You are a Nigerian living outside Nigeria who wants to build back home but you can’t monitor the process yourself. There have been stories of fraud, poor supervision, wasted funds from your friends; it was probably your previous experience. Now you seek control, trust, visibility; you desire someone on ground who can execute properly, keeping you abreast all the way through with digital coordination.

You probably found your way around it, winging it, not using a qualified designer for your project, poor supervision, etc., and it turned out awful. Poor ventilation, no daylighting, wasted spaces or an ugly approach view of the house. Let’s not stress the matter any further because you already paid the price of a bad design. Now you seek to redeem yourself, to prove that you have learned from your experience.

Wow!!! I can feel your satisfaction from here. You desire a second home, probably for vacation, a different location or for investment or elevated lifestyle and aesthetics. We may have worked with you, or you worked with another Architect but, you understand how an Architect works now.

You have bought land or are almost ready to start. You want a functional home and are realizing how complex building can be. I know what you are worried about; you don’t want to waste money or end up with an ugly or unliveable design. You are also afraid of “builders who cut corners,” (unless you are looking for knock-offs).

You want to build someday or maybe buy an already built one. You are just taking the time to gather funds, ideas, inspirations or you are still figuring out the kind of life you want and the idea of the building that suits that lifestyle.

You probably have seen engineers, builders and draftsmen only and therefore consider “architects” people the rich should work with. Or you didn’t know that architects are the real designers behind most of what you see. You have always believed that engineers do the design because you mostly interact with them on site.