Home Consulting

With most of our urgent home projects taken care of (big knock on wood), stable jobs (finally! and also knocking on wood) and no major life changes on the horizon, we've been feeling ready to tackle a new project on our house. But what to do? We've been tossing around ideas for a while, but were having trouble getting anything started.

So, last week, I ran us through a little home version of a prioritization workshop I like to do (usually at work). We brainstormed on post-its, consolidated our ideas, voted on our highest priorities, and then organized our ideas on a matrix by number of votes (on the X axis) and cost/effort (on the y axis). Our french doors came in handy for this part of the exercise!

We decided to ignore all high cost, low desire items. Then, we made a plan to do the highest desire, low cost items and to research the high desire, high cost items. At the end of one hour, we had a clear action plan with tasks for each of us. More on our progress soon!