As a fellow owner of a long-term renovation, congratulations! We are fortunate that our place is a duplex, and we were able to move things around when we bought it (3 years ago) so that one flat is livable and the other is gutted. It will be probably 2 years before we move downstairs to the flat we are currently fixing up, and the we get to start fixing up the upstairs. I continue to look forward to having a dishwasher and a garbage disposal.