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Secondhand house update: aren't you finished yet?

If it feels like its taking us a LONG time to finish our house, it is.   We first saw the house in December 2012 .   It was moved to our property on the back of a truck in July 2013 ( full tour with BEFORE photos here ).   We got council approval for it in July 2014 .  Then we replaced the roof, and started working on stripping back each room (including removing floor coverings, asbestos , all fittings from the kitchen and bathroom) and gradually painting and renovating .   The bathroom was fitted out about in the middle of last year , but it took us ages to get back to painting it as we had other rooms to work on first.   We painted the outside of the house with the help of my parents early last year (there is still a bit left to do, but its looks so much better). A few months ago we had the new hardwood ironbark floor installed .  Now we are just waiting for the cabinet maker to build the kitchen (and then the plumber to plumb it, the electrician...