Your Build

I have an interest in making projects that make a real difference to how clients use their buildings in a cost effective way. With the experience of self building I have learnt methods that inform economical construction and how I design as an architect.

With rapidly increasing labour and material costs self-building can provide a thrifty means to achieving a beautiful project. The Secret Garden Flat was self built because we couldn’t afford to employ a main contractor.

In the design we utilised materials we knew we could work with, skills we already possessed and ones we knew could learn.

We sort out alternative types and sources for materials, understood what was beyond our capabilities and where necessary employed the relevant expertise.

If self-building or managing your own build is of interest to you I can provide a design that is suitable