Well we've come to a point where we need to submit our receipts to our lender so that we can have the cheque for the renos. After adding up everything we've spent so far we found we still had some things that needed to be purchased in order to make our pre-approved total. So we've been running all over town buying the bulk of the remaining items. We've ordered the carpet, purchased our kitchen tap, toilet, toilet seat, light fixtures, wall mount for the downstairs bathroom, an electric fireplace for downstairs, and a whole bunch of smaller items. Tomorrow will be for picking up drywall and wood, and Monday we will be getting our kitchen sink and upstairs bath fixtures. We're basically on budget. Our time budget is way off though. We had hoped to have renters by September 1st, but right now it's looking like we might be able to aim for December 1. It's been quite a learning process! It's been exhausting. But this part of the project is finally a little fun as we get to start planning how the rooms will look. We're really looking forward to seeing how everything looks when it's installed.

The downstairs bathroom is still gutted and R has about eight more hours of work to do on the plumbing before reassembly can begin.