New build vs. renovation?

[Blakeyboy1]

Don't forget to consider the environmental costs of the waste. It may not affect you financially (at least in the short-term) but all that old material has to go somewhere. <wink>

I am a trained interior designer and have some architecture experience as well so I have been guilty of disposing old to make room for new too but it never hurts to look at the greenest possible option (which may actually be a new, better built structure). If you can spend a few extra dollars to do the right thing.

-Blake
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