Remodeling Your Relationships

Truehome products offer exercises designed to help you create an effective project team. Learn how to overcome differences in priorities with your partner or house mates. Manage relationships with professionals and avoid unnecessary risk.

Making Dual Decisions

A home is a profoundly emotional environment. Designing a living space with a spouse often brings those emotions to the forefront. Everyone has their own ideas and turf issues often come to the forefront. There’s a lot of money involved and that adds to the stress. It can be overwhelming.

We believe it is better to face these issues early in the process of buying, building, or remodeling a home. Avoid relationship conflicts and build a better project by creating a positive and workable decision-making process so everyone can win.

Remodeling Your Mate

Changes in the architecture or decor of a living space can resolve minor and major relationship conflicts that occur over and over again in the home. He is neat and she is not. One partner likes to talk and the other wants to hide. One watches TV while the other bangs pots in the kitchen.

It is easier to mold your environment to ease these minor irritations than to “remodel” the behavior of your family members or roommates. Learn tips and techniques for bringing peace and harmony into your home.

Transform your design by using a Truehome Life Coach

Truehome technology was used for almost a decade in an award-winning residential architecture firm before coming to the Internet. Many of those projects were designed using a breakthrough method. A Life Coach or therapist was included on the design team!

When a professional who understands your emotional needs teams up with an architect or interior designer who understands how to implement them...it becomes possible to tailor your living space more accurately to who you are and how you live.

Privacy and Intimacy

We all have needs that relate to intimacy and privacy. Truehome shows you how to manage them in an entirely different way. We all want to be alone at times, and intimate at others.

Every human being regulates his or her interpersonal boundaries many times a day. Like a cell membrane, this natural process allows some requests for intimacy to pass through, and keeps others out.

But sometimes these cycles don’t match in a relationship and feelings get hurt.

Couples, parents, children, and others who live in close quarters often fall into unconstructive patterns of behavior when these daily rhythms are not aligned. One wants more intimacy, feels insecure, and needs support. The other feels smothered and desires more personal space.

To complicate matters, a few hours later they may switch roles. Truehome helps family members and roommates negotiate these issues so bonds are strengthened.

Professional Relationships

Buying, building, or remodeling a home is risky business. A report by the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and the Consumer Federation of America found that home improvement contracting was the top complaint category in the United States in 2005, and in the five previous years had been one of the top three areas of consumer complaints.

Real estate agents also have an image problem. According to a May 2006 Harris Poll, only 7% of consumers trust real estate professionals completely, and 20% don’t trust them at all!

 Architects and Interior designers are sometimes seen as prima donnas who want to impose their visions on their clients.

Builders and contractors often struggle to gain trust from their clients, too. Many people see them as greedy, inconsiderate, or incompetent.

Most professionals are sincere competent people who do their best to serve their clients, but in a world where a few bad apples have given a bad reputation to the whole barrel, we help you tailor your professional relationships to fit your needs.

And we help you protect yourself from taking unnecessary risks.

Good relationships are critical to creating a team that can implement the deep criteria that are developed during your journey to your Truehome.

Our Major Projects and Lifestyle Editions offer a series of exercises called Remodeling Your Relationships.

Those exercises help you avoid conflict with your housemates, show you how to alter your architecture to avoid conflict, and aid you in discovering professionals who match your unique goals.

In 2008, Truehome’s Professional Matching Service will launch and allow you to find Professionals that match you exact needs.

(Available by the Fall of 2007)