Why should I hire an architect

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Hiring an architect is an important decision when deciding how to design your self build home.

Here, Hugo Tugman, self build design expert, provides his analysis of why architects have a role to play.

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I understand the emotion that makes people think I know what I want, I just want the ability to draw it, show me how to, but the work we do as architects, we may spend a fair bit of time drawing, but its not the technique of drawing that takes up our time or our attention its actually what were doing and its understanding that its not just about how it looks, its not just about how its arranged its about this layer upon layer upon layer of decisions all of which affect each other and if you make the wrong decision here, it affects something right down here which you havent thought about

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