Damn the architect
Having weighed up the pros and cons over the past few months of employing an architect in a ‘full service’ capacity we’ve decided to go it alone.
It’s not been an easy decision and is at least in part driven by the fact that I’ve not managed to find anyone who is able to offer this type of service in the locality of the barn. That meant that travel expenses were likely to be a sizeable cost and time-on-site would be minimal.
These may well be famous last words, but I resent the potential cost and loss of control that a third party managing the project may mean.
So we’ve done away with the architect and gone green….
If you enjoyed that post, then read these…
Brambling
With a big shed to convert into habitable accommodation, you’d think we’d have plenty to do without gardening.
Main bedroom ‘suite’…
Please excuse the slightly pompous title to this post – guess I’m pretty happy with way this aspect of the conversion has gone.
Building Progress ~ September 2008
As Autumn (and an end to lime pointing) approaches things have come on at the barn.
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January 5th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
[...] to focus on my fumbling attempts at labouring, carpentry, landscape gardening and so on. But having decided against an architect and / or project manager way back at the start of converting the barn I’ve taken on the [...]