An Ideal way to kick-start your home improvement project

At Home Design Services we believe that your potential home improvement project warrants more than the usual short home visit and survey. Building projects are often an expensive investment and we believe that it is vital to obtain the right design to fully meet your requirements, to maximise value and to be within your budget.

Our home design consultations involves a 3-5 hour visit to your home and will include:
 

• Pre-consultation research and feasibility checks
• Brainstorming session to fully explore your ideas
• A measured survey of your home
• Colour scaled hand drawn sketches
• Feasibility report and project appraisal
• Your full involvement in the design process
• Advice and information

The consultation has been designed to provide our customers with a set of preliminary sketch drawings to illustrate what is achievable, highlight any potential complications and detail the regulatory processes without the need for a full set of expensive architectural drawings.

Our Home Design Consultations start from just £250.00. You are under no obligation to progress so if you decide not to proceed then all you pay is the consultation fee. Weekend appointments are available at no extra cost.

We have many years experience working with most southeast and London local authorities. We carry out detailed planning reasearch for each and every project to ensure that our designs comply with council standards. We have an impressive 95% success rate in obtaining planning permission for our customers.

Our detailed design service includes:
 

• Professionally produced accurate CAD planning drawings
• Free revisions until you are 100% happy
• Ordnance Survey map
• Planning application, forms and letters
• Council design revisions if required
• Free re-submission if refused

Detailed drawings for building regulations, tendering and construction are also included in our detailed design stage.

Our detailed drawing service includes:
 

• Sections, details and specification notes
• Building regulation application, forms and letters
• Architectural building regulation revisions as required
• Liaising with engineers and other consultants
   

Our planning & building regulations design service, including all of the above, starts from just £900.00. This includes planning AND detailed building regulations drawings for tendering and construction purposes.

We offer a complete hand-holding service which includes all application processes for planning and building control, help and guidance for other statuatory requirements and useful guides and information throughout.

At Home Design Services we do not abandon you once all the drawings have been produced and approvals granted. We provide a free comprehensive set of useful information packs including:

• Party Wall obligations
• Water Authority regulations
• Approved documents
• CDM requirements
• Tendering guidelines
• How to find and employ a builder

If you have any questions or queries with any of the above issues then you are welcome to contact us for help and advice.

It is not uncommon to experience problems during construction. Most of them can be resolved by the builder and building control officer. However, on occasion the problem could be more complex and professional advice may be required. We are happy to help in these situations whether it is just some advice that is required, liaising with authorities or revising drawings. Also your builder is also welcome to contact us should they have any questions regarding the design or drawings. 

It is not always possible to help but we will always try our best. Most of the time, with a few exceptions, we offer this service free of charge.

We also offer more detailed input where perhaps a site visit may be required. This can be used as required and we charge a simple hourly rate fee for such work.