He credits a healthy diet for his vitality as he walks into the charcoal-gray kitchen that he renovated himself, adding a Bosch dishwasher.
"Four new buildings have gone up in a four block radius of here, and there are a lot of young professionals moving in," he said, as he finished scraping the baseboards of the shop, which he renovated himself.
Bilal lives in his RV, which he renovated himself.
He renovated it himself while living in the basement.
As part of their commitment to staying, she said, they recently hired an architect to transform their four-bedroom two-bath house, which they bought for $425,000 and which Mr. Prangenberg had originally renovated by himself, into an arts-and-crafts-style home.
Whenever Mr. Kaplan saw a resale in an older building, he found himself renovating it in his head.
Smiley threw himself into renovating the house in Sebec, doing most of the work himself, and started a small café and grocery in the town's former general store.
Just across the street, Thomas Hunsaker, 38, a tile contractor renovating a house, called himself "a moderate conservative" and confessed that after he watched part of this week's debate, "Gore scares me, where he'd take the country".
We mentioned earlier that Whewell thought of himself as renovating Bacon's inductive philosophy.
Mr. Weinrich renovated the space himself, refinishing the maple floors, mounting fluorescent fixtures to the tin ceiling and erecting crisp white walls.
