“Graeme has crafted all these lovely little touches we don't realise are there until we use them. Stunning details we’d never get in a house that hadn't been designed by someone who really knows what they’re doing.”

“With some architects, it’s their way or the highway. But Graeme describes himself as the builder's architect. He respects our skills, and says, if you've got a better way to do it, you tell me. That openness was at the forefront throughout our project. There was a lot of collaboration and give and take.”

We didn’t want a cookie cutter house. We'd come from an architect designed house. We weren’t willing to compromise on something that wasn't bespoke. This is our forever home. We’re not planning to go anywhere, so we wanted to get it right.

“Our new home has lived up to our expectations and the vision on Graeme’s drawing board. We can say with confidence, we don’t look at anything in our house and wish we’d done it differently. That reflects the care we took with Graeme over the whole exercise. The whole process was unhurried. It's been golden. We can’t recommend Graeme enough. As an architect and a project manager, and everything that goes with that, he's simply great.”

“If you work with an architect, make the most of them. There's no point engaging a professional unless you're going to listen. We could have hired a draughtsman to translate our ideas into drawings, but we wanted to be challenged. Working with Graeme has brought unexpected pleasures.”