The Renovation Kit

Every room, every trade, every quote and every dollar, in one notebook that survives a building site.

Renovations rarely go wrong in one dramatic way. They go wrong through a hundred small verbal agreements that nobody wrote down. The Renovation Kit puts the whole project on paper: a page per room or trade, a page per site conversation, and the money, all in a book that works with dusty hands and no signal.

Pre-order: this kit ships about December 10, 2026. Free shipping on US orders of $75 or more.

Everything you need to start

A Project Tracker page for every room or trade, Meeting Summary pages so no site conversation lives only in somebody's memory, and a Monthly Budget and Weekly Budget Tracker for the money. Weekly AM/PM sheets show who is on site when, the 2027/2028 calendar holds lead times and stage payments, and Inspiration pages collect the decisions you will be asked to make on the spot. Ruled pages are for the working-out, dotted pages for measurements and layouts, with sticky flags for what is live this week.

A setup you can customize over time

Every page except the calendar is undated, so you start whenever the job starts, and a quiet month waiting on permits costs you nothing. Pages lift off the discs, so you can take the plumbing section to a supplier and leave the rest at home. More project and meeting pages are available in the store as the job grows.

The system behind the pages

Building work eats everything: your evenings, your weekends, your kitchen, and eventually the parts of life that have nothing to do with the house. Your Perfect Notebook already includes the Big Blocks Dashboard for the next two weeks of the build and the personal half for the rest of your life, the Daily Task Manager for each day, and the Reflection Page for an honest line on what moved and how you are both coping.

Why the kit, and not just the notebook

• A written record changes how carefully people quote. A notebook with a visibly kept record puts something on the table that a phone never does.
• Every site conversation gets a page. Action items with an owner and a date, written while you are still standing there, then read back before you leave. Thirty seconds, and it is the highest-value habit in the kit.
• Variations get written down the moment they are agreed. What changed, who asked, what it adds, who is paying. A variation that exists only in a conversation will be remembered differently by the two people who had it.
• It works where renovation happens. No signal, no charge, dusty hands, a builder who needs an answer now.
• The dependencies are visible. The window lead time decides the plastering date, which decides the decorator, which decides the kitchen, which decides the stage payment. On facing pages you can see it.

Size, Details & Contents

The notebook

• Notebook: The Perfect Notebook, disc-bound B5
• Size: B5, 176 × 250 mm (6.9 × 9.8 in)
• Binding: 11 aluminum discs; pages lift on and off; opens flat 360°
• Paper: Cream 90gsm, fountain-pen friendly, rounded corners
• Format: Undated; refillable; add, remove and rearrange pages

Included in every Perfect Notebook: Daily Task Manager pages (40 sheets), Big Blocks goal dashboards in three layouts (10 sheets), a Ruled Notepad (40 sheets) and two ruler bookmarks. The Reflection Page is printed on the back of the dashboard.

What is in this kit (13 items)

• 1 x The Perfect Notebook, B5 disc-bound: the book that holds everything else. A notebook that goes where the project goes.
• 1 x Project Tracker pages: One page per phase or trade: project name, start date, deadline, milestones with status and a notes area for what is blocking you.
  In this kit: One page per room or trade: dates, milestones and blockers.
• 1 x Meeting Summary pages: One page per site visit or call: attendees, discussion, action items with owners, decisions and follow-up. Verbal agreements get written down the same day.
  In this kit: The single most useful habit: write actions and owners during the conversation.
• 1 x Monthly Budget pages: The renovation budget by month: costs, payments and a running balance.
  In this kit: Stage payments, invoices and what is held back until the snagging is done.
• 1 x Weekly Budget Tracker pages: Weekly page for smaller purchases, with a budget / spent / left summary.
  In this kit: Every purchase logged the day it happens.
• 1 x Weekly calendar pages, AM/PM (52 undated sheets): 52 undated weekly sheets with AM/PM hours for the week's deliveries and visits.
  In this kit: Who is on site which day, what is being delivered, and when the water is off.
• 1 x 2027/2028 Monthly Calendar: Dated January 2027 to December 2028: 24 monthly spreads, each with a Monday-to-Sunday grid, a mini preview of the next month, a Big Block goals section, activity icons and a notes area. Use it to map the whole project, from demolition to the final walkthrough.
  In this kit: Lead times and stage payments, two years at a glance.
• 1 x Inspiration pages: Numbered entries with space for an idea, where you saw it and your own reflection. Collect finishes, layouts and references in one place.
  In this kit: A place for the finishes and ideas you will be asked about on the spot.
• 1 x Ruled pages refill (40 sheets): Ruled pages for longer notes and a running punch list of things to fix.
  In this kit: For the working-out: comparing quotes, rough sums, questions for the builder.
• 1 x Dotted pages refill (40 sheets): Dotted pages for rough floor plans and measurements.
  In this kit: For measurements, rough layouts and sketches.
• 1 x Plastic index dividers (5 tabs): Five tabs, for example one per room or per trade.
  In this kit: Sections by room or trade.
• 1 x Sticky notes (rectangular and arrow shapes): Flags for open items to raise at the next site visit.
  In this kit: Flags for what needs deciding this week.
• 1 x Clear plastic pockets (5-pack): Five clear pockets for receipts, quotes and swatches. They are A5, smaller than the B5 pages, so they hold small papers, not refill pages.
  In this kit: Receipts, quotes and delivery notes get a place.

