Template: templates/frame.wants.md

# {{title}}

_What you want and why. This page and the Budget decide what is in: a room, a job, or a pick that does not serve what is written here is one to question, however good the deal._

## The Project

_A few sentences: which house, what work, and what life it is for afterward. Say it the way you would say it to a friend._

## Why Now

_What is wrong, missing, or about to change: the family growing, the roof failing, the sale planned. The problem the work solves._

## How It Should Feel

_The three or four words you would want to use standing in the finished space. Every room and every pick gets held up against these._

## Not in This Project

_The project you are deliberately not doing: the addition you talked about, the full gut, the flip. Writing it down here is what keeps the job from growing._

Template: templates/frame.house.md

# {{title}}

_The house as it stands: what is there, what has to stay, and what the work has to live with._

## The House

_Age, construction, size, and condition, in a paragraph. What kind of building the crews will find._

## What Stays

_Walls, systems, and features nobody touches: the load-bearing wall, the panel, the original floors. Named here so no job assumes otherwise._

## What Is Behind the Walls

_Where power, water, gas, drains, and heating run, and what state they are in. What the structure can carry. The surprises you already know about._

## Getting In and Living Through It

_How crews and materials get in, where the dumpster goes, and where you live while the work runs. Neighbors, parking, hours._

Template: templates/frame.budget.md

# {{title}}

_The money, the dates, and what matters most. This is the page every quote gets read against._

## The Budget

_The total, the cushion for surprises, and how it splits across phases and rooms. Update it as quotes come in. The total is the limit; the split is the decision._

## The Dates

_When it starts, the finish that actually matters (a move-in, a season, a baby), and the deadlines between: permits in, rough-in inspection, the day the kitchen stops working._

## What Matters Most

_The two or three things money and attention go to first, in order, and what you would give up to protect them. This settles the argument when the budget says no._

## Hard Limits

_The lines you will not cross: a number, a date, a wall. Keep it short._

Template: templates/frame.permits.md

# {{title}}

_Permits, inspections, and the rules the work has to meet. The inspector reads this page, and it is why a job cannot start before its paperwork does._

## Who Permits It

_The city, county, or HOA that permits this work, which permits it needs, and what each one covers. Where the permit documents live (link them from Files)._

## Inspections

_Which inspections happen, and at which point in which phase. The gates a job waits on before the next one can cover it up._

## Rules That Change the Design

_The code requirements that shape a room: egress windows, setbacks, GFCI outlets, venting, historic rules. Named here so a room does not promise what the code will not allow._

## Who Signs Off

_The inspector, the engineer, the architect, the HOA: who approves what, and how long they take._

Template: templates/room.full.md

# {{title}}

## What This Room Is For

_What it will be for, for whom, and what is wrong with it now. A short paragraph. If this changes a lot, it is probably a different room._

### Taking for Granted

_The things you are assuming and have not confirmed: the wall is not load-bearing, the plumbing stays where it is, the window is kept. Write them down so a guess does not get built as if it were settled._

## Still to Decide

_What you do not know yet and need answered. Kept near the top so nothing gets buried. When something is decided, it moves down into the list below._

## What It Has to Do

_The finished room, as things you can check standing in it: the layout, the light, the storage, the outlets, the water, the sound, how it connects to the next room. Number them so anyone can point at one. Put the drawing in Files and link it. If it is not written here, it is not promised._

1. <!-- the first thing the finished room has to do -->

## Not in This Room

_What this room deliberately does not get, and which room or which later project gets it instead. This is the list that keeps a renovation from growing a wing._

## The Work and the Picks

_The jobs that touch this room and the selections that go in it, as links: `[Kitchen Electrical](<../../The Work/Rough-In/Kitchen Electrical.md>)`, not just the name._

## Notes and Decisions

_Notes: measurements, the reference photo, the thing the contractor said on site. Decisions: one line each, with the date, never deleted, so nobody reopens a settled question in month four._

