Homebuilding & Renovating

How to complete your house design

The key to successfully building a home that meets your needs within your budget is design. Design defines your agenda and getting it right is essential to understand how best to build and make sure construction both starts properly and flows efficiently throughout the course of the project.

Having planning consent doesn’t mean you have enough information to start building — you’ll need a host of other design information to sign off planning conditions, fix construction costs, as well as figuring out how to build the house and those individual features that define the look and feel you’re after.

‘‘Design not only works out how best to build but also makes sure everything meets regulations and ensures the house meets your expectations”

Completing the design

Completing the design isn’t as simple as getting hold of a set of construction drawings. It’s much more about the process of working out what you want and how to achieve

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