As you’ll all know architects and architect meetings are the bane of my live and have the ability to get under my skin as i feel it’s a dark art that is often quite closed and the information flow in the beginning just isn’t helpful to the process, but today i feel enlightened once again. We met with the new
So does screaming and shouting get somewhere or is it just timing and the gods sense of irony? Today and well this week as a whole the process has taken great leaps forward and now we actually have time scales and the ability to get a more accurate cost plan for some of the work now things have been confirmed.
As promised here is the Google SketchUp model for you to play with. The model is the first bit of work we have from David who took the previous contractors ArchiCAD drawings and converted it for us so that we could pan around the property and get some sizes etc etc . In time we will of course release the
We are just watching on TV “Grand Designs“, a UK based building program, and watched in horror as one mans dream home fell apart due to a lack of written agreed planning consent and neighbours who threatened legal action through to judicial review. A judicial review would have tied up planning for a decade and the proposed solution was to
There is an update to this post at the bottom of this article. So with the job up on ELance we are getting a staggering response to our request for some help modifying the plans. This is all great and encouraging, however some people seem to be having issues downloading the provided files so its time we made them available
Please note there is an update at the bottom of this post dated 21 Jan 09 It’s no secret that we feel we’ve had a total disaster with our first architect and while i want to vent my spleen and name and shame there comes a point where you have to accept that people run into unexpected circumstances that impact
UPDATE 08/02/09 : Please note these plans have now been superseded with the use of a new architecht. Please see newer posts or search PLANS in the search box ( top right ) As promised we are posting up our house plans in an “as is” state at present. These small images below click through to the main Flickr gallery
