Design Options

Designing your own home can be a most enjoyable and rewarding project. Getting your ideas into pictures and drawings can be achieved on a number of different levels. Initially, you need to keep visual images of what you like and want in a folder. This can be clippings from magazines or websites saved as favourites. Over time quite a few ideas will be gathered and some will fall by the wayside. At some point however you are going to make some decisions if your project is going to get off the ground. What do you do next?

Well, you can start designing a home with some software or you could go directly to a professional to put your ideas into a more formal presentation ready for submission to the planning office. Here are some recommendations.

Search the National Database of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Over 3000 practises.

Go directly to the RICS search facility to find a chartered surveyor in your area.

Professional Bodies

The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists.Link to Directory from here.

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