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Send Us Your Home-Renovation Horror Stories

Sure, the house don’t fall when the bones are good, but what if the bones are outdated? Or ugly? Or rotting? Working from home has got us itching to make some changes in our homes, and, frankly, a fresh coat of paint or stick-on wallpaper just won’t cut it. And for some of us, we’re looking to start from the ground-up. 

So we’re asking you, dear readers, to send us your advice for our home build. What went wrong? What went right? What did you wish you’d known before you started your own project? And do you have photos? Send all of that our way.

Just fill out our online form and we may put your story, your pearls of hard-earned wisdom, and your tales of lucky breaks in our spring issue. 










Catherine Wendlandt
Catherine Wendlandt
A native Austinite, Catherine Wendlandt spent almost six years in the Midwest for college and graduate school at the University of Missouri (MIZ). While there, she talked about Texas and missed queso so much she had to come back.  In school, she worked as a city government reporter and page designer for the Columbia Missourian, a communications intern at a local jazz company, a food editor and later the managing editor at Vox Magazine, and a research assistant for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She's worked in Missouri, Dallas, and Barcelona, Spain, and interned for Houstonia in 2018, when she fell in love with everything about the city, except maybe the traffic and mosquitos.  When she's not at work, you can find Catherine curled up reading a good book, out exploring local parks, taking lots of sunset pictures, and trying to pet every dog she sees (in spite of the allergies).