Most of our projects start with one room and grow. So each service stands on its own, and none of them assumes you have already decided how far this goes.
The direction the whole project is then held to: what each room is for, what it is made of, and how it takes the light it actually gets. It is the cheapest stage to change your mind in, so we spend real time here.
Where the walls, doors and services go, and what that costs in floor area. Often the stage that finds the extra room you thought you would have to build — a moved door is cheaper than an extension.
The room, modelled and lit the way it will actually be lit, before anyone orders joinery. Not a sales render — a check. Roughly one in three projects changes something structural after seeing this.
The drawings a maker builds from without ringing us. Hinges, reveals, edge profiles, the run of the grain — the decisions that separate built-in storage from a cupboard, and the ones nobody notices when they go right.
Half a day on site with a tape and a camera. We measure what is there, listen to how the rooms are actually used, and write it down as a brief you sign off before anything is drawn.
Direction before detail: two plan options, a material palette, and where the light falls. Two options rather than twenty — a long menu moves the decision from us to you, which is not what you hired us for.
Plans, elevations and sections at the scale a builder quotes from. Approvals go in here, and this is the last comfortable moment to move a wall.
Joinery drawn at 1:5, and at 1:1 where a maker would otherwise have to guess. The material schedule closes with nothing left to interpret on site.
We visit weekly while it is built, hold the schedule against what arrives, and snag the whole thing before you move back in.
“A summer house takes real punishment — sand, salt, wet towels, fourteen people at Easter. Mira specified for that, not for a photograph. Three years on the floors have gone the colour we were told they would, and the house looks better than the day we got the keys.”
“We'd been through one renovation where the drawings and the invoices were clearly different documents. Here the joiner quoted from the same set we'd designed with. The price we agreed in February is the price we paid in September, and I still don't quite believe it.”
“Taking only four projects a year sounded like a constraint when we signed. It turned out to be the reason we could call on a Tuesday and get an answer that day. We were never a file someone had to reopen.”
