Before & After: In Austin, a New Life Out West Starts With a First Remodel for $176K
“When you have a beginner’s mind, you don’t know what you don’t know.”
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"When I first started my career, I was in the military for a while and was deployed several times, and that was for sure exhausting," recalls Amber Schleuning, who’s reminiscing about what surprised her the most about remodeling her own home in an eight-month stint starting in 2019. "But this was also very, very exhausting, and I did not expect it to be."
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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