Home renovations can be incredibly exciting. They can also be incredibly taxing and stressful. One of the best means to addressing both? Photos.
You can start by planning to do straight "Before and After" photos, but I'm talking more. More photos. More leverage to help you see progress and more clear cut explanation drivers for concerns.
Why take photos:
- For personal reasons: Photos allow you to look back at progress and see what things looked like, remember what you've been through, show the progression, and help you see the 'forest despite the tree's, if you will. As we renovate our home, we find ourselves looking back at photos going "oh! right! OMG I can't believe it looked like that one time!" Even though you think you're going to remember how amazing the transformation is, the reality is that sometimes because you see it all the time and are in the middle of it, progress doesn't seem as exciting. Photos help you remember and really enjoy the actual progress you made.
- For working with contractors: There's an old saying that says "You can say you see a 6, and I can say I see a 9, and depending on where we're standing, we can both be right but frustrated because we don't see the other's point of view." Same is true for construction. Having photos help give everyone the same starting point for the conversation. It allows you to explain to the trades folk doing work what you're seeing and why it's a concern, and it also gives them the same starting point for explaining their thinking and perspective. Without it, you all 'hope' you're basing your discussion in the same assumptions. With photos, there's no assuming.
Happy renovation!
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