$175.00

The Renovation Standard Toolkit

Name: The Renovation Standard Toolkit
Brand: A Design Lifestyle
Price: 175.0 USD
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$175.00

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As Seen In ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST & FORBES

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee — Designer-tested in 100+ family homes. Kid-friendly answers tonight — or your money back.

“Jackie truly understands the chaos of being both a renovator and a parent.” — Verified buyer, The Renovation Standard Toolkit

Run the renovation. Keep the family running.

Less to decide. More family time.

Let me guess.

You bought the fixer-upper, or the walls are finally moving — and now it's hundreds of selections, quotes, orders and deliveries to manage while managing parenthood.

You don't need more ideas. You need kid-friendly decisions, narrowed down, for the hours you actually have. A renovation is a second part-time job nobody trains you for.

Nobody hands you the tools that run it, either. So here they are: 750+ formulas holding the budget, the orders, and every selection you've already made.

Now picture the same renovation, designed.

Decisions made on paper, before demo day. A contractor you trust because you knew what to ask. Materials chosen once — no 7 am texts, no regret tile. Same project, same budget, same house — different order. Here's how:

The Family-Proof Method, built for family renovations.

The Renovation Standard Toolkit is built on the Family-Proof Method: first walkthrough to final punch in 8 parts, in order — every fixture and material sourced, every decision made once, every choice put through the Family-Proof Method's four questions. Built for family life, not around it, at a designer's level — drawn from 100+ family homes, from first apartments to estate renovations.

And what to refuse. No LVP. No laminate or vinyl — they off-gas phthalates. Granite dates quickly and some of it off-gasses radon. Contractors will still quote all of it, so the specifications in here help you read a bid and know exactly what you're being sold. Kid-friendly is the new luxury.

Includes the interactive project manager

Every selection, order, delivery, and install in one place, with your whole-house budget updating live. Hand your contractor their exact schedule — model numbers, quantities, delivery dates, zero questions. It's the project manager I run on client renovations. Now it's yours.

8 parts · 750+ formulas · 450+ fillable fields · 225+ items · checklists for every phase.

Fill in the blanks, check the boxes, enter one budget number — the project manager does the math from there.

Start wherever you are: one room or the whole house.

Every decision a designer would walk you through — no designer required.

Working with a designer, architect, or contractor? You'll be their favorite client: every decision is already made, so the project moves faster and smoother.

Fillable PDF workbook + interactive project manager spreadsheet (Google Sheets or Excel), on any device. Lifetime access, including every update. Questions? Send me a note.

Want the whole house covered? The Standard Toolkit Library includes both Standard Toolkits: The Renovation Standard Toolkit for the build, and The Furnishing Standard Toolkit for everything that goes in it afterward. See the Library →

Every part, handled.

Getting Started · Design Education · Your Home · Room Guides · Materials & Finishes · Hiring & Managing · Infrastructure · Resources.

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee — Designer-tested in 100+ family homes. Kid-friendly answers tonight — or your money back.

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“This is the Big Little Feelings of Interior Design”

“A real interior design manual built for parents — not an organizing guide, not a cleaning method.”

— Gabrielle, verified buyer

OUR TRANSPARENCY STANDARD

The Family-Proof Method

Every recommendation in every toolkit answers four questions: Is it safe for kids? Is it washable? How many years will it last? What does it cost per year? Most design advice skips straight to "buy this." Your design friend doesn't.

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Renovate without the regret.

The toolkit: a step-by-step fillable workbook and an interactive project manager spreadsheet, made to work as a pair. The workbook makes the decisions; the project manager keeps track of every one.

Renovation decisions are permanent, expensive, and usually made under pressure. This toolkit puts them in the right order — design decided before construction begins, contractors hired well, materials that survive real family life. No guessing, no second job.

A renovation, designed.

Scope
The scope, the budget, the timeline — decided on paper first. (The cheapest place to change your mind is before demo day.)
Hire
How to find, interview, and hire the right contractor — and the questions that reveal the wrong one.
Select
Tile that cleans off the mud. Counters that survive art projects. Floors that forgive sports gear. Chosen once, loved for a childhood.
Track
The interactive project manager keeps every selection, change, and dollar in one place — so nothing gets decided in a parking-lot phone call. Then one export sends every specification to your builder.
Manage
Site visits, deliveries, decisions on a school night — while life keeps going. We can't make the dust disappear. But we can help you plan around it.
Finish
The punch list, the walkthroughs, the warranty file — finished means actually finished.

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From your Design Friend

Hi — it's me.

