We are living in this home and remodeling at the same time....I mean major remodel! The first bathroom is completely out right now, no walls, tub/shower gone, old plumbing hanging out, waiting on a new shower. The old kitchen was enclosed, we took those walls out, put up a very large glue-lam and now you can see straight out to the ocean, the living room area already had 3 8x8 windows, so now since we are on the cliffs looks like we are right there on the ocean! There are beautiful oak and maple hardwood floors that had been hiding under 30 yr old carpet. We will re-finish those at the end of the project. The windows in the bedrooms are all old icky aluminium framed, replacing those with new vinyl. there have been a few setbacks, not too bad...but when my husband was removing the wall in the hall to enlarge the bathroom, a rats nest[huge] fell out on his head, which isn't that funny, but made for a great laugh! the bathroom downstairs hadn't been used in years and now we know why..we replaced the toilet, made sure the shower worked, tore out the other only, when you use the shower downstairs there is a huge water leak in the wall, all over the floor which luckily is concrete, but you can't get to the leak without tearing out the shower which obviously is not an option right now, our fridge is sitting in the middle of the kitchen pretty much, you have to push it around sometimes to reach a few of the drawers or cabinets, we need to tear out some cupboards to make a place for the fridge but first re-wire the outlets, so won't happen anytime soon, too much else going on. So there we are, the remodel life.