Renovation stress builds a range of emotions
Posted by Steve Harmer on
As many have said, renovations can be a lot like giving birth!
They’re painful, they make you want to scream, and cause you to ask yourself why you’re bearing the brunt of all the work. And yet, you love the result and often end up repeating the whole thing.
Houzz.com’s Remodeling & Relationships Survey of Canadian users, conducted online this past December and January, found a number of issues that caused pain, including the fact that:
- 18% made a significant design decision without telling their partner
- 8% snuck away to catch a break
- 9% neglected to mention the price of something.
Those are the little white lies of the fixer-upper set, but in a number of cases, things got even worse:
- 5% admitted to secretly throwing…
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