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Design Consultation

The visit

To kick start your home improvement project, we’ll get together with you for an architect’s design consultation. This is where your ideas start to come to life. It’s a thorough process where we learn more about your property and help you explore what you want to gain from your home improvement. 

From this discussion, your architect will create initial design concepts and architectural sketches and guide you through the home improvement process. With plenty of experience and superb knowledge of local homes and council planning policies, they will be able to advise you on potential construction issues, planning, build-over agreements, and party wall considerations.

The design consultation will be either a 4 hour or 7-hour visit, depending on the size of your project. It is available as a home visit or a virtual consultation.

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What happens in an architect’s design consultation?

The design consultation can take place either in your home or virtually via a video call. In each case, our architect will:

  1. Have an in-depth discussion with you about your aims and requirements.
  2. Create hand-drawn sketches to visualise and explain the design options.
  3. Discuss the virtues of the options with you and adapt them as required
  4. Have an agreed sketch design by the end of the visit so that you are ready to move your project forward.
  5. Explain the necessary statutory consents, party wall agreements and so on, and how we can help you apply and get approval for these.
  6. As an independent and impartial consultant, we can talk honestly about budget and builders and help manage your expectations.
  7. Explain what the next steps of your project will be and how we can help. We are flexible, so how much you use our architect’s services is up to you – we can be with you all the way or just for the next few stages.

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The four hour visit

A four-hour design visit is the best option if you are planning to have work done to just one area or level of your home, such as a kitchen extension or loft conversion.

After the meeting, we send you the outcome of the meeting along with a list of the next stage services you will require to move your project forward to the planning application stage.

The seven hour visit

This is suitable for a project encompassing more than one area of your home, such as a kitchen extension plus loft conversion, or a total house renovation.

After the meeting, we send you the outcome of the meeting along with a list of the next stage services you will require to move your project forward to the planning application stage.

Online visit

We offer our architects design visit as a virtual service, as well as a home visit. This means you can still access our unparalleled experience and expertise to get your home improvement project underway and submitted for planning permission as soon as possible.

After the meeting, we send you the outcome of the meeting along with a list of the next stage services you will require to move your project forward to the planning application stage.

What happens after the design consultation?

After the visit, your architect will take these initial drawings back to their office to tidy them up and add useful notes. They will upload them to our design portal within 3-4 working days, along with a list of further services your project will require. A hard copy of the plans will be posted out to you.

The next stage of your home improvement project involves making final decisions about your extension, conversion or renovation and commissioning supplementary architect’s drawings.

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Our online project portal helps you keep track of your home improvement, storing everything secure in one place. The portal allows you to authorise work, check invoices, message your architect, and upload or download your documents.

Are you ready to start your home improvement project?

Don’t forget, you have complete control. You can engage us to provide a full service from start to finish, or ask us to support you on particular key stages. Our flexible approach allows you to choose the right level of help for your project. Get in touch today to see how to bring your dream home to life.