After some major renovation mishaps, this couple is finally at home

That whole hilarious-in-hindsight thing doesn’t apply to house renovations. There’s nothing funny about messing up one’s biggest investment. Or litigation. Or finding another contractor to fix the myriad problems.

So, despite sitting in a lovely, expertly renovated and added-to house today, Lindsay Brown frowns as she recounts not one horror story, but two. Or was it three? Shortly after moving, alone, into her charming, gabled, 1928 house in the New Toronto section of Etobicoke, she had a crew come in to finish her basement.