Scope & Investment Guide
Budget clarity before design commitments.
The Scope & Investment Guide is a structured financial and practical briefing prepared around your project type. It exists so you can make grounded decisions about scope and investment before committing to design.
The Guide
What the guide includes
Likely investment bands
Realistic cost ranges for your project type, whether kitchen-only, extension, or full ground-floor transformation, based on scope, specification and site conditions.
Key budget variables
The specific factors that will move the number: structural complexity, kitchen specification level, site access, planning requirements, and finish quality.
Decision framework
The questions that need to be answered before a fixed-price contract can exist. Designed to help you prioritise scope before design commitments are made.
Process roadmap
A clear outline of the stages from first conversation to fixed-price contract, so you understand what happens, when, and what each stage costs.
Why This Matters
Why this matters
Most homeowners enter the design process without a clear understanding of what their project is likely to cost. They commission drawings, choose a kitchen, select finishes, and then discover the total is significantly beyond their budget. The redesign, the value engineering and the compromises that follow waste time, money and enthusiasm.
The Scope & Investment Guide reverses that sequence. It establishes a grounded financial framework first, so every subsequent decision, whether architectural, structural or material, is made within a known envelope. It is not a quote. It is not a commitment. It is clarity.
Investment
Indicative investment ranges
These ranges reflect typical project scopes. Every project is individual. The Scope & Investment Guide provides clarity specific to your circumstances.
Kitchen-only transformation
Layout, kitchen design, installation, flooring, lighting, finishes
From £40,000
Kitchen extension
Extension, structure, kitchen, glazing, heating, finishes
From £80,000
Open-plan reconfiguration
Structural opening, kitchen, living space, flooring, lighting
From £60,000
Full ground-floor transformation
Kitchen, living, utility, flooring, lighting, landscaping, full coordination
From £150,000