In this ongoing project, the client’s desire for additional accommodation to a B-Listed Victorian cottage in Garelochhead created an opportunity for us to enhance the relationship between the architecture and the sumptuous natural surroundings.

Sometimes it is the garden, rather than the interior that inspires a building’s reconfiguration. Sometimes it is both. Spending time in the kitchen while overseeing a growing family play in the garden is not an uncommon activity for parents.

If you are a ‘first time’ client and have never worked with an architect nor built anything before, you will have many, many questions. In fact, you may even be uncertain about what the right questions are to ask! We understand how you feel because almost all our clients have been first time clients.

Our remodelling of this striking Victorian villa with an unforgettable view and proximity to the sea, includes a ground floor space which will become the new spatial and social centre of gravity of the house.

Buildings resist adaptation. They prefer to be built only once. Their structural arrangement, construction, orientation, character, and location all contribute to their resistance to change.

Our ongoing site works to a Grade A listed mansion by Alexander Thomson is nearing completion.

Richard Sennet describes “doing something well for its own sake” as the definition of craft, whether it is woodworking or parenting.

Over 50 years ago, Peter and Margaret Aldington designed and built their own house in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.

Keeping us safe, dry and warm is the minimum requirement of any building. Beyond shelter, buildings can also be catalysts and facilitators in influencing our behaviour and solving our problems.

We refine our designs as we progress through a project’s development. This applies particularly to important details which are crucial to the overall experience of a space.

Projects set in areas of outstanding natural beauty or involving listed buildings often undergo intense scrutiny by Planning Departments.

An unused backyard is being transformed into a new family space for relaxing, eating and enjoying the garden.

Architect/Academic John Brennan’s new book, ‘Scotland’s Rural Home’ examines the timeless activity of creating a home in the countryside.

From your end it’s your place and responds to you. It tells a lot about you and seen by others, it corresponds to you. You say things like, I haven’t got this room right’ and then when it’s ‘right’, you find it lovable.

Do you sometimes look back on something and realise now how much better it would have been, had more thought been put into it at the time?

A modest house extension takes about a year to realise from commissioning an architect to the final occupation of the completed project. A new build family home can take around twice that time.