All pages are B5 on cream 90gsm paper. The clear pockets are A5 and hold small papers, not refill pages.

A week with the Renovation Kit

1. After every site conversation. Fill in a Meeting Summary, including the two-minute chat in the hallway. Read the actions back before you leave.
2. The moment a change is agreed. Write the variation down: what changed, who asked, what it adds, who pays.
3. Sunday. Set the week: who is on site which day, what is being delivered, what has to be decided before Wednesday. Check the trackers for anything blocked.
4. Daily. Log each purchase on the Weekly Budget Tracker. Five seconds each keeps the final figure from being a surprise.
5. Monthly. Reconcile the money: stage payments due, invoices paid, what is left in each category. Copy every payment date onto the calendar.
6. End of a cycle. Reflection Page: what moved, what stalled, what you will change.

Who it is for, and who it is not for

It is for

• Anyone project-managing their own build: a first home being made livable, a kitchen and bathroom, a loft conversion, an extension, a whole house.
• People running the job around a full-time job, where site decisions get made in a five-minute phone call.
• Anyone comparing three quotes who cannot remember which one included the making-good.
• Couples who want the money visible between them, and landlords who would like the process to be repeatable.

It is probably not for

• If your contractor runs everything and you only choose finishes, you may not need a project system this complete.

Made to be used, and refilled

The Perfect Notebook is a B5 notebook on cream 90gsm paper that is friendly to fountain pens, with rounded corners and 11 aircraft-grade aluminum discs. Pages lift off the discs and go back on, so the book is something you keep and refill rather than finish and throw away.

A gift for someone you care about

A practical gift for someone about to start a renovation: a way to keep every decision and every agreement written down.

Made for the person running the build

The Renovation Kit is for anyone who has learned, or would like to avoid learning, the expensive way that "we agreed that on site" is not a document.

Shipping & returns

• Free shipping on US orders of $75 or more.
• Pre-order: this kit contains pages that are on their way to our warehouse. We expect to ship about December 10, 2026. If you order it together with items that are in stock, we hold the whole order and ship it together.
• Returns: 90 days. Unused products can be exchanged. Refunds are issued within 30 days of receiving the return.

Questions

Can I use it for a small project?
Yes. Use a Project Tracker page per room and ignore what you don't need.

Do the dotted pages help with measurements?
They are intended for layouts and measurements, with faint dots that guide without ruling.

Does it work without a signal?
It is paper, so yes.

When will it ship?
About December 10, 2026. If your order also contains in-stock items, the whole order is held and shipped together.

Can I return it?
Yes, within 90 days. Unused products can be exchanged, and refunds are issued within 30 days of receiving the return.

This kit is a planning and record-keeping tool. It is not legal, contractor or financial advice.

Cream 90gsm paper, disc-bound spine — add, remove and rearrange every page anytime. When a section fills up, refills keep the same notebook going for years.

Building work eats everything: your evenings, your weekends, your kitchen, and eventually the parts of life that have nothing to do with the house. Your Perfect Notebook already includes the Big Blocks Dashboard for the next two weeks of the build and the personal half for the rest of your life, the Daily Task Manager for each day, and the Reflection Page for an honest line on what moved and how you are both coping.

Learn the method on the PAMR Method page and the tracking icons on the Icons page.

Ships from the USA. Free US shipping on orders over $75.

Pre-order: this kit ships around December 10, 2026. The whole order is held and ships together.

90-day returns. Unused items can be exchanged. Refunds are issued within 30 days of receiving the return.

Shipping policy · Returns policy