Demo. Demo Forever: Daniel Kanter’s post on renovating his house is spot-on for anyone stuck in the middle of renovating. Example “One of the side effects of renovating an old house, I’ve found, is the way my brain has come to toggle between the absurd optimism I feel before a project begins and the extreme despair I experience when my ideas about how things will be collide with the reality of how things actually are.” From Manhattan Nest.