Unless i have already made the wrong ones....) I have two houses both are 1.5 storey and both right next to each other. The house i live in is very basic, very traditional and in need of a lot of maintenance and improvements over a long period of time. However having very small children and a partner pretty much prevents any type of serious work being un