CLOSER LOOK: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO YOUR HOME

In addition to a designer, it’s likely that you’ll need the expertise of several other consultants to help bring your dream home to fruition. It’ll be your architect’s job to lead and manage these individual consultants to ensure their requirements work with the overall design of the house. They will also coordinate the team to provide necessary information at relevant stages of the project. There is a growing use of design and build companies and multi-discipline consultants that could provide the best of both worlds for your scheme. The former often provide an all-in-one turnkey package with design, planning and construction all included. Whichever route you go for, make sure you actually meet the people who will be designing your home. Ideally, you should also check that they are architects well-versed in residential projects. If so, then you may have a good designer, associated consultants and a potential builder wrapped in one bundle.