TONY HOLT DESIGN | INTERNAL DESIGN REVIEWS

Upon meeting the homeowner and examining her floor plans, it became evident that her lifestyle needs were overlooked. After conducting a thorough design review and meticulous spatial planning, we proposed straightforward modifications that significantly enhanced her project.

While exhibiting at the Home Building & Renovating Show earlier this year, we met several homeowners and self-builders at an advanced stage in their project, that did not feel entirely comfortable with the architectural design.

After talking through our design process, they felt their experience fell short in terms of the flair and creativity required to achieve something special. There appeared to be a gap between what had been produced against what was needed. In most cases, they expressed that ideas and inspiration were driven by them.

We have since realised that our service always goes beyond what appears to be perceived as a ‘typical architectural service’. On every project, we adopt a thorough exploration of design solutions and how they align with clients’ lifestyle needs. This reflects our wider belief that thorough exploration should be executed for something as important as your own home. This enables us to uncover and assess the best possible solutions, delivered while focusing on delivering quality internal and external spaces and balancing all the project constraints and opportunities.

For many people carrying out small developments including extensions, the level of design available can be limited. Architects and designers are often appointed based on their location and not an aligned portfolio. We are seeing this shortfall of design development in all areas including, spatial arrangement, external breakout spaces and particularly the handling of materials and proportions for external aesthetics. Having attended self-build exhibitions for over a decade we’ve always experienced this shortfall in design services available for domestic projects. For this reason, we offer a much broader process, that when followed undoubtedly provides a more complete design solution. This can avoid the dreaded uncertainty, often faced by homeowners and self-builders in the later stages of building projects.