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Top Notch

Courtesy of Dwell

A seemingly small renovation consumes a couple's life, devouring their reserves of time, money, and sanity. But as San Francisco residents Lisa Koshkarian and Tom DiFrancesco found in their third-floor addition, it doesn't have to be that way.

Tom Hanks is not known for horror films, but his 1986 flop, The Money Pit, has a terrifying premise: A seemingly small renovation consumes a couple's life, devouring their reserves of time, money, and sanity with nightmare contractors, intractable plumbing problems, and general calamity-like Boston's Big Dig project in a living room. But as San Francisco residents Lisa Koshkarian and Tom DiFrancesco found in their third-floor addition, it doesn't have to be that way. With a thoughtful architect and good communication they opened up a whole new vista by building upward.

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