Remodeling is simply surviving

Sometimes this do-it-yourself remodeling stuff is simply about surviving it.

After many years and MANY projects, you'd think I'd have some great tips, wouldn't you?

You'd be wrong.

My best advice for surviving a bathroom remodeling, for example, is have another bathroom.

My best advice for surviving a kitchen remodeling is eat out.

(Actually, it's "have another kitchen," but I'll get to that.)

My neighbors set out as summer was turning into fall to refinish their living room floor.

That doesn't sound too bad, does it?

Some sanding, some patching, some cleaning, some varnishing. It'll be work, sure, but nothing intrepid do-it-yourselfers can't handle.

Until they were standing there looking at those cabinets and chairs and couches and big-screen TVs and realized every room in the house already was full.

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Remodeling is simply surviving