I haven't updated this in a while, but I have been working on the house a bit at a time, amidst other tasks like traveling with my daughters and going to Finland for half of June (20 hours of daylight, awesome!). I will take some updated bathroom pictures tomorrow as I hope to have the last item, the sink, installed.
I completely replumbed all of the supply plumbing with CPVC and it came out great! I got pissed at the PEX as if you buy a coil, it wants to stay in a coil.. it wouldn't route neatly under the house and looked like crap IMO. Anybody want to buy about $300 worth of PEX tubing and fittings? :-)
We decided to put in a bathtub and do tile around it and halfway up the adjoining wall. I had to change the drain plumbing for the tub, but it wasn't a huge deal. The tile came from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, and was a screaming deal at $57. I still have a box and a half left over! I paid a friend of mine who's a tile guy to help me do the tile; he came over on three afternoons and did most of the walls. I finished the walls, floors, and did the grout.
The past couple of days I've been painting and installing the fixtures -- valves, shower head, toilet, sink valves, hoses, and drain traps. I have to mount the bathroom pedestal sink tomorrow (a pain in the ass, BTW), a couple of pieces of baseboard, and the bathroom will be done.
Finances to date:
Our total renovation cost so far is at $4176, according to my records in Mint. This cost includes everything from paying for an initial inspection, paying an electrician so the city would turn the power on, $350 in labor paid to the friend who helped me do the tile, etc. There were a few tool purchases, fixtures, some framing supplies for areas other than the bathroom (garage side door, floor joists).
Since I've been working on a rather leisurely schedule on weekends when we're not traveling, I've been able to absorb most of the cost in our monthly budget. I initially had $8k reserved for this job and a new roof on my current house, and was worried that the new house would suck all of that $8k away before I got to the necessary renovations on the current place (to turn it into a rental). Status as of today: $7k left! I'm very happy. :-D