Call a contractor Monday; get some quotes. Simple. Done.

If I’m understanding your question correctly you want to remove some walls completely? I agree with tatts that you need to call contractors; none of us here can estimate from a picture what the cost might be in your area. It looks like you’ve got electricity in at least one wall and that’s got to go somewhere...

Are you wanting to straighten out the arches too?

We want to remove the arches completely. Theres no electrical in the parts we would remove. I realize no one here can give me an exact cost of the project, just thought someone here might have done something like this before and could say if it was a simple project or a bigger deal than it looks.

I’m sure it will be simple enough and well worth the expense. Yikes.

“5 year home” ? Does that mean you plan to live there only five years? If so, make as few cosmetic changes as necessary, don’t waste your money.

Removing walls is like opening a can of worms you never know what is there. This wall might be load bearing can have all sorts of stuff in the wall that is going somewhere . There is no way to tell you how much.If you want some real help a floor plan to scale is always good . If you start this you will have to realize flooring will all need to match, not sure what you mean by kitchen surfaces. First step a contractor vist to see what you are dealing with . Right now I am not even sure what this looks like and what wall you are planning removing so a picture right side up for sure.

I think the house looks nice, with the exception of the paint colors, that I dont think go well with the flooring. Since you are only going to be there 5 yrs or less, leave it, alone and just get it repainted.

Spending 100K right when you move in rarely gives you the best long term results for that money. Especially if you only plan to there 5 years. Don’t do anything. Move in. Revisit your ideas in 6 months. Then it’ll only be 4 years that you’ll live there after the project is fine, so you’ll want to spend even less.

100k?? I don’t think it would cost a tenth of that to clean up that mess. If you can’t remove the walls, and I’m sure you can’t remo ALL of them, no big deal, restore them so it looks less like an Escher painting. I would think as long as you keep it simple it could only improve your selling situation

A kitchen remodel, new flooring for the whole house, a whole house repaint, all new landscaping, plus the wall coming down will be lucky to come in at 100K of materials with all DIY labor.

Endra: So, you're in North Carolina. What gave you the idea that the OP is anywhere near you, or even lives in the US at all? Her idea books suggest otherwise.

I think it will cost $12,386.

Wrong Hot Rod ..... or maybe you forgot the tax?

OP, after you get a few bids, really hope you let us know. Doing this looks like a bigger project than you think it will be. Perhaps it is worth it to you if you hate it but don't count on recouping the cost in 5 years. If your market is hot, you don't need this change to make money. If a slow market, there are other cheaper fixes (paint,drywall interior 'windows') to make the house more up to date.

Oh live wire I missed the whole wish list. I thought it was just paint landscaping and this. I don’t think I would Reno a kitchen for a 5 year plan!

Maybe just drywalling over all those "holes" and repainting would be a less expensive plan.