Sentence examples for Modest renovations from inspiring English sources

It has exactly what she wanted: character, but modest renovations.

This study found that even modest renovations like painting the space a lighter colour have a noticeable impact on the light received by a moving sensor.

Secretary Clinton, a 1947 English Tudor, has undergone modest renovations in recent years, adding a touch of Mid-Century modern to her basic A-frame giving her a classic contemporary look.

It was given a modest renovation, which cost $10,000.

Initially, museum-watchers expected her to hover at the baseline, presiding over a modest renovation of the landmarked Hayden Planetarium.

After a modest renovation last year, mostly to its aged kitchen, it reopened in January under a new proprietor, Wilson Tang, a nephew of the previous owner.

Instead, he sold the building last month to Korman Communities, an operator of long-term-stay hotels, for $88 million, after a modest renovation was completed.

In one corner of this once-great port city, on the other end of Ferry Avenue from where with great fanfare public officials operated bulldozers last February to begin demolition of drug dens, a modest renovation project is under way.

Friends suggested that the government was at fault for failing to cover the rather modest renovation costs as it was supposed to, but that Mrs. Olmedo refused to make any public statements that might hurt her political relationships or cast her as too stingy to foot the bill.

Factor in a newcomer accused of exceeding the scope of his construction permits and what set out to be a modest renovation morphed into a case study of the risks in running afoul of historic district building codes.

In public testimony before the landmarks commission, some speakers opposed any changes to the exterior of the society's landmark building at 170 Central Park West, but in April 2007, after rejecting an initial proposal, the commission approved the society's request to conduct a more modest exterior renovation.