I get it. Many nights of lost sleep, leading to poor choices for the next few days, spiraling down when I'm meant to be at my focused best. I've recently discovered a simple antidote for the sleepless night syndrome that's been bought on by my renovation not going to plan. Journalling my sleepless worries. The influencers recommend it and I've read a facebook post (or 1000) about it. What are you worried about? Then write till you don't have any more worries at that time to think of. In the light of day, some of these worries aren't real. Bonus. For the rest, I can get advice, chat to my coach, do some research and have conversations with my partner, my a tradies or my finance broker. I don't know how many times I kid myself that at 3am I'm going to solve all my problems, but my brain likes to try.

Welcome. I'm so glad you found your way here. This group exists because renovation, building, and construction projects are genuinely hard — and they're even harder when you're navigating them without the knowledge, the language, or the people around you who understand what you're dealing with. Here's what this community is: **A place to ask the questions you're embarrassed to ask anywhere else. **A place to share the wins that feel small but actually aren't. **A place to get real, practical information from someone with 20 years in construction — without the jargon, without the condescension, and without the feeling that you should already know this. Here's what this community is not: --A sales funnel. --A place to be pitched to. --A space where you need to perform capability you don't have yet. Your first move: introduce yourself below. Tell us: what project are you working on, and what's the one thing you wish you already knew? I'll reply to every single one this week. 😃Welcome home. Naomi

It's common to look back on a project and say wow.. I've learnt so much. Whats out there is a world of experience, knowledge, new horizons from running your own project. Where you start is not knowing how. Learning that along the way from a thousand small steps of sharing why you want to build, your story for building and vision for what's possible. You might think its risky but hang out there for a minute not knowing how, when, why, and feel the nerves as excitement for anythings possible.

Being on site and the working together, sharing, communication and the pride of building something tangible. It's quite an experience and brings a lot of trades together. The benefit of being a project manager is that you get the incremental updates and you get the benefit of before and after. We take a lot of photos of stages and overall project growth to document and share that experience with our clients. The satisfaction, fulfillment and genuine pride of pulling something together from nothing. Then we also experience the real gratitude for the profession. Grateful to be part of the story and grateful for the trust a client has put in us to upgrade or build or design their building project.

Planning a small renovation to secure your energy future? I've been asked by a client to price up a project and accounting for rebates and current electric prices, come up with a cost to get off gas and reduce bills. My client lives in a 1970s house and wants to reduce bills and be secure in their energy generation. They don't yet own an ev but have been also thinking that's the way to go. More updates on this project soon.