Category: Design

In September, we have been doing further design development, with the aim of finalising the building envelope to proceed with the planning application. In consultation with our Planner and Architect, we have adjusted the building envelope to minimise overshadowing of our neighbours’ private open space. This has: We prefer the revised house envelope, due to…

Design Development Quite a bit has been going on behind the scenes in July-August. Although it is still early days in the design process, we are starting to refine some details and getting our design and build team together. This is what we’ve been up to: We had a long meeting with our interior designer,…

The first stage with the architects is concept design / feasibility study. It is a small initial investment to check the feasibility of what we want to do. The concept design was presented by Maxa Design in late June 2026, right on schedule. The concept design meeting was 1.5 hours and included our nominal builder Matthew…