<!-- 2026-02-11: Kept the window; moving it cost more than the view was worth. (Homeowner) -->

Template: templates/room.rough.md

# {{title}}

## What This Room Is For

_What it will be for, in a short paragraph. Grow it into the full version once the room is definitely in._

## Still to Decide

_What you do not know yet._

## What It Has to Do

_The few things already settled, numbered._

1. <!-- the first thing the finished room has to do -->

## Not in This Room

_What this room does not get, and what gets it instead. Write this first, not last._

Template: templates/job.full.md

# {{title}}

## What This Job Is

_What it changes, in which rooms, and why it is one job rather than part of another. A short paragraph. If this changes a lot, it is a different job._

### Taking for Granted

_What you are assuming about the house and have not confirmed: what is behind the wall, what the last job leaves behind, what the permit covers. Write it down so it does not get quoted as if it were known._

## Still to Decide

_What you do not know yet, from the contractor, the engineer, or the inspector. Kept near the top so it gets asked before the quote is signed._

## What Gets Done

_Exactly what is done, as a numbered list a contractor can quote and you can walk through afterward. If it is not written here, it is not in the quote, whatever was said on site. Put the drawing in Files and link it._

1. <!-- the first thing that gets done -->

## When It Happens

_Where this sits in its phase, what has to be finished before it starts, and which inspection it waits on before the next job can cover it up._

## Not This Job

_What this job does not include, and which job does: the rough-in but not the fixtures, the drywall but not the paint. The gap between two jobs is where a change order lives; this is where you find it._

## What It Needs First

_The cabinets delivered, the panel upgraded, the room emptied. Anything this job needs from another job, a pick, a permit, or you before it can start. Link the pages rather than naming them._

## Notes and Decisions

_Notes: the quote, the contractor's number, the site photo. Decisions: one line each, dated, never deleted._

<!-- 2026-02-20: Added the subpanel to this job; the electrician would not split the trip. (Contractor) -->

Template: templates/job.rough.md

# {{title}}

## What This Job Is

_What it changes, in a short paragraph. Grow it into the full version once it is ready to quote._

## Still to Decide

_What you do not know yet._

## What Gets Done

_The few things already settled, numbered._

1. <!-- the first thing that gets done -->

## Not This Job

_What this job does not include, and which job does. Write this first, not last._

Template: templates/selection.full.md

# {{title}}

## What It Is For

_Where it goes and what it has to do there, and why this one. A short paragraph. If this changes a lot, you are choosing for a different need._

## Still to Decide

_Lead time, whether it fits, whether the plumber will install it. Kept near the top so it gets asked before you pay._

## What It Has to Be

_Size, finish, rating, code, the look it has to match, as a numbered list. This is what every option gets judged against._

1. <!-- the first thing it has to be -->

## What We Chose

_Maker, model, finish, where it is from, what it cost, how long it takes to arrive, and a link to the spec sheet in Files. What it replaced, if anything._

## Not This Pick

_What this pick does not cover, and which pick does: the faucet but not the drain, the tile but not the grout._

## Who Installs It

_The job that puts it in, and the picks it has to match. Link the pages rather than naming them._

## Notes and Decisions

_Notes: the showroom, where the sample is, the reminder. Decisions: one line each, dated, never deleted._

<!-- 2026-03-02: Went with the 30-inch; the 36 blocked the drawer. (Designer) -->

Template: templates/selection.option.md

# {{title}}

## What It Would Be For

_Where it would go and what it would do there. A short paragraph. Once you choose it, grow this into the full version; if you do not, mark it `Cut`._

## Still to Find Out

_The real price installed, the lead time, whether it fits. Kept near the top so the next showroom visit has a list._

## What It Has to Be

_The list it is judged against, copied or linked from the pick it is competing for. Numbered._

1. <!-- the first thing it has to be -->

## What We Would Still Need

_What choosing this would leave uncovered. The gap that would need another pick._