Better by design
When buying a house that needs a little or a lot of work to make your own, the greatest renovating skill you can bring to the table is patience. The patience to sit with the dubious design decisions of the previous owners and get a feel for how you can make better ones. The patience to learn how the house flows before you start impulsively knocking things down and ripping things out, and risk ending up with renovator’s regret. The patience to trial and error your way through learning
