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Home projects, not for the faint of heart

Home projects. It is a phrase that many homeowners dread. Don’t get me wrong, I understand having a "home project" means I have a home. A lot of people who cannot afford a house and actually want one would love to bear the burden of having such a cross as a “home project.” They might envision a couple wearing their flannel shirts and jeans with a bandanna on their heads, working together with a TV sitcom comedic style. Laughing and joking as they delve deeper in their project, growing closer as a couple by the end of the half hour it takes to do the project. And once the project is done and it looks spectacular, like only Hollywood carpentry can portray, they cuddle up on the couch, all the more closer in their relationship for their trials. This is so far from reality it might as well be in another galaxy. I have no idea how any of the writers come up with a fantasy of couples working together on a project and no one is cussing or threat of divorce among them. Because that