Good news on the Geotech Report and a very good day for Brad and Trisha and the development team! The news is good for two reasons: the first is because we will now be able to put the client’s full budget towards the showhome from the slab up, and secondly, we will have the option of designing the entire home on one level if we so choose. If we had required pilings we may have been forced to look at a two storey home in order to minimize foundations costs!
More options = a happy design/build team
Tami, Louis and Neil will now spend the next few hours gathering information on The Watt’s lifestyle, their wish-list for home features, examining potential room sizes, room relationships, and possible combinations. The idea is to clearly understand how the family lives, what they like and dislike about their present home, what the future looks like for additional children, visitors or live-in help, entertaining etc. We will have to closely examine the site, the location of sun and shade at various times of the day, the prevailing breezes and the views to all sides of the lot.
From this information we will Icon will generate the first of a series of hand-drawn sketches as we try to get closer and closer with each sketch to the client’s vision of the perfect waterfront home. The home design must be one that meets the optimum size, the optimum quality of finishes and the look that says “this is who we are!”, making all of that still meet the budget target that we have agreed on as a team at the outset of the project. It takes collaboration, trust, communication and creativity from every member of the client/designer/builder team to make it happen.
