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The home improvement boom is far from finished, but it’s changing.
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Rather than embarking on DIY adventures, homeowners are increasingly tapping pros for big projects.
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Experts say that with a tight housing market the spending spree is unlikely to end anytime soon.
As many Millennials are wont to do when embarking on a project for the first time, Alex Strunce and Hayley Swanson turn to YouTube.
But when it comes to renovations on the mid-century ranch house the couple bought this summer in Madison, Wisconsin, things are not always as easy as they seem on the internet.
“It’s like a three-minute video and I’m sitting there like 45 minutes later, and I’m like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing,'” Strunce said.
Strunce and Swanson told Insider they consider themselves extremely capable DIYers, even as their foray into homeownership tests those limits.
“Our first gamble was with the kitchen cabinets,” Swanson said. “Even just…
