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(Picture: Juliet Murphy)Picking an architect for an extension project is a high- pressure affair. You’re going to be entrusting them with an awful lot of money and spending a lot of quality time in your home together — along with their extended family of contractors. It’s like a business and romantic partnership rolled into one. Do you go with your head or with your heart? Are you swayed by looks or are you running a full background check?
Kate, 42, and Matt, 44, Robinson took a double-pronged approach when it came to picking architect Peter Morris to extend their end-of-terrace, four-bedroom Victorian home on Grenville Road, N19, within their budget of £200,000. The couple, a responsible business specialist and head of strategy for a development finance investment firm respectively, liked the aesthetic of his previous projects and they were also assiduous in checking his references.
