Diary of a Compulsive Renovator

An architect explores the phenomenon he knows all too well: When your home-improvement ambitions outnumber your achievements by an exponential degree.
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This story was published in Dwell’s April 2009 issue.

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Dan Maginn
Dan Maginn is an architect with DRAW Architecture + Urban Design. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and son, in a cantankerous old terra-cotta-colored house.​

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