House renovating a life is a memoir of erica bauermeister's experience renovating an edwardian home. Bauermeisters other works include the school of essential ingredients, a cookbook about an ingredient-based recipe. For more information on house less...  Read More

It still contains her pleasant way of capturing things, but being a story based in fact, it has a trajectory that is a bit harder to anticipate. There is also a great deal of credit give to other people who influenced her thoughts and decisions.

From tid bits on architecture, psychology to even some of bill bryson’s work and commentary on houses. It is full of wonderful imagery, from the trials and tribulations of construction.

The book is too wordy for me and kind of jumps around to other topics. Not enough focus on the house, too much about the author's personal life. Do these people really love old houses? They rip out the fireplace, rip out stairs, move all the windows.