HouseWorks: Remodeling is simply surviving

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

After many years and MANY projects, youd think Id have some great tips, wouldnt you?

Youd 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, its have another kitchen, but Ill get to that.)

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

That doesnt sound too bad, does it?

Some sanding, some patching, some cleaning, some varnishing. Itll be work, sure, but nothing intrepid do-it-yourselfers cant 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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HouseWorks: Remodeling is simply surviving