How home renovations threaten marriages
It’s been two years since the paint dried on Victoria Barnes and Paul Keifrider’s top-to-bottom, almost entirely DIY renovation of their Victorian house outside Philadelphia — but the angst of the process still feels a little fresh.
“He didn’t want to wait for a plan. He just wanted to start,” Barnes says of her husband’s impatience for fleshing out the details of a project before swinging a hammer.
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“I could be working on something and I’m 35 percent through, and then Victoria will come in the room and [say] ‘Let’s do it this way now,’” laments Keifrider.
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