How to deal with renovation fatigue?

Post date: 2018-10-13 06:02:29

We're in the middle of a home renovation that is dragging on...and on...and on. It's no one's fault, but it's been months and the end of the project is still nowhere in sight and I'm starting to have some trouble coping with my living space being a perennial construction zone. Any survival tips from those that have been there and done that?

We're maybe a half to two-thirds (hard to tell) of the way through a big home renovation, which is overall going pretty well with no unpleasant surprises (knock on wood), but due to various factors outside anyone's control, it's been dragging on since forever. We started in April and were originally quoted 10-12 weeks, but our contractors are still at it and the end date (even a general end date range) is still unknown. Our GC has been fantastic and unusually communicative for a contractor and so we know where our specific hangups are and exactly what he's doing to resolve them. My question is more along the lines of tips or mental hacks for how to deal when your living space has been upended and there's really not a whole lot you can do about any of it.

Specific challenges:
-- Our family of four (two adults, two small children) plus cat and dog are currently all inhabiting our small main floor; husband and I are sharing a tiny bedroom with our 11-month-old son and our coming into the bedroom after he's asleep often wakes him up (there is nowhere else for him or us to sleep at the moment)
-- Everyone is always tripping over each other, we're constantly snapping at the dog to GTFO of the way, and my 11-month-old is getting mobile as hell so we're constantly on edge trying to make sure we're not accidentally trodding on him
-- Husband and I have no easy or clean way to store stuff that used to inhabit our bedroom, like our clothing and our nightstands, so a lot of it ends up on the floor or living in laundry baskets and we just feel disorganized and scattered
-- Part of the wall of the room we're sleeping in has been torn open to connect some pipes to the upstairs, and one of our hangups is when we can get the sheetrock guys in here to close it up, so every day that it remains open, it rains more construction debris on my damn bed
-- Construction dust ON EVERYTHING, it doesn't matter how much I clean, the very next day it's back again AHHHHHHHHH

Happy endings? Specific survival strategies? Pithy reminders like "eyes on the prize"? I'll take anything at this point. Thank you!

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