The landlord, Margaret Streicker Porres, chose simple words that anyone who has ever been sucked into a renovation-from-hell could surely echo: "This has been an unfolding process".
Normally, a designer would see a renovation through from concept to completion, being sure that as problems arise, what is built is in keeping with the original design.
"Hundreds of people signed a petition asking for the old houses to be flattened instead," said Akbar Arezugar, 54, a renovation supervisor from Kashan.
Part of their roof is leaking, but they cannot get a renovation grant from the council because the roof is not bad enough for the "serious disrepair" category.
Leaping from the cab in her Los Angeles gear -- shorts, grubby shirt and sandals -- she picked her way over construction debris from a renovation in progress next door.
RESTAURANT 1915 AND BLUE ROOF TAPAS BAR AT BEAR MOUNTAIN INN This historic property, in heavy logs and stone, emerges from a renovation with the restaurant open for dinner Wednesday to Sunday.
The steeple wasn't added until 1828 and the carillon clock, which unlike the rest of the church is not a city landmark, dates from a renovation after a catastrophic 1978 fire.
The arrangement lasted until 2006, when a friend, the British fine arts photographer Damion Berger, had a vision for the underutilized West Broadway studio and proposed a grandiose renovation from which they could both benefit financially.
The Kirov Ballet will perform Mihail Chemiakin's somewhat darker interpretation at the Kennedy Center Opera House, which reopened this month after a $20 million renovation, from Dec. 23 to 28.
