A contractor or building design specialist likely would agree that it is easier to build a new structure than remodel an old one. Buildings usually decline into functional obsolescence after a period of use if not updated or modernized to current standards. Construction teems with positive energy. The smell of fresh sawdust suggests the promise of a completed project, sparkling and new at the end. Reconstruction acknowledges the existence of something worth salvaging. It carefully honors the remaining life within a structure, regardless of its condition. In grief, that structure is your very life.