Yeah definitely will get a toaster oven if I get into making more projects. Can probably mod it with a micro controller to turn it on/off to match proper reflow profiles.
If you have an oven, you will need a cheap non-contact thermometer (and they're fiun/useful for other things too). But if you have a non-contact thermometer, you have all the equipment required for the saucepan+sand method.
Ovens are beneficial if you are doing many boards, but they require a heck of a lot of fiddling to get repeatable results.
Saucepan+sand is quick, cheap, and easy for the odd board. You have to stand over it and watch the temperature creep up, but you'll be doing that with an oven anyway.
Whatever you choose, you'll have to do a few experiments to feel satisfied with your technique - but that was true for bog-standard soldering as well!
Bite the bullet: get tweezers, solder paste, a flux pen, components (lots, since they disappear like fleas
), a head magnifying visor, and a saucepan. That lot will cost less than $50, and you're off.