Demolition

People are right. It is hard to build a house. Even once you've got it built, you're constantly trying to tweak it. Change the windows, put in new carpeting, knock this wall down, knock that wall down, put that wall up, add stairs here, add a window there, push the yard back further, bring the yard in, paint the outside, paint the inside, add a garage, fill the garage with boxes so you have to add a driveway for the cars. It can sometimes seem like the house just isn't right. Sometime you can work so hard on it that all you see anymore are the individual corrections you've made, but not the house as a whole anymore. You see the scratches in the paint over there, the new floorboard in the hallway, the patched roof, the basketball hoop in the back yard. You see all the changes, one piled on top of the other, but just don't recognize the house anymore. And the harder you try to make it into the house you've dreamed of, the more it takes another shape. It is at this point that you realize that only thing left to do is knock the foundation out from under it and start over again.

I'm not saying this is what you should do or what one should always do. I'm just saying that sometimes it's the only thing left to do.