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Sean and I have been attacking this home renovation project quite blindly... we've been using the knowledge we gathered from watching HGTV for four months as our guiding light. So as we're making decisions and plans and setting our budget, we actually had no idea if we were on the right track or if we've completely veered to the no-man’s-land of home renovation.

Luckily, Sean’s godfather is a retired contractor. We had a long chat with him Monday night. To say this man is so good and knowledgeable is an understatement. He asked a basic question regarding the age of our building and then started stating what we probably had in our home – the kind of tub, the size and type of medicine cabinet, etc – and he nailed each one. He gave us advice on just everything – how / where to spend our money, recommendations on approaches to the renovation, advice on when we should engage the contractor, approximately how long our renovation should take, etc.

Now we feel loads better knowing that we’re approximately on the right track and armed with a concrete set of next steps.

Thanks Dieter!