Renovation Psychology helps domestic harmony as you renovate your home! True 'Home Improvement' - Practical tips for your Home Team to tackle and finish your project, all while building lasting family strengths and a great home. Dr. Debi Warner combines three decades of family practice in psychology with her life-long home renovating experience to bring practical and lighthearted advice – interesting and useful to both men and women. A great gift – and a needed book. This book should be on the kitchen table of every Do-It-Yourself family.       
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What's inside?
 The Table of Contents is right here!

Sections:
~> Why build? And why are we building?
 ~> Getting our team together – how to work in harmony
~> Practical Reality – how do we face it?
~> How the family can adapt to the changes during and after construction
 ~> Where to get more ideas – where to turn for help
Renovation Psychology can help your home team!

  • 304 Pages

  • 28 fun Chapters can be read in any order!

  • Many graphics – a very visual book. 

  • 81 Amusing Photo Illustrations

  • 45 Helpful Tables - very easy to read and refer to!

  • Great Index -- cued not only to topics and content, but  also to emotional words

  • Includes guide to using the book and support website

  • Fun and easy to read!

  • Men and women love this book!

  • A perfect book for any domestic partners who seek improvement of their home!

Table of Contents

Why build? And why are we building?

Loving is an Action Verb  
Homes and families don’t just appear – in a poof! You are building your Home Team from the day you declare your love.
Oh, Why DIY?  
Many wonderful reasons that people choose to renovate their own houses
Spiritual   
The house means many things to us – inside and out, and will affect how we approach a renovation project
Why This Project?   
What special meaning does this project have to your life? Understand the ways in which we can express our inner desires in the projects we plan.

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Getting our team together – how to work in harmony

Your Home Team   
The most important asset to the family under any circumstances – and this project is a great platform to develop your family’s team spirit and skills
Communication   
Tricks and habits that will help your family build communication during your project
Decisions  
Making decisions you all can live with
Deep Talk   
Deeper harmony – building better communication in your family during the project
Leveling the Playing Field   
Learn how to have fair input into decisions and communication together – regardless of each one’s speaking skills
Planning   
Types of planning that will help you succeed in your project and as a family
Roles   
Finding agreement on who does what
Schedules  
How to set up good reasonable schedules that are realistic and flexible and keep you moving ahead
Team Balance   
Use your motive quiz results to learn more about how to work in harmony on your own team!

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Practical Reality – how do we face it?

Practical Reality   
Something we all have to face – Better now than later
Budget   
Oh, money… And time...  let’s look at the realities
Priorities 
Keeping your eye on the ball throughout the project
Time Frames   
Anticipating seasonal and material limitations in your planning – with a touch of family sanity

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How the family can adapt to the changes during and after construction

Company!   
Ups and downs of entertaining company while you build
Family Life   
Let’s plan for family living while the project is underway
Life Stages   
How does this project fit in with your family’s growth?
Maintenance
You mean there’s more to do than just build it?
Perspective   
Getting a new vantage point to appreciate your project and progress
Sanity   
What is sanity? In a torn-up house can one actually remain sane? Some good lessons and tricks to make it happen
Surprises   
Responding to the unforeseen can bring out our best and worst – flexibility can help us be resilient when the surprises come
Where’s the Beef? 
How do you eat when the kitchen is upside down?  Ways to plan great eating strategies that avoid weight gain

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Where to get more ideas – where to turn for help

Are We Finished?   
Are we done?  What do we do now?
More Info and Help   
Get help from Renovation Psychology on the web or our support line and more resources on the web
Index   
Look up topics and also emotional words to find the places they are addressed in the book

Buy the book - Putting the HomeTeam to Work 

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We hope you make great progress on your home construction and that the process strengthens your family and close relationships.
The advice offered in this website, our workshops, columns, and books is not meant to replace medically necessary psychological care and does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Warner and you or any one reading this material.  We provide our services solely for enlightenment and to provide additional perspectives that can help you find your way through your renovation in a positive and growth enhancing way.  There is no guarantee that using this material will achieve all of your hoped for results.  Change is a dynamic process and rarely comes out exactly as we expected.  But with flexibility and communication on your Home Team, you may find many new opportunities to make the best of things and have a richer experience and relationship than you had thought possible.
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