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Home Design by Front Row

The Best Way to Design Your Home Renovation or Extension

Using Front Row's design services will ensure that the design for your home renovation or extension will fit your needs and your budget.

Unlike most design and renovation firms, Front Row is not tied to a particular product or style. Instead, we follow a unique design process to identify your current and future needs, your style choices and the budget you must work to. The result is a design:-

• to fit your needs
• to suit your budget
• to suit a modern family lifestyle
• which preserves the charm/character of the original building

Front Row are skilled designers of extensions and renovations that take advantage of the character and style of traditional Sydney housing.

It's about using common sense to get the most out of the existing building by clever reutilisation of spaces and cost effective building techniques whilst balancing the issues of environment, family space, resale value, lifestyle and cost.

About Home Design Firms

Most home designers and renovators have a signature style which they have developed over time. This means you engage one of them with a style close to what you like and get them to tailor it to fit your needs.

In this scenario, the design process is one of making an existing idea fit your needs. Many renovation companies have a similar approach which is often evident in the name eg "The Attic Converters" or "Add a Storey" etc. The problem with all of these is that they are essentially modifying a standard product so the success of the process relies heavily on the assumption that their product was the right one for you to start with and secondly that your needs are close enough to those the designer originally had in mind to allow the modifications to reach the target. If you’re not sure exactly what you need / want in the first instance getting this choice right can be really difficult.

How Front Row is Different

Our design process is not based on a particular product or style, rather it commences with a thorough needs analysis which delivers a set of criteria by which we can measure the success of the project. This is a collaborative process which identifies

• "what do you need now?",
• "what will you need in the future?",
• "how would you like it to feel?" and
• "what is the whole of project budget?"

Success Criteria

One of the main success criteria is budget. We design to meet our clients' budget and always work to a whole of project budget. We don’t get to the end and say "oh we didn’t allow for a kitchen, that’s not part of our contract." We involve our clients deeply in setting out their needs in functional terms rather than in actual design elements. We work with them in a collaborative design process to match needs, wants, likes and dislikes and bring it all under the budget.

What to Do Next

To get a picture of the process, have a look at our Design Flow diagram.

If you would like to know more about Front Row's Design Services, please contact us via our contact form or email Front Row directly or telephone us at 02 9416 3194 and we will be happy to assist you in whatever way we can.

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