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

Planning the layout of the house has been the hardest thing we’ve had to decide on.  Do we go for high style on the inside which ultimately affects the look of the outside or do we stick with what we have and compromise on size, light and what we see as quality of living space? This was a hard exercise

There are 2 things I have an enormous passion for – Learning – I love to learn about everything and Food/ cooking. I LOVE food. I love food more than most things and I love fresh ingredients. You probably don’t know how much of a keen  gardener and cook I am too… probably because currently we live in South-East London

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

PLAN, PLAN & PLAN, any renovation needs clear planning. If watching all the renovation programs and disasters has taught us anything it’s that “failure is not to plan; planning is not to fail” (sorry for the fortune cookie wisdom). We’ve watched in stunned silence at the way some people have run their renovations, with all the good will in the