We want to bring a fresh approach to house building setting aside the outdated assumptions, which have dogged house building since the 1940’s

Houses are where Life happens.

Houses are where people eat, sleep, wash, cook, talk, work, listen, watch, laugh and live.

Victorian and Edwardian houses were built like a nest of boxes or compartments with separate activities and members of the household (often servants) in each compartment and little space or flexibility.

These days everyone wants to be where the action is – with Mum and /or Dad in the Kitchen and that means the Kitchen must have space not only for cooking, storage and washing-up but eating at a table, sitting in comfort and playing either on the floor or the table.

Often the solution is a Kitchen/ Family/ Dining room, all in one comfortable and generous space preferably with a good connection to the Garden often provided by Folding Sliding Doors or generous French Windows.

The importance of this close connection between the garden outside and the house inside cannot be over stated. It becomes easy to eat outside and for the children to play safely supervised in the Garden.

Add a very comfortable, possibly smaller, quiet room for reading or watching TV away from the rough and tumble of family life. Most people do not use, need or want a separate Dining Room.

Ideally space can be provided for a Utility Room to keep the laundry and muddy stuff out of the Kitchen as well as enough bedrooms, bath/shower rooms etc.

Homes for Life

A ‘Home for Life’, has the flexibility for the space in the house to be divided in a variety of ways, the occupier may have more/smaller rooms or fewer/larger rooms and may configure the rooms to suit their needs.

Naturally ‘Home for Life’ must be flexible for people of all physical and mental capabilities.

There is no question that all new houses must be ‘Eco-Homes’? – Highly insulated, naturally lit, low energy, low water consumption - sitting lightly in their environment.