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Plan it. Build it. Share it.

Your home projects deserve more than a pretty after photo.

Sawdust is where you plan, build and keep the record of real home projects, and learn from people with your taste who have already done the work. See what things actually cost, avoid the mistakes they made, bring in the people helping you, and get an expert when you are stuck.

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A renovated dining room seen through a plaster arch: a long oak table on a jute rug, a rattan pendant, sage walls and an olive tree. Pinned beside it, a polaroid labeled Before shows the same room with peeling walls and bare carpet. Handwritten notes read Same room. Eleven weeks. Every receipt kept. and Progress over perfection, beside swatches of forest green, terracotta, sand and oak.
Dining room · Completed11 weeks · 23 updates

  • Find your style

    Get inspired by people with similar aesthetics.

  • Learn from real projects

    What worked, what did not, and what they would change.

  • Know the real cost

    The time, materials and money behind the reveal.

  • Protect your work

    Photos, receipts, products and documentation in one place.

  • Show the journey

    Document how your home changed, and when.

  • Build together

    Friends, family and housemates on the same project.

  • Get expert advice

    Vetted pros, when you are stuck.

Find your style

Browse real homes and projects from people whose taste looks like yours. Modern and minimal, cozy and collected, rustic and warm: find the room you keep coming back to, then see exactly how somebody built it.

Browse inspiration
  • A living room with pale oak shelving, ceramics, trailing plants and a linen sofa.

    Modern Organic

  • A reading corner with a worn leather armchair, a vintage rug, thrifted art and stacked books.

    Cozy & Collected

  • A cabin living room with a fieldstone fireplace, timber beams and a plaid throw on a leather sofa.

    Rustic & Cabin

  • A minimal bathroom with a floating oak vanity, a round mirror and matte white tile.

    Minimal & Modern

  • A living room with a forest green wall of shelves, a rust velvet armchair and a patterned rug.

    Colorful & Eclectic

An illustrative Sawdust screen titled Your new design: a sunroom redesigned with a rattan coffee table, a linen sofa, bamboo shades and a table lamp, with a dot on each item. The coffee table's card shows a matched product, a Round Woven Coffee Table from Harbor & Home at $279.00, with buttons to add this item, see all 3 similar items, or add all to the project.

Design it first

See it in your room. Then find the real thing.

Photograph your room, pick a style, and Sawdust redesigns it. Tap anything in the new design to see the closest real products we can find, with the price and the store, and add them straight to your project's item list.

  1. Photograph your room
  2. Pick a style
  3. Tap an item to match it
  4. Add it to your project

Everyone on the project can pitch in.

Collaborators can try designs of their own and pin ideas to the project's vision board, so the whole household weighs in before anything gets bought.

Try a design
An illustration of a man in a cream hoodie and a tool belt, holding a cordless drill.

Lessons learned:

  • Measure twice
  • Buy extra material
  • Use a level. Seriously.
  • Let it cure completely
  • Know when to call a pro

Real projects, real insight

Learn from people who’ve been there.

A Sawdust project keeps more than the reveal. You see what somebody planned, the order they did it in, the products and materials they used, the progress photos, the mistakes, and the answers they gave the next person who asked.

  • What they planned
  • The order of operations
  • Products and materials
  • Progress photos
  • Mistakes and lessons
  • What they would do differently
  • Answers to other builders
Explore project stories

Know the real cost.

A reveal photo tells you what a room looks like. It almost never tells you what it took. Sawdust projects carry the budget, the receipts and the timeline, so you can plan with real numbers from people who already paid them.

See project costs

Example project

Kitchen remodel

$4,320 total cost

Materials
$2,890
Tools
$420
Permits
$250
Other
$760
Start to finish
8 weeks
Project updates
12
Lessons learned
3
Hardware store receipts, a pencil, a tape measure and paint swatches on a wooden workbench.
Real receipts. Real projects. Real people.

Protect your work.

A Sawdust project becomes a lasting record of the work done on your home: what it looked like before, what went in, who did it, and when.

  • Before, progress and after photos
  • Receipts and invoices
  • Products, materials and serial numbers
  • Warranties and contractor details
  • Notes and dates

Useful when you need it:

  • Insurance claims
  • Warranty claims
  • Future maintenance
  • Resale
  • The next owner

Sawdust keeps your documentation. It is not insurance, and it cannot promise how an insurer or manufacturer will treat a claim.

Start documenting
A kraft envelope, printed renovation photographs, a warranty booklet and a handwritten note on green linen.

Show the journey.

Every home has a history. A renovated, restored or flipped house means more when the next person can see how it got there: what changed, when, why, what went into it, and what it cost.

  1. A small bathroom before: beige tile with dark grout, a laminate vanity and a plain mirror.
    Before
  2. The same bathroom mid-renovation: backer board, green tile half laid, plumbing exposed and a tile saw.
    Progress
  3. The same bathroom finished: sage green zellige tile, an oak vanity and brass fixtures.
    After

Keep the record as you go, and it is there to share when you sell: the story behind the improvements, alongside the listing.

See how it worksAn illustration of a man in glasses and a tool belt, checking a tablet.
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Better projects, together.

Build together.

Projects rarely belong to one person. Invite a partner, a roommate, a parent or the friend who owns the tile saw. Everyone on the project sees the same record.

  • Share progress
  • Add ideas
  • Comment
  • Upload photos
  • Track tasks
  • Record purchases
  • Celebrate milestones

Bathroom · this week

  • Jess added 14 photos to Tile, day 3
  • Sam recorded a purchase: Thinset, 2 bags, $38
  • Mom ticked off Pick grout color
Invite your crew

Invite only, for now

Join a community that builds better.

People working on real homes, documenting honestly, sharing what they learned and asking the experts when it matters. Progress over perfection.

Sawdust is in closed beta and invite-only. Armard reads every request.

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