05 · Approach
Most budgets go wrong before a single wall comes down. So the order matters: brief, design, a detailed cost plan, then one contract. The same twelve steps for every home. Sixteen years in prime London, now in Dubai.
05.1 · The four stages
Twelve steps in four stages, the same order for every home. First call to handover pack. The people who draw the home also price it and build it. That is the whole idea.
Before a line is drawn, we need two things. How you live, and what the site will allow. The first price arrives here, not at the end.
Plans, visualisations and samples you can hold. Every decision that moves the price is made here, while it can still change.
The permissions a home needs are our job, not yours. While they run, the drawings become the ones a builder can build from.
The people who drew the home build it. You see what we see, every week. We stay after the keys are yours.
05.2 · Price certainty
A price given before the drawings exist is a guess. We price twice, in the open. The first is a budget estimate. The second is a detailed cost plan, built from the drawings before you sign. That second price is the one you hold.
Early, before a drawing is frozen. Enough to decide whether to go on, and how far.
Every room, every finish, every allowance, priced by the team that will build it.
Design and build under one agreement, with one team accountable for both.
Where something cannot be priced yet, we say so and show the allowance. Nothing is buried in a line you cannot read.
Architecture, interiors, construction and project management under one agreement. If something needs sorting, there is one number to call.
A report every week with photographs of the site. You see what we see, wherever in the world you are.
After handover the same team stays for the defects period, then aftercare. The keys are not the end of it.
05.3 · What you get
05.4 · Next
Send the address or the plan. We will tell you, honestly, what it could become and what it would take.
