One of our current projects in construction is the rear extension to a home in Lichfield in Staffordshire. Designed by ourselves at Blair Gratton Architects, the project has been on site for several weeks now and is beginning to take shape.
The Clients have employed us as their Architect in order to administer the building contract with their chosen contractor. This provides independent professional input at all stages of the project, rather than a direct relationship. It also ensures that the quality of the build is upheld and prevents shortcuts from being made during the process.
The job of us as Architects is to problem solve, maintain quality, confirm payment values, and issue instructions.
We have taken it through all RIBA Stages of Work so far, from survey, through to the planning process and achieving approval, followed by building regulations approval.
The existing lounge and kitchen sit at the back of the house. The rear extension intends to link both – with the removal of the rear wall of the house on the ground floor through use of structural steelwork – to create a large open-plan kitchen-dining-living space. Alterations to the position of walls will improve the flow of the ground floor.
The couple have their minds on interior design and the high ceiling in the new extension will allow for a feature light fitting.
There is to be a new sliding-folding aluminium door-set and wide aluminium window to the rear garden, and, complimented by the 2 Large lantern lights above, natural light will be brought into the room in abundance