Our clear and proven design process carries your vision from first conversation to finished home, taking the stress and complexity out of the journey.
As a small, family-run studio, you'll work directly with the people designing your home. We listen first: you're at the centre of every decision, and we want you to feel excited and confident in the vision we're bringing to life.
After your initial consultation, every project follows the same phased process, with technical services tailored to suit your home, from sustainability assessments to immersive 3D visualisation. It's how we design homes across Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire.
Every project starts with a conversation in the place that matters most: your home. During this unrushed, 90-minute visit, Philip reads how your home functions and listens to how you want to live.
Together you'll explore design ideas, planning considerations, structural and building regulations essentials, and how to work successfully with builders, with plenty of time for questions.
Afterwards, you'll receive a written quotation with clear fixed fees, ready to review in your own time.
See What Your Home Could Become.
The Design Options Study is a complete written design report exploring the different directions your project could take, revealing potential that isn't obvious at first glance.
Your study begins with a full analysis of your property and setting: existing plans and elevations, how light tracks across the site, and the opportunities and constraints that shape any design. We then develop a series of worked design options with floor plans, site plans and precedent imagery, always considering how your home connects to its garden and landscape.
Alongside the designs: considered advice on planning strategy, landscaping and budget, and a clear roadmap for your preferred direction.
The study is an optional, standalone commission with its own fixed fee and no further obligations. The report is yours to keep. Take it forward with us, or even take it to another designer. We simply think it's the clearest way to start.
Start with Precision. Design with Confidence.
Before we design anything, we read your home and its setting in detail. Using our in-house Leica equipment, we combine over 70 laser scans into a single point cloud model, accurate to 5mm, from which we create precise 2D plans, elevations, sections and 3D models.
The scan captures everything: floor and ceiling levels, wall thicknesses, sloping ceilings, even walls that aren't quite straight. We also record how your home sits in its landscape, from garden levels and drainage to planning history and neighbouring context. Because we survey in-house, we can revisit the raw data at any time.
Proposals that are accurate from the start progress smoothly to the end.
Refining Ideas into a Vision.
We listen first. With your brief agreed, we explore concept options together, starting with floor plans or 3D massing. Through collaborative design meetings, we blend your preferences with our ideas and considered advice. You make the decisions, we're here to guide you.
As the design evolves, a detailed 3D model tests layout, flow and natural light, and how the new spaces open your home to its garden and the landscape beyond. In full-colour render, you'll experience how your future home feels before final sign-off.
These models are so clear, we often use them on-site to guide construction.
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Navigating Planning with Clarity.
Securing planning permission is a key milestone, and one we've navigated more than 500 times across Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire. We manage the whole process, using our local insight to give your application the strongest chance of success.
We read planning constraints early and treat them as creative opportunities, turning potential hurdles into smarter design outcomes. For complex cases, we work with trusted specialists: planning consultants, ecologists, arborists and heritage experts.
To support your case, we often include 3D visuals, especially valuable on sensitive or historic sites, helping planners see exactly how your design sits within its landscape.
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Getting Every Detail Right.
With planning approved, we translate your design into technical drawings: the blueprints your build will follow. Our building regulations drawings meet all statutory requirements, covering structure and fire safety, while supporting smooth construction on site.
Local contractors trust our plans as the basis for accurate quotes, contracts and the build itself, and builders often recommend us for the clarity of our drawings. As energy assessors, we integrate smart, sustainable design as standard, coordinating with structural engineers and other specialists to resolve every detail before work begins.
Getting the technical detail right delivers the home you imagined, with no costly surprises.
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Choosing the Right Builder with Confidence.
A successful project depends on the right builder, and a clear tendering process helps you find them. We typically recommend a competitive tender: we prepare full drawings and specifications, then invite a shortlist of trusted local contractors to price the work.
We'll help you weigh each quote on more than cost alone: programme, build quality and working style all matter. The best contractors stick to the brief, communicate clearly and take pride in a great finish.
Like us, the building firms we work with are reliable, family-run and local, relationships built over years that help your project run smoothly from day one.
From Contract to Completion, We’re With You.
With detailed plans, a signed JCT contract and a trusted builder in place, construction begins. This is where the design comes to life, and our involvement keeps everything on track.
As contract administrator and lead designer, we act as your representative throughout, monitoring progress, issuing instructions, certifying stage payments and coordinating between you and the contractor, so your design is delivered exactly as intended.
A well-managed build protects your budget, timescale and peace of mind. We resolve issues before they become problems, safeguard your design's bespoke details, and guide any on-site changes with flexibility and control.
From breaking ground to final handover, we make construction as smooth and rewarding as the design that came before it.
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