The Design Brief May 2009

What follows is how we chose to develop our thoughts on what we wanted from our future home.

Some guidance from Colin:

'You may have already have thought about this but for the project brief the following could be some things to consider, you will have others too.

Concept
Things that inspire you about houses and that you would like
Ideas and images
Materials
Relationship of spaces i.e. what rooms should be linked
Views
Sustainability
Space, total area.
Services
What is most important
Cost (probably this will be near the top of the list)"
(Yeh right Colin!!)

We prepared a design brief document which you can download here and compiled a scrap book of pictures with comments to illustrate to Colin what we liked and what we didn't like. You can download the whole scrap book here or look at the individual pages below

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The Fjord Hus deserves special mention. This is the house that the original detailed planning permission related to. We actually liked it a lot and found Craig Richardson of Fjord House at Galashiels incredibly helpful. However it just wasn't for us. And now for some examples of things we didn't like...
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