Read a home, before you take it apart.
Objects know how to tell a story — of the people we love, and of the time that made them. We help a family read a home: object by object, story by story. So that what is precious is not lost to unknowing, and memory is not left without words.
WHEN YOU NEED THIS
Clearing a loved one's home
This is hard work, and it should not be done in haste. We help you understand what stands before you: what belongs in a museum, what is valuable, what is dear to your family alone — and that "alone" means "most of all".
Keeping the stories in a lifetime
The Home Chronicle is a gift to parents. Unhurried conversations about the objects that surrounded a family for decades. Stories set down while there is still someone to tell them.
Moving out of a large home
A home changes — the chronicle remains. What to take, what to pass on to children, what to let go of with gratitude: we help you decide calmly, and just once.
HOW IT HAPPENS
A home can be cleared in a week. Read — in an attentive month.
The second takes longer, and it stays forever. Six steps, not one of them in haste.
Conversation
We begin with a talk: whose home this is, what matters to you, how much time we have. You set the pace.
Photography
Following a simple guide, you photograph the home room by room — or our specialist does it.
Reading
Each object receives its reading: what it is, from which era, what is established and what is probable. Honestly, with every term translated.
Sorting
Four piles: museum-worthy · valuable · dear as memory · everyday. The third is not what's left over. It is the heart of the home.
Decisions
For each object, one of three: keep, pass on, let go. With an explanation of why — and without pressure.
The Chronicle
The result is the book of the home: the objects, their readings and your stories. It stays with every branch of the family, even when the objects scatter to different addresses.
LET GO WITH DIGNITY
Not everything needs to be kept. Some objects are better given away, sold, or passed to a museum. We call this "letting go with dignity": the object is photographed, its story set down in the chronicle — the memory stays in the family, the object goes on living elsewhere. Without guilt: this is not parting with memory, it is keeping it.
If you decide to sell something valuable — we help you do it calmly. We don't buy our clients' objects and take no percentage from buyers — we advise only in your interest.
THE CHRONICLE
A printed book — or a considered file, if that suits you better. Inside: the plan of the home and its rooms · photographs of the objects · their readings · stories told by the family · who received what. A passed-on object keeps a passport: the new keeper receives it together with its story.
FORMATS
The chronicle yourself
A photography guide, readings of every object, a chronicle template. For those who want to walk the path themselves.
The chronicle, accompanied
Everything the same — with a curator alongside: questions for the stories, assembling and printing the book. It can be given as a gift: a certificate for parents.
A specialist comes to you
Photographs and helps on the spot. Within the launch city, by arrangement.
QUESTIONS
No. We read objects and help a family with decisions. For an official appraisal we will recommend a licensed appraiser — and hand over the catalogue already assembled, which shortens their work.
No, never. That is why our readings can be trusted: we have no reason to understate.
Only those you invite. The data is kept by us, is not passed to third parties, and is deleted at your request. Anything published is only by your explicit decision.
Say so in your request. There is a fast path: first everything is photographed — decisions can be made afterwards, when there is time to breathe.
MAKE A REQUEST
A home can be cleared in a week. What remains — is read.
Describe the home in two lines — we'll come back with a format and a timeframe. No obligation.