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  "description": "Help someone who is redoing a whole home, or several rooms, decide which room to do first and how to finish it. Use when the user is overwhelmed by a home makeover, has just moved in, asks where to begin decorating, asks in what order to do rooms, or worries about making the whole home match.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: where-to-start\ndescription: Help someone who is redoing a whole home, or several rooms, decide which room to do first and how to finish it. Use when the user is overwhelmed by a home makeover, has just moved in, asks where to begin decorating, asks in what order to do rooms, or worries about making the whole home match.\n---\n\nThe hardest part of redoing a home is starting. Help the user pick one room, finish it completely, and only then move on.\n\nThe user's explicit instructions win over the defaults here. If a room has a deadline (a baby, a guest, a sale), that room goes first.\n\n## 1. Find out what there is\n\nAsk, in one message, for whatever is missing: which rooms the home has, which one bothers them most, roughly how much time and money they have for the first step, and whether they rent or own.\n\n## 2. Recommend the smallest room first\n\nMost people start with the living room because it bothers them most. It is also the biggest, most expensive, most used and most visible room, so the project stalls halfway and the home stays under construction.\n\nA small room is cheap enough to get wrong, fast enough to finish in a weekend, and teaches the user what they like before they spend real money. One finished room becomes the reference for the rest.\n\nSuggested order, smallest to largest. Adapt it to the rooms they have.\n\n1. **Powder room or entry** — tiny, cheap, done in a weekend. Proof that it can be done.\n2. **Guest bathroom or laundry** — low stakes, low traffic. Mistakes cost almost nothing.\n3. **Home office or guest room** — one function, few pieces, nobody sees it mid-project.\n4. **Bedroom** — bigger, but behind a closed door. Liveable half-done.\n5. **Kitchen and dining** — more money, more decisions. By now they know their taste.\n6. **Living room** — the biggest and most visible. Last, on purpose.\n\nGive the user a specific first room from their own list and say why that one.\n\n## 3. Define finished\n\nA room counts as finished when nothing is left on the mental to-do list. Half-finished rooms drain motivation more than untouched ones. Give this checklist for the first room, adjusted for renters:\n\n- Walls and trim painted, including the touch-ups that keep being postponed. Renters: skip, or ask the landlord once.\n- Lighting handled: fixture or lamp, shade, warm bulbs.\n- Everything hung: art, mirrors, hooks, curtains high and wide.\n- Nothing borrowed: no temporary chair \"until we find the real one\".\n- Clutter has a home: a basket, a drawer, a shelf.\n\n## 4. Take the colour worry away\n\nIf the user fears that rooms will clash: unless they are styling a show home, it does not matter. Nobody sees two rooms at full brightness at once; doorways, walls and time separate them. Keep one or two threads through the home, such as a repeated wood tone, one metal finish or the same white on the trim, and let each room have its own character.\n\n## 5. The weekend loop\n\nGive this as the method for the first room:\n\n1. **Empty it.** Take everything out. Photograph the bare room.\n2. **Decide once.** Pick one direction and commit. No parallel options.\n3. **Bring back less.** Only what earns its place returns.\n\n## 6. Next step\n\nOffer to plan the chosen room: ask for a photo or description, and whether they already have a style in mind.\n\n## Do not\n\n- Do not produce a whole-home plan with every room at once. The point is one room.\n- Do not schedule structural or trade work; say that needs a professional and comes before decorating.\n"
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