Every view is drawn from the same centimetre model: read it, walk it, see it, and build it.
As built, Andrew's Proposal 1, Rev 3.1 and Rev 4 to scale, with every survey dimension.
As built, Proposal 1, open kitchen or open plan; furnished or empty; porcelain or wood floors; with the real sun on any day. True size on screen, or in a VR headset.
Path-traced views of the main spaces, by day and by night.
Your requirements, lighting, power and data, elevations, schedules.
What each space does, and why it's drawn the way it is. The photoreal views are on the Renders page.
You step straight into the dining area. The lobby on your left hides behind a flush door and takes the coats, shoes, keys and the electricity board, so nothing clutters the way in.
Both kitchen walls come down, so the kitchen joins the living spaces. An L-shaped fluted-glass screen in oak frames slides out to close it when you cook something loud or messy.
The everyday room sits in the garden bay, a step from the lawn. The oak panel wall from your video closes it off from the reception when the kids are up and guests are over.
The hosting room: two sofas facing across a travertine table, the garden door beside them, and the whole of the open plan in view. With the panels open, 20 to 30 guests move freely.
One room for both children for the next ten years: a toddler bed and a cot now, two beds and two desks later, and a timber deck outside the sliding door.
A calm room with its own door to a private gravel courtyard, the dressing room and bath behind.
The garden is designed for kids and for guests: a pergola terrace at floor level with an outdoor lounge, dining for 10 and an outdoor kitchen, a play lawn, and tall screen hedges against the blocks that overlook it.
Seven steps from the concrete shell to moving in. We finish each one together before the next.
What I need from you to keep going. I'll tick each one off here when it's in.
The photoreal renders and the 360° tour stay on hold until you've picked it, so they show what you'll actually live with.
What they allow for the pergola or motorised shades, and for the boundary: the height, the fins and the wall. The boundary design depends on their answer.
Your household, must-haves and style photos; the architect's as-built plan and the site video, read and redrawn in centimetres.
Where every room, wall, door and big piece of furniture goes. Three options to compare: Andrew's Proposal 1 (28 Sep), Rev 3.1 (open kitchen with a glass screen) and Rev 4 (fully open plan, from the original drawing). Your walkthrough feedback closes it.
The style from your 82 references: warm white, light oak, travertine, sage and brushed brass. Samples once you lean one way.
Kitchen, bathrooms, joinery, lighting plan, flooring, ceilings, and the furniture layout with real dimensions.
An interactive 3D model of the apartment that you can orbit and walk through in your browser, with materials applied, plus a few perspective images per room. The model is accurate and good enough to make decisions from. The final photoreal renders and the 360° tour come once the layout is final and your real furniture is chosen.
Dimensioned plans, electrical and lighting points, finish schedules, and a shopping and specification list your contractor can quote from.
The works on site, in the order they have to happen, from the shell to furnishing and moving in. Every phase is in Finishing phases.
About 7½ months from approval to moving in, for one main contractor. Messy, wet and hidden work comes first, finishes and furniture last. The long-lead items are ordered early so they arrive when the site is ready. Tap a phase for what happens and why it sits there.
Compound approval for the works and the garden shade; the structural engineer's sign-off to remove the kitchen walls; the final layout and a contractor quote from the specification list. Before anything is touched
Protect the entrance and the building lobby, then take down the kitchen walls and the maid's WC walls and clear the rubble. First on site
Block walls for the utility, nanny's room and lobby; niches for the TV wall and the key cabinet; lintels, shutter-box recesses and frames for the hidden door. Before any pipe or cable goes in
Electrical conduits and boxes, data, camera and intercom cables to the lobby cabinet; water supply and drains; AC copper and condensate lines; the hood duct; cables for the shutter and shade motors. Everything that disappears behind plaster
Wall plaster and corner beads; floor screed to level; waterproofing and flood tests in the bathrooms, the utility and the terrace. Wet trades, done once
Levels and drainage, terrace base and paving, deck frames, pergola or shade footings, the outdoor-kitchen base, irrigation sleeves and garden lighting cables. Heavy work before finished floors
Gypsum ceilings and bulkheads, the LED cove pockets and access hatches; hidden ducted AC units hung and tested before the ceilings close. AC units ordered: weeks 7–11. After first fix, before tiling
Bathroom walls and floors, the porcelain across the living areas (unless you choose oak throughout), thresholds and window sills. Hard floors before paint
The new aluminium frames and glass, roller shutters and their motors; door frames and the flush hidden door; the track for the fluted-glass screen if you choose the open kitchen. Frames, glass and shutters made to measure: weeks 9–17. Frames before the last coat of paint
Filler, primer and two coats everywhere; ceilings first, then walls. Before wood floors and joinery
Laid in the bedrooms and the office, or in every dry room if you choose wood throughout, then covered and protected. Oak ordered: weeks 16–20. After paint, before joinery
Kitchen and island, wardrobes, the lobby and utility cabinets, the TV slat wall, the desk and shelves. Worktops are templated on site, then fitted. Kitchen and joinery made: weeks 13–22. The longest lead time
Switches and sockets, light fittings and LED strips, sanitaryware and taps, the appliances, the Wi-Fi access points, cameras and intercom; the lighting scenes programmed. Everything you touch
The last coat, and touch-ups after the joiners and electricians have finished. After all trades leave
The pergola or the motorised shades, the outdoor kitchen, the decks, the screen hedges and the planting we design together, then irrigation testing. Pergola or shades made: weeks 18–24. Plants go in last
A room-by-room check against the drawings, fixes, then a professional deep clean. Before any furniture arrives
Curtain tracks and curtains, rugs, loose furniture, lamps, art and styling; the piano moved in. Furniture ordered: weeks 20–29. Deliveries booked around the clean
Keys, manuals and warranties handed over, and the lighting and Wi-Fi set up the way you like them. Welcome home
An estimate to plan with, not a contract: approvals, the contractor's team size and the joiner's queue move it by a few weeks either way. The orange bars are the orders that set the pace. Place them on time and the site never waits.
Drawn from your 82 references.
The photos and videos you've sent, which the palette and the design come from, grouped by what they show. The second batch (30 Sep) adds your friends' house, the nine-option boards for details like pulls, skirtings, ceilings and worktop edges, and videos of hidden doors and clever storage. Moving clips play on their own; for the other videos I kept one still. Pick a group, and tap a photo to see it large.