A relaxed consultation, in your home or online, followed by an in depth respectful review of your architect’s plans, with thoughtful consideration given to your design brief.
As with all areas of Thistle & Wild Design’s practice, this is tailored to you & your home.
Why people come to me when they’re working with an architect:
Some clients have a niggling feeling that something about their design just doesn’t feel quite right, whilst others can pinpoint specific areas of the floor plan that they would like me
to work on.
Some feel they have been looking at their plans for so long, that they can no longer reach a decision. It isn’t unusual for clients to work with an architect and an interior designer.
Are you putting off approving your plans?
Thistle & Wild Design can help.
I am here to listen, offer a fresh pair of experienced eyes & ears and provide a design solution to enable you to progress your project.
Clients have usually been thinking about renovating or redesigning their home for months or years. It’s a big step to engage an architect, consider multiple designs and reach the stage when you need to trust your decision to sign off plans which will become your home and all the consideration, money and emotions which come with that.
Not every project needs major design amendments to make a big difference to the way you live & feel in your home.
Clients come to me for a second opinion to make sure they’ve not missed anything and to see if the design can be improved upon.
Below, a client describes the impact a review & seemingly small redesign had on their
family home:
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+ We begin with a relaxed consultation online or in your home if you’re local to Manchester. We talk through your original design brief and consider how it may have evolved.
+ We discuss the architect’s plans and with your brief fresh in everyone’s mind, we walk around your home to gain a greater understanding of the current layout, its potential and the aspect to ensure we’re working with, and not against, the natural light. If we’re meeting online we’ll use the plan and photos you have shared to do this.
+ Following the consultation, you’ll receive a fee proposal. This is informed by the specifics of your project which we will take our time to discuss during your consultation.
+ If you would like to go ahead, you’ll receive a request for 60% payment, payable before further work commences with the balance due following our next meeting.
+ In the studio, work begins by reflecting on our conversations and taking an in depth review of your architect’s drawings, with thoughtful consideration given to your updated design brief and existing house footprint. I work on the floor plan you have provided to mark up a proposal.
+ We’ll meet online, or in person, to walk & talk through the design proposal to help you visualise yourself in your home. We can tweak the design if needed.
+ Following our meeting, you’ll receive a payment request for the balance and when this has been received, you’ll receive your proposal by email.
+ You can then arrange to meet your architect to discuss the changes you would like to make to enable them to update your drawings.
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+ Your updated design brief+ A digitally marked up floor plan. I annotate and digitally sketch onto the floor plan you have provided to illustrate the proposed design changes.
NB: Thistle & Wild do not provide updated architectural drawings. The ‘After’ drawings shown in the projects section of the website were updated by the clients’ architects.
+ A written document which explains each amendment and addition to the design.
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+ Please do have a friendly chat with your architect before booking your consultation, so they know you’re asking Thistle & Wild Design to take a look at the drawings. This is a good opportunity to ask if there will be an additional fee to update the drawings.+ I work solely within the footprint of the architect’s design.
+ The digitally marked up floor plan does not constitute a construction or planning drawing. Your next step is to meet with your architect and discuss the design changes you wish you make to enable them to update your drawings before they are submitted to planning.
+ Direct any planning permission questions you may have to your architect.
+ Design changes Thistle & Wild have implemented have saved people a considerable amount of money but some design changes will add to the cost of the build. Part of the review process is to consider if savings can be made and I will explain in the proposal document if a design change is likely to save money or incur an additional build cost.
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The fee and payment is in two phases.Phase One £275
+ Preparing for your consultation; reading & considering your design brief, studying your existing house plans & the architects’ drawings, considering initial ideas and, if you’ve booked an online consultation, studying your photos and videos.
+ ConsultationPhase Two
+ Following our consultation, you’ll receive a fee proposal. This is informed by the specifics of your project which we will take our time to discuss during your consultation.
+ As a guide, fees typically range from £250 - £575
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