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Creating your welcoming and sustainable home

Our team of dynamic, experienced architects and technologists have decades of local experience providing a friendly and personal service to homeowners, while enhancing our beautiful urban and rural landscapes.

Future proofed design

We care that your home will be everything you need now, and in the future. With our Passivhaus accreditation, we can help keep your home warm and comfortable with reduced energy bills. We also specialise in design within conservation areas, repairing historic fabric and navigating listed building consent.

The priority for our bespoke, inventive designs is to bring you more enjoyment every day by:

  • creating spaces where everyone can come together for celebrations
  • providing room for growing families and guests
  • including clever storage to minimise clutter
  • maximising light and views
  • embracing the latest techniques for energy efficiency and sustainability

By ensuring alterations, extensions and new builds deliver welcoming and sustainable places to live, we can all be proud to pass them on to future generations.

Friendly support

For many homeowners, adapting or building a new property will be the most important project they ever undertake, and we want you to find it is a rewarding experience. We believe good architecture is the result of good relationships and find that face-to-face meetings are the key to us understanding your aspirations. Our role is to listen carefully and provide a friendly, personal and straightforward service that achieves your vision within your budget.

We work with you to produce an exciting and practical design to the highest standards, then manage the applications for any required planning permission and building warrant. If you wish, we can refine your design right down to the internal finishes and fittings. From there, we support you on site through the whole process until the last trade van leaves and building control approve your new space.

Meet the team

Straightforward approach

Every project is unique, but most involve the following eight stages.
Preparing the brief
Having established your project is feasible, we meet at your home to discuss your ideas and budget and answer any queries before preparing the brief.
Initial design
A survey of your home or site is undertaken by us and/or any other specialists if required. We will share two or three initial concepts using sketches, CAD software and models so you can imagine the space.
Planning application
We will work collaboratively to finalise a more detailed design, before making a planning application to the local authority, if required. It may take around two months for them to respond.
Building warrant application
After adding technical detail, such as thermal performance and structural design, we manage correspondence with the local authority to reach approval. This typically takes four to six months.
Construction documentation
Once consents are obtained, further information such as materials and assembly details are added to enable accurate estimates of construction costs.
Tender administration
We assist with selecting a shortlist of trusted contractors, compare costs and approaches, then handle communications to appoint the successful contractor and confirm a clear timeline for the work.
Contract administration
This can be the most daunting part of the project. We will monitor progress, carefully manage your budget, advise on and certify payments, respond to queries and instruct any changes.
Post completion work
Most contracts allow a 12-month rectification period in which any issues/defects can be identified and we will remain involved to ensure these are resolved.
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How can we help you?

If you're a homeowner planning a project in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, the Scottish Borders or Northumberland, we'd be delighted to discuss your ideas.
Get in touch

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Light Open Extension

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Light Open Extension

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CSY Architects Ltd. Registered in Scotland, SC195183 at offices 1 Wilderhaugh, Galashiels TD1 1QJ
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LOTHIANS

102 High Street
Dalkeith, EH22 1HZ
0131 663 9735

FIFE

108 St Clair Street
Kirkcaldy, KY1 2BD
01592 205761

BORDERS

1 Wilderhaugh
Galashiels, TD1 1QJ
01896 753077

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9 West Street
Berwick, TD15 1AS
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