It's been rewarding NOW but oh so challenging! 6 weeks without a kitchen initially... Floors sanded (THE DUST, THE DUSSSSTTT!), Tradesmen here what seems like every second day for the first 3 months (so I need to be up, dressed, kids sorted for breakfast etc) before 7am... Now it's pool people for the past 6 weeks, so up at 6am, baking provided, esky filled with ice (so purchase that every day) and coke zero and water before they get there... It will be worth it in the end but very much like child birth. I think I'm at the stage where I push, haha, so not long to go, but much more pain ahead.
Then we just have to build the deck, outside verandah, render the house, level the front section, relocate our entrance and renovate 3 bathrooms? It's a 2 year plan, as finances allow..