All great architecture begins with a great site. Before you start planning your dream home, you need to know where it’s going! We can show you some site that may suit your needs, we can walk through a potential site you’ve found and discuss its viability. Once we get that nailed, we’ll send you a letter of engagement.

Once you have a site, and we have a picture of your requirements, we can involve the relevant industry architect and engineer to design your new home. If you don’t have someone in mind, we can recommend whose approach suits the budget and project in mind. Best in class for you! Once you’re happy with your concept plans, we can move on to pricing.

To start the costing process, we sign a short form agreement to allow us to act for you whilst pricing your new home. Cost for this is minimal but partially covers our time, but also allows us to know we have your commitment.

This time is credited when signing the Master Build Contract. We provide a full and transparent picture of costs with an itemised budget breakdown. We run you through each item, answering any questions you may have. Once you’re happy with where your money is going, we sign the Master Build Contract. Staged payments are invoiced at the detail’s stages – other than the initial deposit, you are only every pay for work that is completed.

Once a contract is signed, the fun stuff begins!! You will be set up with our interior designer to help make the decisions on fixtures, fittings, materials and colours.

Next, we get the site ready for the foundation to be laid by clearing vegetation, excavating and filling as needed. Then we tailor the foundation formwork to the site like a custom suit, then the concrete is next. The foundation pour is always an exciting milestone as you will finally see the footprint of your house on the site.

The building really comes to life at this stage as the wall frames and roof trusses are going up. Changes to the house begin to happen quite rapidly and you can walk into your rooms. The roof goes on, the windows are installed and the building is made weathertight.

Your house starts to look like your home as your colours and design start to come to light. The exterior cladding is installed, you’ll walk through with the Project Manager to sign off your plumbing and electrical layout, as well as discussing any additional blocking needs for TV’s, shelving, paintings etc. We then start working on the inside of your home including plumbing, wiring, insulation and then lining and plastering.

All the internal work is underway now. The paint and/or wallpaper go up, the kitchen and bathroom ware is fitted and the flooring goes down. We really put the Project Manager and Interior Designer to work overseeing the subcontractors and making sure everything is finished to a high standard and to your specs.

The scaffolding will be down by now, your new home emerges and everything is in place, its time for the final finishing touches. The site is tided and cleaned, the landscaping (if that is part of the scope) is underway, and too your relief the portaloo and skip will be taken away.