the.com/remodeling
The art of spending twice your budget to live exactly where you already lived, but nicer.
means The process of rebuilding or reconfiguring a structure's design, layout, or fixtures, usually to improve or update it.
from Built from 're-' ('again') plus 'model,' which traces back through French to Latin 'modulus,' a diminutive of 'modus' meaning measure or manner. 'Model' originally meant a small representation or standard made to a particular measure — so to remodel is literally to reshape something against a new measure or pattern, long before it meant knocking out a kitchen wall.
- timeline math
- double the estimate, then add six weeks
- true cost
- always discovered after demolition, never before
- hidden driver
- often triggered by one hated light fixture
- marriage test
- tile selection reveals more than therapy does