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Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @Ria22. We're pleased to have you join us and trust you'll get lots of helpful advice and project inspiration from our wonderful community members.
One of our resident Bunnings D.I.Y. experts Mitch recently wrote a guide that should be very helpful to you: How to budget for a home renovation. You can also check out these helpful guides: How to plan a kitchen renovation and How to plan a bathroom renovation.
The key is careful planning and breaking the tasks down into manageable projects so you don't get too overwhelmed.
Hope that helps,
Jason
Congratulations @Ria22 on your new place 
Exciting times ahead! Trying to work out where to start and maxing out the thought process in doing it all at once is something we all do
I approach it a little differently to the way @JacobZ has mentioned
- Rooms that you need for the house to run.
- Kitchen, mine is old and has been old for the past decade. Slated to get done next.
- Bathrrom, functional but ceiling has water damage issues, no water leaks.
- Toilet, I have 2, one in the bathroom. One in the laundry.
- Bedrooms
- Loungeroom
- Garage
- Flooring
Outside
- Pool
- Sewage
- Stormwater
- Gutters
Life moves along and I found that as things happened and my focus would shift to repairing the issue/s and that would flow onto the other sections mentioned above. My sewage repair cascaded into stormwater repair and then gutter repair lol As one part was fixed others would show up.
I have reovated my loungeroom and one spare room, laundry. Also had those sections fo the timber floor sanded and varnished. The sanding and bringing up nicely meant that those rooms were renovated to finish off the areas.
Now that I want my kitchen to be started, I have just repaired my loungeroom floor as it steps into the diningroom and then the kitchen. Those two rooms are going to be redone together.
With your new place Think of the rooms that can be afforded to be out of action for a period of time, add an extra 20% of the time as it will be longer especially if you have not done renovations before.
Kitchen can be shifted to elsewhere with a portable stove/hotplate. Microwave is your best friend.
Bathroom, that will take awhile and probarly be costly if you redo the lot. Bathing in the laundry is a potential swap but cold in winter.
Toilet, a porta potty may need to be hired.
As @JacobZ has mentioned, painting is last, tho that said I have painted my spare room and lounge but not the hall. I have some holes that need to be fixed first.
When you get a trade in to do whatever part of the work that needs to be done, ask them if they know anyone they recommend for the other parts, plumbing, sparky, carpenter, (if you are happy with the work the trade is doing ) this way you will end up with a pool of trades for work that will show up for sure. Break down the house into doable sections like a jigsaw puzzle, then work away on that corner or wall first.
Dave
