Advice: Wife’s renovation anxiety
We bought a pandemic flip house 5 years ago. It wasn’t a terrible flip but the kitchen is really showing wear and you can clearly see where the flippers cut corners. Tiles are broken in multiple places, cabinetry is splitting in certain places and some of the doors are coming off the hinges (they clearly screwed the hinges in a few times and destroyed the wood behind and filled), moldings are not matched and rough, not fine finished wood was used and the knots bled through the paint because it wasn’t primed. And finally the appliances are falling apart too. So we decided we would renovate the kitchen. We also decided to renovate the third floor with a dormer to add a walk in closet, bigger bathroom and create an office space.
This is not a small renovation but we talked about it for a while and we went ahead and got plans drawn and we are in the process of choosing a contractor. My wife recently tells me she has been loosing sleep because of the thought of the renovation and is starting to have real reservations about it. She definitely doesn’t love change and that is playing a big part of the anxiety. I want to do the renovation but don’t want to put any undue stress on her. But it also feels a bit immature. I will add, we have owned a couple of homes together and have never done a major renovation. Any thoughts or advice about this would be appreciated.