SUBURBAN SUPERDAD
When ‘WORK FROM HOME’ prompts
‘RENOVATE THE HOME’
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fter this past year, there are certain concepts a great many of us would not shed a tear to see disappear from our lives and vocabulary, forever.
But no matter how you feel about it, one element of the age of COVID-19 that will likely remain? Working from home. As a work-from-home hipster who ditched the commute before it was cool, I had long wondered why the idea had not grown more in popularity. What’s not to like about being able to just push back from the desk on a warm and sunny day in early June? Or, wake up one snowy morning and simply remark, “Oh, it snowed last night,” without worrying about local road conditions? But when COVID-19 forced so many to take the plunge, the sudden change clearly showed many had no plans for how to balance work and life, when work and life must share the same few hundred square feet of indoor living space. That’s why another trend will likely continue for a long while: redesigning and expanding that indoor living space.
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Just like working from home, such renovations turn out to be something I know a bit about, as one who recently starred, unexpectedly, as project manager in our own home version of “Love It or List It.” So, with the experience of our home addition project still relatively fresh in my mind, allow me to share a few tips to help you more successfully navigate your own construction projects.
HOME & LIFESTYLE MAY 2021
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