Five stages Denial. Home improvements are necessary, essential, its well-known, an universal truth. Anger.

The house is full of junk, trash, full of people and noise. Bargaining. They are nuisance, but once they are over one is satisfied with the result. Depression. So they say, its hard to imagine with so much delays, because there are always delays, for no apparent reason, but there are always delays. Acceptance. Maybe its because they last so much, they do, that one gets used to them, not as far as acceptance, just gets used. And, in the middle of that getting used, one ends up seeing their point.