THE REMODEL STUDIO
THE REMODEL STUDIO
HOMEOWNERS PLANNING A KITCHEN REMODEL
Researched your kitchen remodel for months...
Still feel like you’re missing something?
Plan your dream kitchen remodel
without $15,000 in material mistakes
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Used by 1.8k+ homeowners to protect their investment and project vision
After 25 years in the renovation industry, I’ve heard these same regrets over and over...
“The oak stain completely different!”
“I never approved this seam location.”
“What does overlay mean?”
Elaine's kitchen cabinets were already ordered.
🚩 Uh-oh. We had a problem.
She hired a designer. Hired a contractor. Signed off on every selection. Then hired me—an independent set of eyes.
During our review, her eyes lit up.
She talked about her dream workstation sink she had pictured in her finished kitchen.
But I saw the cabinet order...
→ The sink cabinet was 33 inches.
→The work station sink was 39 inches.
❌ The sink was never going to fit.
Elaine was DEVASTATED—angry, blindsided, and sick over the fact that the ONE feature she cared about most had been overlooked by the professionals she trusted.
It wasn't a bad decision. It was nobody's job to catch it. Her designer trusted the cabinet order. Her contractor trusted the design. Everyone assumed someone else was watching for the one detail she cared about most.
The Resolution? She paid an extra $1,850 to change the cabinet order, so she didn't have to give up her sink. ☹️
Your remodel inspiration folder stopped helping 5 months ago.
Why do homeowners scroll and screenshot their way
into more confusion?
The reason is simple.
You know exactly what you want your kitchen to look like... shaker cabinets, taj mahal quartzite, a bridge faucet.
But remodeling buries you in 100+ microdecisions.
The costly decisions are often the ones you don’t even know are yours to make. Even with a contractor, designer, or cabinet company involved, important details can still fall between the cracks.
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You've probably already tried:
📌 Pinterest — 400 saved pins, and half of them are AI-generated kitchens that can't actually be built. Great for inspiration. Useless when your contractor asks "what edge profile."
🤖 ChatGPT — Ask it what quartz to pick and it gives you a confident, generic answer that has no idea what your contractor's constraints are.
📺 YouTube — Real people, real kitchens. But no structure. You watch 40 videos and still don't know what applies to your kitchen.
📝 A spreadsheet you started and abandoned — because "track everything" isn't the same as "know what to decide."
None of these were built to answer the 100+ specific questions your contractor is going to ask you.
Imagine this
→ The panic is gone. When your contractor asks about cabinets, tile, or countertops, you already have the answer.
→ You stop wondering what each bid left out. Your materials are specified, so you can compare the numbers side by side.
→ You are no longer bracing for the budget to explode. Your selections replace vague allowances before they become change orders.
▶︎ My promise: You'll know exactly what you're buying, what it's costing you, and what still needs to be decided — before you approve a renovation contract.
Your $93k kitchen
remodel isn't the time for "I hope this is right?!" energy
WHY MY CHECKLISTS ARE THE FIX
The details you don’t know to ask about are usually the ones that get missed.
→ Because your kitchen has too many decisions to trust to memory.
→ Because one missed detail can become the thing you notice every single day and wish you could undo.
→ Because these checklists hold the questions you were never supposed to magically know.
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Built from the exact systems I used to manage six-figure kitchen projects.
What changed after homeowners used the remodel checklists
These are the exact checklists I used to run my kitchen renovations as a licensed general contractor.
If I missed a planning detail that increased costs, I covered the cost—not my homeowner clients. That's how much I believed in them.
Look inside
The 82-page-bundle walks you through the real decisions—
measurements, materials, and field-tested details that make a difference.
Print it at home, fill it out on your tablet or hand it to your contractor.
Work through dedicated sections for cabinets, countertops, tile, lighting, sinks, faucets, hardware, and paint.
Bring it to showroom visits and contractor meetings so your decisions, measurements, and questions stay documented and meetings don't waste time.
