Is this the crisis?

OK, so as you may have gathered from reading this blog we haven't exactly been inundated by crisis in the development of this project. I know it's still early days but all seems to be plain sailing.

Or it was until Tuesday when we had the site visit. Mr Architect was on holiday so we had Mr Other Architect there, his partner. It's a bit like changing surgeons mid way through an operation, to use an over-dramatic metaphor, but you did get the feeling he wasn't quite all there with us. Comments like "so you're having a glass roof" left one with the feeling that an extra 15 mins reading the plans would have been a help.

So, part way through the visit he mentions, almost casually, that the contractor making the windows and doors for the extension (the focal point ofthe whole project) says he can't guarantee the doors won't warp as they're 2.3m tall, so we need to reduce their height to 2.1m. He starts talking about a 20cm strip of glass going in at the top. I start to burble about raising the step height he we keep the same lines at the top, but Rachel steps in sensibly and suggests he draws something up for us to consider.

When we got the designs by email I was not impressed and dived into misery. None of the revised designs looked any good to me










Anyway, Rachel decided to call him up and say we weren't happy as we appeared to be loosing the design concept we signed up for, and asked if it wasn't possible to try again or ask someone else.

Yes, he said. No problem. Huh? So why did we get asked to change it in the first place? Hmmm.