DESIGN MASTERCLASS
Quite a common desire for anyone currently carrying out a self-build, renovation or conversion is the need for their property to act as a futureproofed lifetime home. For anyone with the intention of calling their house a home for the foreseeable future, the priority should be to create a property that has the potential to adapt to changing needs as time progresses. As such, it’s important to communicate to your design team from the off that you want to build a lifetime home and are actively promoting these principles in every area of your self-build project. Your requirements – and therefore the spaces you inhabit – will have to be designed to either change with you or be futureproofed from the start. For example, do you want to have a staircase wide enough in the future to cater for a stairlift, or an area to include a lift shaft at a later
