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The Seasonally Kept Home Binder
A printable home binder for new homeowners and movers.
$14 41-page PDF · color and ink-saver versions · instant download
Digital download, nothing ships. Checkout and delivery are handled by Gumroad.
Why a binder
One calm, organized place for every answer.
A new home comes with a hundred small questions. Where’s the water shutoff? When was the furnace last serviced? What was that paint color called?
The Home Binder gives every answer one calm, organized place to live, and shows you what to look after each season, so small jobs never turn into big ones. It’s for first-time buyers, renters settling into a new place, and anyone in the middle of a move. It’s warm, practical and easy to use. It isn’t a cluttered planner you’ll abandon by February.
Who it’s for
- You just got the keys, and the closing folder is still on the counter.
- You’re moving in the next couple of months and want the whole thing on paper.
- You rent now, and want good records before you buy.
- You’ve been in the house a while and still don’t know which breaker is the kitchen.
- You’re looking for a closing, housewarming or first-home gift.
What’s inside
41 pages, in the order you’ll need them.
- Welcome page, how-to-use guide and contents
- Home at a Glance: the house, the paperwork, everyday details, and the measurements you always forget (filter size, anyone?)
- Key contacts
- Moving timeline from 8 weeks out to moving day, plus an open-first box list
- Change-of-address checklist
- Your first 30 days: safety first, then getting to know the house
- Room-by-room inventory (2 pages) and paint and finish records (2 pages)
- Appliance and warranty log with 16 appliance cards
- Utilities and service providers
- Emergency shutoffs for water, gas and electric, with plain-language guidance
- Electrical panel map (42 circuits)
- Emergency contacts, a household plan, and a kit checklist based on Ready.gov
- A Year of Keeping: how the seasons work together
- Four seasonal checklists, Spring Thaw, Summer Porch, Fall Harvest and Winter Hearth, each with outdoor and indoor tasks, a pros-to-book table and notes
- Monthly maintenance calendar, January to December
- This week’s small job: a 52-week tracker with a suggested 10-to-20-minute job for every week
- Home projects wish list and project planner
- Annual home budget and expense log
- Contractor quote comparison and service and repair history
- Lined and dot-grid notes pages
A look inside
Real pages from the binder.
Page 4 · Home at a Glance 
Page 17 · Emergency shutoffs 
Page 18 · Electrical panel map 
Page 25 · Fall, Harvest checklist 
Page 31 · This week’s small job, weeks 1 to 26
Shown in the color version. The ink-saver version has the same pages on white.
What you get
Two PDFs, ready to print.
- Files
- 2 PDFs. A full-color version on warm linen tones, and an ink-saver version on white with the same pages.
- Size
- US Letter, 8.5 by 11 inches
- Format
- Static printable. Print it and write in it.
- Delivery
- Instant download through Gumroad
- Use
- Print as many copies as you need for your own home
How to use it
An afternoon to start.
- Download and print, single-sided if you can.
- Hole-punch the pages and slip them into a 1 to 1.5 inch three-ring binder.
- Fill in the essentials first: the shutoffs, the panel map and Home at a Glance.
- Open each season’s checklist as it arrives, and do this week’s small job.
Good to know
- This is a digital product. Nothing will be shipped.
- Colors may look slightly different on different screens and printers.
- For personal use only. Please don’t resell or share the files.
- The binder offers general home-care guidance. Always follow your manufacturers’ instructions and local codes, and hire licensed professionals for gas, electrical, roofing and structural work.
- Something wrong with your file? Email [email protected] and we’ll make it right.
For someone else
A good closing gift.
Print it, tuck it in a binder, and tie it with a ribbon. It’s the present a new homeowner uses every season.
Ready when you are