I'm Jackie — an Architectural Digest–featured interior designer with a BFA in Interior Architecture & Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, a parent, and your design friend. 15+ years of projects, 100+ family homes, zero judgment. I kept hearing the same thing: "I have kids — I can't have a nice home." As if family design has to mean cheap and disposable. It doesn't. Somebody should design homes for actual families. So I did.

Meet Jackie

The part nobody photographs

Family homes see it all — mine too. Beyond the 100+ family homes I've designed, I renovated my own, while working full time with a one-year-old at home. Portfolio photos show a finished room on its best day. They don't show the dust, the delays, or the decisions made at 10 pm. I get it, because I've lived it. The Family-Proof Method doesn't ask for perfect. It gets you through, so life gets to happen on the other side.

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THE PROMISE

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Designer-tested in 100+ family homes. Kid-friendly answers tonight — or your money back.

“Plus, the automated spreadsheet is amazing—you just plug in your total budget and it instantly maps out your spending for every single room, while also letting you hand a clear, finalized material plan straight to your builder.”

— Verified buyer, The Renovation Standard Toolkit

STILL WONDERING SOMETHING?

Questions, answered

Is this for one room or a whole house?

Either. Start wherever you are — one room at a time or the whole house, at your own pace. The Family-Proof Method scales to your project.

I'm not "design-y." Will I get it?

It's step-by-step. If you can follow a recipe, you can follow this.

Digital or physical?

Digital — the fillable workbook plus the interactive project manager, on your phone, tablet, computer, or printed. Lifetime access.

I'm hiring a designer (or architect) — is this still useful?

Very. You'll show up knowing your style, your budget, and your priorities — the prep that makes any design project, and any designer, better.

Why not a course?

A course teaches you, then leaves you to do it alone. This does the work with you: your home, your budget, your rooms, filled in as you go, with the project manager keeping it all in one place. No videos to sit through, no modules to finish first. Start at whatever part your project is in.

Why these prices?

The complete Family-Proof Method, calibrated from 15+ years of real client projects — not a template, the actual toolkit. Designer-tested in 100+ family homes. Kid-friendly answers tonight — or your money back.

Every renovation ends in furnishing.

The Standard Toolkit Library holds both Standard Toolkits — build it right, then furnish it to last.

Access to experience what only her clients had before

You're getting access to experience what only her clients had before; her whole business in a workbook. This workbook removes the barrier to entry for me, someone who doesn't know design lingo or come from that world. The price ranges gave me shopping context I've never had. I also really enjoyed the seasonal refresh lists and cleaning guides. Life gets so busy, with priorities shifting constantly, I was grateful to have an expert breakdown home function and design. This guide simplified for me what I needed to actually make positive changes in my home, one room at a time.

You got it. The whole design process in a workbook, no lingo required. That's exactly what I'm building for you.
As ever,
Jackie

This is the Big Little Feelings of Interior Design

We just bought our first home and wanted it to actually feel designed — not just furnished. We had a small budget for some new pieces but definitely not a budget for a hired designer. We wanted to do it right and we needed help.

This is exactly that. A real interior design manual built for parents — not an organizing guide, not a cleaning method. Actual design, but for real family life.

It held my hand through all the big decisions — finding sofas and rugs that are genuinely nice but won’t get destroyed in a week. The kind of stuff you want to invest in once and not regret. Found it on Pinterest at 11pm and wish I’d had it from day one.

The budget tool is worth the price alone. Typed in one number and it told me what to spend in every single room. Showed my husband and for the first time we were looking at the same plan. No more midnight tabs spiral.

The bonus is it also helped us build routines to actually maintain the design we created. Our kids seem calmer in their bedrooms at night. The living room handles everything from after school to full weekends without looking like a tornado hit it. And I can actually have people over now — I’m proud of our space instead of embarrassed by it.

Our home finally feels design-worthy and it functions for our actual kid life. Already sent it to my sister and two moms from school. Go get it!

The midnight tabs spiral ending — that's the whole thing right there. Thank you for showing what this actually changes.
As ever,
Jackie

Finally, an interior design resource for real parents, from a designer mom who totally gets it!

This is the only resource I've found that actually balances a beautiful aesthetic with the reality of family life, and it completely cured my decision fatigue by doing all the research for us. It honestly felt like getting high-end designer advice without the massive price tag, endless meetings, or losing our own personal style. I've always wanted to learn about interior design, and this actually taught me so much that it made our project super fun instead of totally daunting. Jackie truly understands the chaos of being both a renovator and a parent. Plus, the automated spreadsheet is amazing—you just plug in your total budget and it instantly maps out your spending for every single room, while also letting you hand a clear, finalized material plan straight to your builder. It finally got my spouse and me on the same page and proved you don’t have to sacrifice style just because you have a family.

The Renovation Standard Toolkit