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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm very interested in this conceptually. Do you think about your house as a home, a refuge, a place where you find safe harbor and part of that/wrapped up in that is having a certain kind of aesthetic experience (beauty to look at in a style you find pleasing, comfort, functionality, storage so clutter is gone and thus facilitates a certain kind of cleanliness or order)? Or do you not care, find your house to be a functional thing (roof overhead, moderately climate controlled, places to do basic functions, etc.), but it's really a commodity you will use and then transfer (for profit hopefully) to someone else when you move/downsize/die? That seems to be a basic divide. [/quote]
I don't think it is.  My home is my refuse and comfortable space, but that doesn't mean I need it a certain "aesthetic experience" that requires particular kinds of renovations or updating things every so many years.  Maybe the divide is between people who need an aesthetic experience consistent with ever-changing trends and those who don't.[/quote]

Interesting. But renovations don't just happen for "keeping up with trends." I note here a number of people stating their houses are functional and they don't care to spend the money to update. Frequent posts about renovations on DCUM are about how poorly-functional houses are (and often coupled with they spent a boatload on the land/house and have no money to improve it, despite it being very dated, poorly functioning for 2020s, not 1960s, living, and having tons of deferred maintenance). I also note a thread from a month or two ago where someone posed the question about the best and worst financial decisions others had made. There were a notable number of posters who said that buying the "stretch house" or doing the major renovation so that their house was beautiful to them and functional for their family was worth every penny. I would totally agree about the waste of funds to just update because House Beautiful tells you cabinet colors just changed, but not for these latter reasons. [/quote]

Agreed. Sometimes it’s not very functional or just it’s unpleasant to live in. Our kitchen was too small to properly make meals for the whole family. It worked, but it stressed me out to never have enough counter space.[/quote]

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