Five questions about your house.
None about you.
Nothing here asks what you have. Every question asks what the house is doing, on an ordinary day, as it stands right now.
It takes about two minutes and there's no score at the end. What you get is what the house told you, written the way you'd hand it to a contractor.
Is there a room, or a whole floor, you use less than you did five years ago?
A guest room that became storage. An upstairs you go to once a week. A basement with the good freezer in it.
Is there one thing in the house your day gets planned around?
Showering only when someone else is home. Going upstairs once and staying. Waiting until the good bathroom is free.
What's the widest thing that's ever got stuck in a doorway here?
A sofa on moving day. A laundry basket held in both hands. A stroller, a walker, a suitcase.
When you stand up in the bathroom, where does your hand go?
Be honest. Most people reach for something and haven't noticed.
Is anything about this house already decided?
Ordered, signed, drawn, or just settled in your head. This is the one that sets the price of everything above it.
Five to go.
What the house said
This is page one. Everything a renovation decides gets decided in an order, and the order is the part nobody tells you. If you want the rest of it, one letter at a time, it's here.
If you'd rather somebody looked at this house with you, that's the consultation.
I'm not an architect, a contractor, or a registered interior designer. Nothing here is stamped, structural, or about egress. Those are licensed questions and they go to the people licensed to answer them.