A plan of action

We have an architect coming to chat, examine, wander, wonder… how exciting.

It’s all rather fanciful as we can’t do any major work on the house just yet, but the idea is that we might have a more cohesive plan if we get an architect to help us to consolidate our ideas and hopefully come up with some good ones of his own.

I think I have a good sense of how things work.  How a household functions, how you need to move between rooms, that kind of thing.

Ian is best on detail, especially given a remit.  For example, in London I dictated that kitchen cupboard handles shouldn’t catch, should be easy to hold, and shouldn’t be shiny – then Ian went away and found great handles.  And he’s much better on space than I am… I could imagine a staircase would be best in that corner… Ian can work out if it could fit, and how.

However, we don’t always agree, so an architect would be a good referee.  We don’t know about local planning laws, and an architect will.  We don’t know about clever new ways to get light into a house or great new windows that would suit the house, and the architect should.  And some things we just can’t work out… like where to put the loo so it can be accessed from the pool easily without being in the middle of the kitchen.  And finally, it might help us to avoid costly errors… putting in underfloor heating then needing to dig half of it up.

We’ve had to postpone once already as Ian didn’t get back from Dubai in time (and didn’t want me to get my ideas in first?) but are hoping to meet him next week.  Hooray.