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"They're more into renovation than sales," Fordew said.

He said the facility needed far more renovation than he had anticipated.

"Because it is so small," Ms. Medina-Seabright said, "we can do a nicer renovation than we could afford to do if we had bought a house".

But there is more to the highway renovation than good neighbourliness: China wants access to Pakistan's Gwadar port.A deep-water port strategically situated at the mouth of the Persian Gulf in Baluchistan province, Gwadar opened in 2008.

It used to have a room attached that we called the PowWow, but it needed more renovation than my dad was willing to undertake, so it's gone to the great PowWow in the sky.

Tenants, he explained, want to be able to see outside, and there will be more of them after the renovation than now, with switching equipment currently occupying more space than it eventually will.

His sculptures are the largest pieces yet to be shown at the center, thanks to a recent expansion and renovation that more than doubled its exhibition space.

So why would the prizewinning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron take on the Park Avenue Armory, a project that is more restoration than renovation, more fixer-upper than fresh take?

Many homeowners take a more active hand in these renovations than they would in a conventional project.

Other dishes are less wholesale renovations than clever sidesteps: a scarlet-runner-bean risotto that mimics the voluptuousness of refried beans and rice; carnitas in the form of a pork-belly-and-cheek terrine, dotted with rhubarb purée.

But if you are affluent, you might do better by borrowing against your home to pay for renovations than by drawing down your savings.