The design!

Following the death of my mum in March 2008 and the completion of the administration her estate we were ready to go ahead with the move to Denmark.

Michelle and I knew pretty well exactly what we wanted in a house that would suit the range of our interests.

It is a basic and cost effective ( budget $100,000 ) design constituting a large space at one end for her ( the artist ) and a large space at the other end for him ( the musician ) with a bit in the middle to share.

Here is one of the sketches that Michelle made showing a design with a walkway between the rest of the house and her studio.

One of our surf buddies Pete Jongen is an architect and he had mentioned that, incredibly generously, he would be interested in drawing up a design for us based on our requirements in return for the creation, development and ongoing maintenance of his design studios website.

We took our little sketches around and he quickly roughed out some designs with a massive deck as shown in the image below which was something I really wanted.

So pleased with what he had proposed we left him to it and a few weeks later this is what he had come up with.

And so the building odyssey commenced!