Easy to follow and straightforward
Every major selection covered
+ Paint + Finishes
Organize your full home palette—walls, trim, cabinets, ceiling—and ensure finishes coordinate across all rooms and materials.
+ Cabinetry
Track style, finish, box type, crown, and layout-specific notes. A smart pre-check before you finalize the cabinet plan.
+ Backsplash Tile
Map out layout options, transitions, and trim types. Prevent last-minute confusion about direction, grout lines, or where to stop.
+ Sink
Covers mounting styles, bowl configurations, and reveal types—with install notes most homeowners don’t know to ask about.
+ Faucet
Plan for spacing, spray types, supply lines, and finish compatibility. Know what works before you buy—and what could cause a re-do.
+ Hardware
Check sizing, projection, finish mixing, and alignment. Prevent drawers and doors from colliding—and save yourself from reorders.
+ Countertops
Understand material pros/cons, edge profiles, and overhangs—plus how thickness impacts sink + faucet installs. Avoid costly cuts, seams, or clearance issues.
+ Lighting
From pendants to under-cabinet lights, this sheet helps you map every fixture, confirm placement, and avoid dim or shadowed work zones.
One week from now, your cabinet, countertop, hardware, and sink decisions could be organized in one place.
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO GET IT RIGHT
A slow Friday morning.
Coffee in your favorite cup.
Your new kitchen glowing around you, and not a thing you would change.
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Hi!
You've waited a long time to remodel this kitchen.
You might even be a little obsessed with it by now — the cabinets, the countertops, the pendant lights.
Are you team painted cabinets or stained cabinets?
That's the fun part. This is finally your kitchen to create — the one you're proud to invite people into.
Then the quotes come back, and none of them quite match. The allowances are vague. And the part that was supposed to be exciting starts to feel like work.
Here's what I've learned in 25 years of doing this: that morning I described up top doesn't come from picking the prettiest finishes. It comes from the decisions you made — or didn't — months earlier, back when it was just quotes and questions and a hundred things you weren't sure about.
I've watched hundreds of those good mornings happen. I've also watched the other kind — where she walks in and the first thing she sees is the one thing she'd redo if she could.
Same budget.
Same effort.
The only difference was whether someone showed her the decisions before they got locked in.
So I took the exact checklists I used on my own job sites — the ones I trusted on real six figure projects, — and put them in your hands.
Turns out homeowners (really) love them. More than 1,800 people have used these on their own remodels.
Let's plan your kitchen the calm way — and actually get it built.
Julie
One week with your
kitchen remodel checklists
MONDAY
Identify material decisions
you still need to make.
WEDNESDAY
Take it with you to showrooms to stay focused and productive.
FRIDAY
Bring it to every contractor meeting so no details are skipped.
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"So many details I never even thought of!"
I thought I had a pretty good handle on the kitchen, and then I started going through these and kept thinking, wait—I have to decide that too?
Cabinet fillers, the sink reveal, where the countertop seam goes. Nobody had explained any of that. It was way more detailed than I expected, in a good way.
-Homeowner Dean Johnson
These checklists are built to help you catch the small specs, missing details, and overlooked decisions before they turn into expensive remodel problems.
Try them for 14 days. You are either thrilled to better understand your remodel, or I'll refund you. No questions asked.
--Julie Hampton
Founder, The Remodel Studio
Get All 8 Checklists
Instant PDF download includes:
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Countertops
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Sinks
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Faucets
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Tile
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Cabinet Hardware
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Paint & Finishes
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Cabinets
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Lighting
"I didn’t know I needed to specify the countertop radius. I wanted a very round edge corner to match the rest of the curves in my design. Everything had arches and curves.
Glad I brought this up.
Janet T., Olathe KS
I brought the checklist to the showroom and boy was it easy! I could see exactly what was on the list, compare finishes and options in person, and figure out what I actually liked and what I didn’t need.
Erica D, Boca Raton FL
I thought choosing countertops meant picking granite slabs. Apparently, that there is WAY more to it than that. I found the perfect 3 slabs! Made it easy!
Daniella S, Hoffman Estates IL
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