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Clients Often Come With a Solution, Not the Need One thing really crystallised for me at Grand Designs this year. I spent two days speaking to homeowners about their projects and, honestly, almost everyone came with a solution already fixed in their head. “I want a basement.” “We want to open this up.” “We want a rear extension to here.” “We want the kitchen over there and bifolds here.” And there is nothing wrong with that in itself. It is their house, their money and usuall
Most residential projects don’t fail suddenly—they drift. Without a clear, written brief linking scope to budget, small decisions quietly add up. By tender, the design is fixed, costs overrun, and tensions rise. A brief doesn’t need to be perfect—it needs to be explicit, aligned, and real.
