Your Complete Guide to Managing Your Own Renovation

Budget tracker, trade briefs, product selections, work schedule and the step-by-step guide to tie it all together. Join the waitlist and be first to get it.

The reno juggle is real: Budgets, selections, trades, schedules and deliveries.

And somewhere in there, cooking dinner in the laundry and showering under the garden hose.

Most renovations don't blow out because one tradie overcharged. They blow out because one late trade holds up the next, a decision gets made at 11pm the night before the tiler arrives, or a quote that looked like a bargain turns out to be missing half the job.

You don't need to know how to lay a tile. You need a plan, and someone who's been there to show you the order things happen in.

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What's inside...

Everything you need to run your own renovation project.

Your Complete Guide

The whole renovation, stage by stage and trade by trade, so you always know what happens next (and why).

✔ The correct order to book your trades, from demolition to final clean

✔ What has to be finished before each trade can start (and the wait times in between)

✔ How to set your budget, manage payments and keep a contingency

✔ Where to spend, where to save and which DIY jobs are actually worth it

Budget Tracker and Project Work Schedule

Tracks Budget, Quoted, Committed, Paid and Remaining, plus a trade sequence schedule that books your trades in the right order.

✔ See what you've paid, what you've committed and what's still to come

✔ Track costs room by room and trade by trade

✔ A ready-made Gantt chart that maps your trade sequence week by week

✔ Delivery dates sit alongside trade dates, so products arrive before they're needed

Trade Brief Template

Fill it out once, send it to three trades, and finally get quotes you can actually compare.

✔ Covers the scope, products, dimensions and who supplies what

✔ Spells out what needs to be done before they arrive and before they leave

✔ Fewer "oh, I thought you wanted..." moments and surprise variations

Product Selections Addenda

Every tap, tile and handle recorded in one place, room by room, before demolition day.

✔ Brand, product name, code, colour and price for every selection

✔ One document to hand every trade, so they know exactly what they're installing

✔ No more choosing tiles at 11pm the night before the tiler arrives

Home Extension Guide

The extra approvals, trades and sequencing that come with building new structure.

✔ The pre-construction steps in order: site survey, soil test, plans, engineering and approvals

✔ The full construction sequence, from slab to handover

✔ A 60-step trade checklist you can trim down to suit your project

This is for you if...

You're planning a renovation or extension and want to manage it yourself (or keep a close eye on your trades)
You've never project-managed a build and don't know where to start
You want to stay on budget and know where every dollar is going
You'd rather spend your money on the finishes than on trades waiting around
You want your house back sooner

We're Jess and Kris.

We've learnt the hard way so you don't have to.

Jess has spent her career in preconstruction: construction coordinator, prestart consultant and contract administrator. Kris is a carpenter turned building construction manager.

Together we've renovated our own home, made plenty of mistakes, and helped homeowners avoid making the same ones.

This toolkit is everything we know about running a renovation, put into one place so you can renovate with confidence (and maybe even enjoy it).

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Frequently asked questions

#1

Is it just for big renovations?

Nope. Even a single bathroom has more trades and moving parts than most people expect. The toolkit works for one room or the whole house.

#2

I'm doing an extension. Is this for me?

Yes. There's a dedicated Home Extension Guide covering site surveys, soil tests, approvals and the full construction sequence

#3

Do I need any building experience?

Not at all. It isn't a trade skills course. It's the project management side: planning, budgeting, briefing and scheduling.

#4

What format is it?

Downloadable documents that you can customise and edit to suit your renovation project.

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