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The Designer-Builder Readiness Scorecard
Beyond decorating: your roadmap to becoming a professional designer-builder. A 10-minute self-assessment that finds the gaps design school never covered, and shows you which one to close first.
- Score yourself across six areas of designer-builder practice
- Design principles, construction documents, budgeting, contracts and project management
- Practical exercises to strengthen one skill this week
- Real-project example: a fire-damaged restaurant restored as a catering facility
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The Contractor Vetting Checklist
Before you sign anything, make them prove it. Use one checklist per contractor and verify everything in writing before you sign or pay.
- Step 1: What to verify (license, liability insurance, workers' comp, references)
- Step 2: Reference check questions
- Step 3: The 5 non-negotiable interview questions
- Step 4: Red flags. Walk away if you see these
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The Renovation Planning Checklist
Plan the right decisions in the right order. Use this one-page checklist to see what still needs attention before you hire a contractor or begin construction.
- 8 stages, from problems & scope to preparing for construction
- Space planning, design development, budgeting and estimating
- Your project team, contracts & agreements, schedule
- Built on the 80/20 rule: 80% planning, 20% construction
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The complete renovation planning guide & workbook
The checklists show you what to plan. The 58-page guide shows you how: sequencing, contractor vetting and budgeting, with workbook exercises and a renovation estimate template.