Design Buy Build Issue 35 2018 | Page 28

If you had a muddy, wet dog with you for example. Or a bicycle. Or a child. Or multiples of all three. The project started in August 2014 and spent two years in the design stages. With the owners we poured over every detail. We visited joinery shops and window manufacturers together. We tendered, value engineered and then tendered again. Despite numerous increases in scope resulting in the refurbishment of the entire house, the project was delivered well ahead of the Christmas deadline and £12,000 under the £400,000 budget limit. Construction commenced in February 2017, and upon completion in December the owners exclaimed the house was "exactly the game-changer they had hoped it would be." Photo Credit: Matt Clayton www.mattclaytonphotography.co.uk [email protected] www.robertrhodes.co.uk 28