Our client for a house extension in Twickenham recently stressed the importance of showing before and after images to highlight the impressive difference between the existing building and the extended and refurbished one. Their existing house presented some significant issues with internal steps and changes of ceiling level (a consequence of many subsequent extensions carried out in the past) and our project resolved all this issue providing at the same time an additions room.
For most projects it is important to show where you started, in order to explain in more detail the reasons behind the initial brief from the client and the subsequent decisions.
As a practice we work in a bespoke fashion for all the projects we undertake, and we place attention on the clients’ initial brief.
This gave us the idea of preparing a "project schedule" section within our blog with some key project information.
The schedules are also an opportunity to discuss the projects in a more informal way highlighting the challenges that we encountered while designing our extensions or refurbishments, but also discussing the client’s feedback and our experience working with all the other actors involved in the construction process in particular contractors, structural engineers, party wall surveyors, building control etc...
We will also discuss some planning matters, for projects that were in Conservation Areas that naturally present additional challenges.
In this sense the schedules complement the information that is already available in our projects page.
The first seven schedules are now live on our website, please click on the links below: