And a little while later......

Sometimes life happens. And for our family these past few years have seen the end of life journeys for Ben's beautiful Father, Mother and Step Father. Combined with pandemic lock down years and the demise of the building industry, we made the difficult but obvious decision to put our personal renovation project on hold. 

Whilst this meant a ess than ideal situation in our own living environment, we were able to complete our contractual projects for our clients, making time for the final months and days with three treasured family members. So in our grief and the complexity of saying our goodbyes, we are extremely proud to have handed over 25 projects in the past 5 years. Some of these can be seen in our Gallery

 Towards the end of 2023 we finally found some time to breathe and dust off the plans for our very own 'Barry House' project. What became apparent was that we still very much loved the core of the building design. We were also able to refine some areas of the design to reflect the growing needs of our family and introduce some innovations that were newly available on the market. This included the introduction of an attic roof storage, covering about 2/3rds of the ceiling space over the heritage cottage. We engaged our engineer Helen, to rework the structural steel and framing plan to enable this. As luck would have it we were able to secure the services of, in Ben's words, 'one of the best carpentry framers that exists'. Not only was he exceptionally skilled, but he was considerate of the subsequent construction stages and presented ideas to enhance the design. We enjoyed working together and a grateful for this Unicorn resource who changed our project from too hard to happening.