Last month, I was quietly working on a five-part series.
It starts tomorrow.
After decades of working with homeowners, I’ve noticed something that happens long before the first cabinet is ordered or the first wall comes down.
We often begin researching solutions before we’ve fully understood the problems we’re trying to solve.
And that can lead us to spend a great deal of time, energy, and money pursuing improvements that may not deliver what we really need.
I’m using kitchen remodeling as the example in this series, but these questions apply to nearly every major home decision—from remodeling a bathroom or building an addition to deciding whether to renovate or move.
Over the next five weeks, we’ll explore five questions:
What if your kitchen doesn’t need what you think it needs? Are you researching solutions before understanding the real problem?
What makes a kitchen remodel expensive? Is it how much you spend, or whether the investment delivers what you needed?
Is every frustration worth fixing? How do you decide which problems deserve your money and attention?
Whose idea of value are you paying for? Are you making your own investment decisions, or adopting the priorities of the professionals you hire?
What if there were a better way to begin? What changes when you evaluate your problems, options, and potential returns before choosing a project?
These are questions that don’t get answered by researching remodeling costs, collecting inspiration photographs, or interviewing contractors.
Yet they’re some of the most important questions homeowners face.
We’ve built an entire industry around helping homeowners execute their decisions, but very little around helping them determine which decisions are worth making.
That’s the gap this series explores.
I’ll be publishing one article in the series each Thursday, beginning tomorrow, November 5.
Whether you’re planning a remodel or simply know something about your home needs to change, I hope these articles introduce a few questions you haven’t considered—and possibilities you may not have explored.
Clarity Before Commitment.
Cynthia
