My Sweetie and I are hunting for our first house to buy together. We found a "keeper" that needs a bit of fixing up. So it was with great interest that I read the Furniture Guy's recent post on "people and their houses." Full post here. Rant about "maintenance free" renovation here:
"Everyone searches for a free lunch. But there is no free lunch in a house. Only a direction. Or, more to the point, there are only two directions, better or worse. You are never at rest. Most everything I see touted for installation in a house touts as its prime characteristic that it never need maintenance. That's the "tell." If you ever see the term "never needs maintenance" again, substitute the word "disposable," because that's what it is. It never needs maintenance right up until you throw it away in an angry fit, 100 years before things that need maintenance are getting warmed up."
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