Hello again. Apologies my ‘weekly’ blog has not quite eventuated to date. Covid 19, staff working remotely, general disruption from the same have all come in the way. I will endeavour to be more ‘weekly’ from here out :)

As you can see from the supporting image, framing is well underway. Things seem to happen very quickly at this stage of the build when the superstructure goes up. This means, the main skeleton for the house, being slab, steel frame, timber infill and main carpentry are almost finished. We have made good progress over the last two weeks to get to this point with only a small amount of base framing to be completed before we move into services rough in and detail.

Once the frame is up you start to gain a real sense of the scale of your home and the relationship of the spaces for the first time in 3 dimensions. Particularly in the case of this build our large statement gable formed living pavilions are now very apparent.

I have never been able to explain this phenomena, but it seems the more you start to enclose a space the larger it begins to feel. I remember this from the first project we ever completed. Post slab pour myself and the clients stood around noting, on my, this is not big enough for our needs! Stressful thoughts to have as the designer of an large family home let me say…

However as the build progressed the space magically seemed to expand and the same thing has happened project after project. Once the internal linings are in is when you really gain a proper sense of human scale, and you’ll find once furnished the spaces tend to feel larger again!

So, if you are renovating or building at present and are wondering if the home was designed large enough, give it some time and I think you’ll be presently surprised that your architect has thought through the scale and proportions of your home from the beginning of the design process. Until next week!