{"id":139277,"date":"2023-09-22T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-knew-moving-and-renovating-while-parenting-would-be-hard-it-was\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:19:13","slug":"i-knew-moving-and-renovating-while-parenting-would-be-hard-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-knew-moving-and-renovating-while-parenting-would-be-hard-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew moving and renovating while parenting would be hard. It was"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDuring her five-month renovation, Kelly Eng learned how to play Tradie Tetris and discovered wisdom in the \u2018unattainable triangle\u2019Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWe had to move home. It\u2019s never fun, is it? So we decided to minimise the stress by finding somewhere close. We bought an apartment 15 metres up the hallway. The new abode was, in real estate agent parlance, a renovator\u2019s dream. Or, as others pointed out, parts of it resembled a public toilet. It needed a serious spruce and we had five months to do it.I knew moving and renovating, while working and parenting, would be challenging (it was). But surely there was plenty of time and there\u2019d be many eager tradespeople ready to help us transform the apartment (there weren\u2019t). But many lessons were learned, which I will share in the hope of helping others. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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