DH:TP - 060 - Does the Homework Actually Help? Clients Mid-Process

A twist on the usual Happy Home Story: instead of clients looking back on a finished project, Erin and Henry come on about a third of the way through their design process, still in the thick of it. They talk about the trauma-adjacent bathroom renovation that nearly scared them off doing anything else, the fatalism they kept hearing that these projects are just supposed to be miserable, and what actually shifted when Henry finally picked the book up off the coffee table after a year of dust collecting on it. They get into how the exercises landed differently for two people whose brains work in completely different ways, why leading with your why beat walking in with a finished Pinterest board, and the business card that fell out of the book at exactly the right moment. Benchstone becomes a word, "it doesn't have to suck" becomes a t-shirt, and TJ gets to hear firsthand what he was hoping for while typing alone in his office.