Don't wing your
renovation.
Step-by-step checklists, trade-inspected budget templates, and real AUD cost guides for every phase — so you never cut a load-bearing wall or panic over grout colors at 11 PM.
Reno Reality Check
“If the previous owner did DIY electrical, consider every light switch a game of Russian roulette.”
🍳Kitchen Renovation
Stage 03 & 13The highest value & highest stress room
Find the stage you're actually up to
Click into any of the 16 stages. Each one shows the steps, the materials, and a colour telling you whether this is a Sunday job or a licensed-tradie job.
Grab the resources
Ebooks, templates, checklists and tools, all tagged to the stage that needs them. No forum crawling. No man named Gary explaining grout.
Reno without the overwhelm
Know what's DIY, what needs a pro, and what to ask before the quote arrives looking legally offensive.
The 16 stages of a renovation
Every card is a full guide with steps, materials, hints & tips, and the resources that actually help. The dot tells you how DIY-friendly the stage is — green is "go for it", red is "let someone with a licence do that".
Five ways to help, at every stage
Browse resources by type, or find them attached to the stage they belong to.
Simple pricing for complicated renovation feelings
Free for scoping. One room's worth for one room. All the rooms for a year if you're clearly in over your head and honest about it.
Enough to figure out if you're actually doing this.
- Free Renovation Starter Pack
- Any individual free checklist
- Weekly renovation tip email
- Full access to the blog
Renovating one room? Get everything for that job. Pay once, keep the files.
- Kitchen, Bathroom, Laundry or Outdoor pack
- All ebooks, templates, checklists & tools for that project
- Printable project tracker PDF
- Lifetime access + one year of free updates
For multi-room renos and chaos managers with receipts.
- Every stage, every resource, every bundle
- New content added every month
- Unlimited AI reno-advisor questions
- Early access to new stages — cancel renewal anytime
Monthly option (AU$19/mo) available on the full pricing page.
Prices in AUD. Stripe integration targeted July 2026 — the free Starter Pack is live now.
Every number you see here — ours, plus any tile, tapware, or tradie rates referenced in our guides — is a ballpark figure. Building materials move faster than we can edit ebooks, and "from AU$X" always means "from more." None of the costs we quote are a quote. Get one in writing before you spend actual money.
Featured Reading
Guides Worth Reading Before You Touch the Wall
Practical renovation advice with a little personality, so the content feels less like homework and more like competent backup.
A practical guide to avoiding the classic kitchen disasters that turn a tidy remodel into a flour-covered hostage situation.
Smart ways to improve a bathroom without turning a humble refresh into a tiny tiled money furnace.
How to make smarter, lower-waste renovation choices without acting like sustainability requires misery or beige everything.
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Reno Reality Check
“The phrase 'we'll just move this wall six inches' has caused more arguments than fantasy sports.”
Don't know what an architrave is?
The glossary decodes every bit of tradie jargon you'll run into — from cornice to batten to fit-off — so you can hold a conversation with the builder without nodding politely and Googling it later.
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