Watch you don't hit your head!

So for most of my adult life I have enjoyed a height of 6’4”.

I am sure this will reduce over time, as I am aiming for living life to the full until I am at least over 100 years old, this height may over time reduce a lot - even the great Clint Eastwood who just turned 93 is withering.

However my stature is currently intact and over the years has meant in most homes I can touch the ceiling , change light bulbs, repaint ceilings….all without the aid of a ladder.

As a kid I grew up, in first an older traditional type house with high ceilings and then before I started school, we moved to a ‘newly built’ modern home, with the everywhere used , value engineered 2.4m ceilings.

The new was good we had more rooms, my Grannie got her house back, and we now had the smallest garden, which pleased my Dad as he was well fed up mowing the expansive lawn my Grannie’s house had, because her mower was manual!

A s the teenage years advanced along with my height, I began to notice the available legroom in each room was reducing, as were the ceilings!

Generally in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England, new homes for the masses, whether to rent or buy, are tiny by comparison to Australia, parts of Europe and America.

We actually build the smallest homes in Europe.

Why is that?

Simple , minimum 20% profit for the developer.

With my own buildings my goal is to provide what I would be happy to live in.

Like it or not is everyone’s choice. I am sure my tribe will.

What everyone will like is our dimensions.

I strongly believe in higher ceilings and larger rooms. Space does matter.

Especially in our 4-6week summer climate, we are indoors a lot, keeping dry, and warm.

Raising our families , being with significant others, progressing our lives, balancing work and life, making ends meet.

The plasterboard sheet is to blame for a lot of it.

At 1200mm by 2400mm drives the mass market. Lengths of timber come in 2400mm, door sizes are set so meanly, that at 6’4” tall you can just pass through them.

When you visit one off homes or the historic apartments in Paris is a good example, you feel the better dimension, it is better for you, living like that is better.

You see proportion and the luxury of space and light, which costs little to provide, yet delivers qualities and value way beyond its cost to create.

Marry that with proper energy efficient designs that give almost zero energy bills , that is a nice way to live.

I want ceilings in my home that I at 6’4”, need a ladder to reach, and my tenants will have that.

Going the extra mile, requires a better way, renters pay more than homeowners. So in my book, they will always receive more.

By controlling the whole process, the budget and ultimately owning and operating the buildings I create, allows that to happen.

Enough is plenty, plenty is enough.