But while she regarded the house as "a masterpiece," Tervooren "saw a house like any other but with paint colors I’d never choose." Tervooren realized that he, too, had fallen victim to the IKEA effect on various occasions: "I had a special bond with my old car because I always worked on it myself. And when my iPhone broke down last year, I pulled it apart and learned to fix it so I could keep using it."[7]