When clients ask us what we do that makes our building projects so successful, I always tell them the truth – that all we do is produce high quality architectural design work with a solid feasibility study at the start. There are no magic tricks, and frankly, we wish we were the norm rather than the exception.
The thing is, often people run into problems with their house extensions, loft conversions, garden rooms, home makeovers – you name it and we have a hundred horror stories for you. And it’s not down to a few rogue traders or any particular Milton Keynes architects that cause it. It’s just down to one thing – a lack of proper planning.
Here at Building Tectonics, we want to hear your dream or your problem. We love hearing about the home you always wanted to live in, or that your kids just need more space to run around in the winter. But having an open mind is the best route to building something that’s just right.
Above: Don’t fall into a common trap! Just plan ahead… Photo courtesy of illustir
The most common trap that many home owners as well as architects fall into is jumping into the deep end before looking at the problem. If you go straight to a builder and ask for a conservatory, then they’ll build you one – they won’t ask if you mind it being basically a write-off for the whole winter.
Our guiding principal is the art of planning. We just take a step back before diving into a project, and we ask what you really want and need. Then, we do all the leg work to make sure it’s possible, and give you credible, cost-effective solutions when we think something might not be quite right.
Believe us when we say it’s a lot better to discover a problem during planning than it is half way during a build.
At the end of your project, we hope you’ll ask us what happened to make it such an easy success too!
Featured photo (house of cards) courtesy of peterjroberts