A house, room by room
Renovation@The-Virtual-Panda/renovation
Rooms by floor, the work by phase, selections by room, a schedule, and a change log.
- The Brief
- Rooms
- The Work
- Selections
In the app: New Root, then pick it from the list.
Every quote, decision, and vendor, in one place.
A renovation or a wedding is a hundred small decisions scattered across texts, emails, and quotes. Eidos gives each room, job, vendor, and moment one page that says what was agreed, what it costs, and what is still to decide, with a to-do board beside it. It is the same app people use to plan software and novels; here it runs your kitchen.
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. No account, no subscription.
Sound familiar?
It is all written down somewhere. Just not in one place.
Twenty email threads, three quotes, and a contractor who remembers it differently.
Scattered
Quotes in your inbox, measurements in a text, the vendor’s terms in a PDF, and the plan in a spreadsheet only you can read.
Agreed on site
What you settled with the contractor or the caterer lives in two memories, and by month four they no longer match.
The gaps between
The tile is in the quote but the grout is not. The baker brings the cake, but who brings the stand? The gaps between two jobs are where the surprises cost money.
How it fits
One page for every room, job, pick, and vendor.
Pick the Renovation or the Wedding framework when you start, and every part of the project gets a page with the same sections every time. Each page says what it is, what is still to decide, and what it does not cover, so the gaps show up before the invoice does.
- The Brief
- Four pages the rest is checked against: what you want, the house as it stands, the budget and dates, and the permits.
- Rooms
- One per room, by floor: what the finished room has to do, numbered, and what it does not get.
- The Work
- One per job, by phase, with the trade and the quote: exactly what gets done, and what belongs to the next job.
- Selections
- Every fixture and finish, by room: what it has to be, what you chose, and what it cost.
- Run of Show
- For a wedding: each moment of the day in order, with its start time, step by step.
- Vendors
- Each vendor by category: what you are getting, their day, the deal, and what is not their job.
What you will use most
The tools that keep a big project straight.
- Backlog
A to-do list that knows what it is for
Book the inspection, order the hood, get a second quote: each task on a board, pointing at the room, job, or vendor it is about.
- Decisions
What you agreed, written down
“Add a subpanel, plus $3,400.” Logged against the job with who asked and when, and marked confirmed once you agree.
- Comments
Notes from your partner
Your partner, or your planner, leaves a note on the exact line it is about, and you close it once it is answered.
- Assets
Quotes and photos, filed
Quotes, contracts, spec sheets, and site photos linked to the pages they belong to, so the right PDF is one click from the job.
- Canvas
The whole project on one page
Rooms, jobs, and vendors as cards that open their pages, with arrows for what waits on what.
- AI Agent
An assistant, only if you want one
Nothing happens unless you connect one and ask. If you do, it can read two quotes against the page they are for, and it changes nothing until you say so.
A wedding, too
The same app, a different project
Start from the Wedding framework and the day becomes a run of show: each moment in order, and each vendor with what they promised. Two DJ quotes sit side by side under Music until you book one.
Before you sign
If it is not on the page, nobody promised it
A moment’s page says how it goes, step by step, and what is still to decide; a job’s page lists exactly what gets done. Write it before you book or sign, and you have something to check the day, and the invoice, against.
Start here
Start from Renovation or Wedding.
Renovation holds the brief, rooms by floor, the work by phase, selections by room, and a schedule, contacts, and change log on one page each. Wedding holds the big picture, the run of show by day, vendors by category, the timeline, and day-of contacts. Pick one when you start a new project in the app.
See it in the Registry
A wedding, as its run of show
Wedding@The-Virtual-Panda/wedding
The big picture, moments by day, vendors by category, and the timeline.
- The Big Picture
- Run of Show
- Vendors
In the app: New Root, then pick it from the list.
Put the whole project in one place this weekend.
Download Eidos MD, pick the Renovation or the Wedding framework, and write the first page: the room you are dreading, or the moment you are looking forward to. It is free, and your pages stay on your computer.
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Your files stay plain text in a folder you own.