Demo with little children certainly will not be easy. I give you a lot of credit. It will be worth it when it is finished!

Try a public storage, they have different sized units to match your need. When I was moving to my new home, I used PODS for all my furniture and everything else got moved to storage units close to where I was going to move. This was invaluable to me. Costs a few pennies, but worth it. Hang in there on the demo.

When my parents were demolishing most of their house for a massive remodel, they shipped us off to relatives for the summer.

Can you do that?

We did this last summer ... the only two rooms downstairs that weren't demo'd were DH's office (off limits), and a guest room (luckily a master suite) that was our kitche n/family room. We spent a lot of time at the pool in the day, and a lot of time in the master bedroom otherwise. That's where the only tv was.

Toward the end of the interior redo, we redid the back porch area ... in hindsight, we should have done that first. In the interior, we had moved a door from the livin g room to the new breakfast area, so we needed to rearrange the back. We added a large patio, covered the existing concrete slab with decking, the and bought deep seating for the covered porch ... and immediately realized, "Duh. We could have lived out here all summer." Oh well.

We also rented a PODS unit for much of our furniture, and it was well worth it.

I second the idea of a POD or a nearby mini storage unit.

I third the POD. That is what we did. Only downside is that I had to pack up much of the kitchen 2 months before I really had to (we couldn't fit the POD and dumpster at the same time). Doesn't really bother me now though. We are only a couple weeks away from total kitchen demo, then we will have only 2 rooms to live/sleep in! I plan on being outside a lot with the kids! Thank goodness it is summertime!

Oh yes, what to do with all that stuff when you have to move out of your rooms. We have our couch and the piano in the masterbedroom as we speak. Luckily, we have a garage but....

I wish my husband would have agreed to POD. It would have made the rooms less crowded but he did not agree to it. (since he would have done most of the heavy lifting, I just let it go.) He is cheap in ways that make absolutely no sense. He also spends more than necessary on many things.

Sometimes, you just gotta go with the flow in a marriage....

I have the same problem. The garage is already full, and there are no basements in SoCal homes (sure wish there were). Not sure how the Pod thing works. Is it a temporary storage shed you keep at your own house, or do they take it away and store it for you? We have a backyard patio with grill where I plan to do most of the cooking during remodel. But I also need to set up the expresso maker and MW somewhere. I can't survive w/o lots of expresso.

We have the everything from the kitchen and laundry room wedged into our dining room (except the old fridge, that sits proudly in the living room. ) No garage. "Temporary kitchen" is on the dining table that is shoved against the wall. I'm keeping the washer/dryer so they're in there too. It's not pretty, but my husband didn't want a pod. I'm pretending we're camping. Frame of mind is important in this situation! On the plus side, my Sunday morning routine is to watch "Meet The Press" and clean the kitchen-so I had a very relaxing morning.

With PODS, you can either fill it and leave it at your house, or they will take it to a storage facility and then re-deliver it when you are ready to unpack. The nice thing is that you only have to pack and unpack it once, unlike a traditional storage facility. Also, if you can leave it on your property somewhere, you can enter it if you need something. We have town rules about leaving such things on the street, and we already had the dumpster all those months, so we had them store it at their facility.

You talked me into it! I was trying to avoid paying for one, but I think a temporary storage unit will be cheaper than (a) therapy for all of us and/or (b) rehab for stress drinking. I figured out that we had room for either us or our stuff. Not both.

Oh, and I wish we could send the kiddos off to relatives. Unfortunately, we don't have that option. I really wish we did though!