the.com/home improvement
the art of turning a saturday into a lifelong negotiation with a wall.
means the ongoing project of upgrading a house through repair, renovation, or decoration, usually costing double the estimate.
from the phrase entered american vocabulary in the postwar boom, when suburban homeownership exploded and hardware stores like home depot (founded 1978) turned diy from necessity into hobby, then identity.
average project overrunmost renovations exceed budget by 15 to 20 percent
tv effectthe 1991 sitcom made tim allen synonymous with power tools
biggest roigarage door replacement returns over 100 percent at resale
divorce triggercouples cite renovation stress as a top relationship strain
for instance
home depot — founded 1978, now over 2,300 stores worldwide
chip and joanna gaines — turned waco, texas into a fixer upper pilgrimage site
extreme makeover home edition — rebuilt entire houses in seven days on national tv
levittown — 1947 mass-produced suburb that made owning and improving a home the american default