Sentence examples for why renovating from inspiring English sources

But he spoke by phone with a reporter about the pleasures and anxieties of fixing up a home and why renovating is a thoroughly American endeavor.

"My argument, and the argument of quite a few architectural historians, is: Why renovate such a monument?" said Norbert Frei, a historian at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.

Why is renovating homes still punished by the VAT system while new build is VAT-free?

"So I thought, why not renovate and use it as a pied-à-terre?" He enlisted the help of Scott Specht and Louise Harpman, architects he had collaborated with in the past.

That's why the renovated Tigre Art Museum, with its stunningly ornate 1912 promenade, shares the riverfront with a creepy abandoned mansion that could be home to an Argentinian Norman Bates.

But opponents of the demolition started legal maneuvers, and this past February, the Connecticut Superior Court issued a temporary injunction preventing demolition until Mr. Handrinos, 66, can prove why an alternative, renovating the house as a bed and breakfast, for example, is not "feasible and prudent".

"That's why we could renovate and not ruin the marriage".

But in renovating the visitors center, why showcase the pornography that mayors, governors and developers worked for decades to dispossess?

One of Clarke's key themes is why Britain is still demolishing houses,instead of renovating them.

When we finally got around to renovating the family room 10 years ago, we wondered why we had waited so long.

WHY NOW Ms. Meidell and Mr. Birch got married after 12 1/2 years together and after renovating their Lefferts Gardens home.