Homeowner's Record Keeper by Christina Henry de Tessan

If you’re a home owner, I highly recommend having a place to store home-related information like the phone number of your plumber, or when you last serviced the microwave, or what color you painted the living room. The Homeowner’s Record Keeper by Christina Henry de Tessan is just one of the many books available that have sections for every conceivable home topic.

We’ve had this book since we first moved into this, our first house, and I faithfully pasted the business cards of the people we had do work here and wrote in the information for our utility companies. We haven’t quite utilized the maintenance sections or the planning sections, where there are grids for drawing out your interior design fantasies. A few years ago, however, I did a smart thing that makes me very happy this week. When we painted half the house in 2004, we had some custom colors mixed at Kelly Moore. Each color had a code assigned to it so that the store could mix more from the same formula. I took a few moments then to fill out the paint information section of the room-by-room interior records.

This week, in preparation for setting up my home office (long story), we had a painting company come in to scrape the acoustic-popcorn-cottage-cheese-texture off the ceilings of three rooms. Then we had them prep and paint just the ceilings. So on Monday, I went to Kelly Moore to buy two gallons of the off-white we had used before. Having the paint codes so easily at hand was invaluable. Then today, I went back for a gallon of cheery yellow-orange called Clean Canvas, which is in our kitchen and dining room. I will paint the office that color. It’s a good thing I had written the name in the book, because I was able to walk right in and ask for a gallon of interior flat Clean Canvas. Five minutes, in and out.

I love having been organized two years ago. It makes life today so much easier.

Homeowner's Record Keeper by Christina Henry de Tessan

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