The worst part of most remodels isn't the cost or even the noise. It's the sense that your house has been handed over to strangers and you'll get it back whenever they're finished. Almost all of that is avoidable, and none of the fixes are complicated.
It starts before demo day. Materials get ordered and staged first, because a job that stalls waiting on a cabinet delivery stalls with your kitchen already torn out. Cabinets, tile, fixtures and counters all have different lead times, and sequencing them is the single biggest factor in whether the schedule holds.
Containment is next. Plastic at the doorways with a zipper, floor protection on the whole path in and out, and the HVAC returns in the work zone sealed so the dust doesn't tour the rest of the house through the ductwork. This costs a contractor an hour and saves you a month of finding grit on the countertops.
For bathrooms, the question everyone forgets to ask is which one you'll be using. If it's the only full bath, that changes the sequence: the shower gets waterproofed, tiled and back in service before the vanity and finish work, rather than everything happening at once. Say so up front and a good crew will plan around it.
Then there's the daily rhythm. Tools packed up, floors swept, and the working path clear at the end of every day, so the house is yours in the evening even while it's a job site in the morning. Ask about that in the estimate conversation. How a contractor answers tells you more about the next five weeks than the price does.